"The Gestapo actually had a very hard time just keeping up with all the denunciations coming in from the German people; the vast majority of their time was apparently spent going through denunciations and accusations of German citizens sent in from other German citizens. "
"...the regime's dreaded enforcer [the Gestapo] would have been seriously hampered without a considerable degree of public co-operation. This behaviour has hitherto been largely ignored or not fully understood."
"...denunciations from the population were the key link in the three-way interaction between the police, people, and policy in Nazi Germany."
"...the Gestapo was to a large extent a reactive organization..."
"...Its own observations or those of its agents initiated only 15 percent of all proceedings of the Düsseldorf Gestapo."
https://www.amazon.com/Gestapo-German-Society-Enforcing-Paperbacks/dp/0198202970
"...the regime's dreaded enforcer [the Gestapo] would have been seriously hampered without a considerable degree of public co-operation. This behaviour has hitherto been largely ignored or not fully understood."
"...denunciations from the population were the key link in the three-way interaction between the police, people, and policy in Nazi Germany."
"...the Gestapo was to a large extent a reactive organization..."
"...Its own observations or those of its agents initiated only 15 percent of all proceedings of the Düsseldorf Gestapo."
https://www.amazon.com/Gestapo-German-Society-Enforcing-Paperbacks/dp/0198202970