Eric A. Johnson

Eric A. Johnson is an American historian and author who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He is a professor who has spent decades researching the mechanisms of terror, surveillance and compliance that sustained the Nazi regime. Nazi Terror examines how the Gestapo and the broader Nazi security apparatus maintained control over the German population, drawing on extensive archival research to reveal how ordinary Germans experienced, participated in and resisted the regime's machinery of repression. The book challenges simplistic narratives about Nazi Germany, showing a complex picture of terror, complicity and resistance. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Nazi Terror offers essential listening and reading for anyone who wants to understand how a modern society submitted to totalitarianism — and what that means for our understanding of authoritarianism today.