The plague that carries people off unexpectedly echoes the reality of the occupation, in which people could be snatched from their homes by the Gestapo and imprisoned or sent to work as slave labor in German-controlled territories or simply killed.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

In late October 1938, when he was living in a rented room in the home of a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland.

LaGuardia's sister, Gemma LaGuardia Gluck ( 1881-1962 ), and brother-in-law, Herman Gluck ( a Hungarian Jew whom she met while teaching English in Europe ), were living in Hungary and were arrested by the Gestapo on 7 June 1944, when the Nazis took control of Budapest.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD: Security Service ").

The basic Gestapo law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial oversight.

The SS officer Werner Best, onetime head of legal affairs in the Gestapo, summed up this policy by saying, " As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally.

However, resistance groups and those who were in moral or political opposition to the Nazis were stalled by the fear of reprisals from the Gestapo.

However Himmler, who had been appointed Chef der Deutschen Polizei ( Chief of German Police ) by Hitler, controlled the SS, the Gestapo, the Orpo ( uniformed police ) and all investigation units.

Gestapo and Kripo had many experienced, professional policemen and investigators, who considered the SD to be an incompetent agency run by amateurs.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the SD.

He was arrested and subsequently assassinated by the Gestapo on the night of 4 January 1944 at Hørbylunde, near Silkeborg.

Angleton, later chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) counter-intelligence staff, became suspicious of Philby when he failed to pass on information relating to a British agent executed by the Gestapo in Germany.

By the time his close friends Christof and Luise Spengemann and their son Walter were arrested by the Gestapo in August 1936 the situation had clearly become perilous.

By 1933, however, the continued operation of the school was untenable ( it was raided by the Gestapo in April ), and in July of that year, Mies and the faculty voted to close the Bauhaus.

In a following scene, a British officer from the Joke Brigade ( Michael Palin ) has been taken prisoner and is being interrogated and tortured by Gestapo officers.

He was captured and shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France for his work in the French Resistance.

He was eventually captured by Vichy police and turned over to the Gestapo, which tortured and shot him in June 1944, just as the Nazis realized that the Allies were about to reconquer France ; Bloch became a national martyr after the Allied liberation.

The church was surrounded by eight hundred members of the SS and Gestapo.

The Gestapo, which would eventually become a semi-integrated part of the SS security forces, was at first a large " thorn in the side " to Himmler as the group was originally the Prussian state political police under the control of Hermann Göring and commanded by his protege Rudolf Diels.

Heinrich Müller became Gestapo Chief, Arthur Nebe, chief of the Criminal Police ( Kripo ), and the two branches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such as Otto Ohlendorf and Walter Schellenberg.

* The assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a German-born Polish Jew triggers the Kristallnacht ( The Night of Broken Glass ) held between the 9 to 10 November 1938 and carried out by the Hitler Youth, the Gestapo and the SS during which the Jewish population living in Nazi Germany and Austria were attacked – 91 Jews were murdered and 25, 000 to 30, 000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.

** 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused of being " terror fliers " by the Gestapo, arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.

** The Gestapo arrests pastor Martin Niemöller.

Ritter is assisted by a Nazi government official, SS / Gestapo Hauptsturmführer Martin Vogel ( Roy Thinnes ), who poses as official photographer.

Flesch lived in London during the 1930s, was arrested by the Gestapo in the Netherlands in 1939, was released, and died in Lucerne, Switzerland, in November 1944.

From London, he was parachuted into occupied France where he worked with the French Resistance, but was captured by the Gestapo with members of the Robert Benoist group and shipped to Buchenwald concentration camp on August 27, 1944.

He fled with his mother to London after his father was murdered by the Gestapo after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany.

D ' Estienne d ' Orves decided to lay down Marty at the next trip to London but, two days later, the Gestapo stormed the house and arrested him.

Kit gets a message to London to confirm Matty's capture, and plans to break Matty out of Gestapo headquarters, with the help of Maurice and the resistance.

and this first section was somehow preserved ( there are always these annoying little mysteries about the actual facts of Malraux's life ) when the Gestapo destroyed the rest.

* 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.

* 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

In 1933, the Gestapo closed down the Berlin school.

Mies protested the decision, eventually speaking to the head of the Gestapo, who agreed to allow the school to re-open.

* Schultheis, Herbert / Wahler, Isaac E .: Bilder und Akten der Gestapo Wuerzburg ueber die Judendeportationen 1941 – 1943.

The Gestapo (; abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, " Secret State Police ") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.

On 26 April 1933, Göring merged the two units as the Gestapo.

Göring himself took over the Gestapo in 1934 and urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany.

Göring, concerned that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the Sturmabteilung ( SA ), handed over its control to Himmler on 20 April 1934.

The Gestapo became a national state agency rather than a Prussian state agency.

Shortly thereafter, Himmler created the Kriminalpolizei ( Kripo: Criminal Police ), merging it with the Gestapo into the Sicherheitspolizei ( SiPo: Security Police ), under Heydrich's command.

Heinrich Müller was at that time the Gestapo operations chief.

1939 photograph ; shown from left to right are Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller ( Gestapo ) | Heinrich Müller.

The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany.

The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws.

The Gestapo became Amt IV ( Department IV ) of RSHA and Müller became the Gestapo Chief, with Heydrich as his immediate superior.