Historical Association Public Lecture by Dr Claire Hubbard: Hitler’s Secret Agents: The Gestapo Spy Network, 1933-45

The next Historical Association talk will be delivered by Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall (Bishop Grosseteste University): Hitler’s Secret Agents: The Gestapo Spy Network, 1933-45
Time and location: Monday 2nd March at 6.15pm (refreshments from 5.45pm) on, in NDH0020, Nicola de la Haye Building, University of Lincoln.

Subject overview: The contemporary belief of a Gestapo spy on every corner that, in turn, helped create a veil of fear over the German people has been too easily dismissed by scholars on the grounds that the infamous Nazi state secret police, the Gestapo, did not possess an ‘army of spies’. The image of the Gestapo as a ‘big brother’ figure with eyes and ears everywhere has been discredited by historians as a Nazi fabrication. This talk will explore the nature of policing within Nazi Germany by demonstrating that there was a regular presence of paid informers alongside denouncers, reinforcing the proactive nature of the Gestapo in repressing dissent within and outside Nazi Germany.

Biography: Dr Claire M. Hubbard-Hall is a Senior Lecturer in History at Bishop Grosseteste University where she is the Programme Lead for Military History & Postgraduate Studies. Claire is an Intelligence historian who is interested in the history of espionage and secret warfare during the Second World War. You can follow her research via Twitter @spyhistory and her website www.spyhistory.co.uk

All welcome – the event is free to students and staff of the University and members of the Historical Association; £3 for non-members.A list of branch talks this year can be found on the HA website: https://www.history.org.uk/branches/resource/7057/city-of-lincoln-branch-programme