[BC] German Radio Spying 1938

[Sid Schweiger]

Jeff Carter wrote:  "Herr Victim would say, Nein! It's the neighbors! I heard them myself!

"Then you've got probable cause to bust down the neighbor's door.  Wait, no, probable cause is an American construct.  I'm mixing up my fascist regimes, sorry."

In Nazi Germany, the word of a neighbor was what Gestapo agents lived for.  In the BBC documentary "The Nazis: A Warning from History" the files of the Gestapo tell the story of a middle-aged woman who lived by herself in a small town.  One of her neighbors, a teenaged girl, wrote several letters to the local Gestapo office, insinuating that the woman was a lesbian and had Jewish friends.  Without even a pretext of finding any proof of these allegations, the woman was arrested and deported to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp, where she died.