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

The IMT also convicted three of the groups: the Nazi leadership corps, the SS ( including the SD ) and the Gestapo.

The local offices of the Gestapo, known as Stapostellen and Stapoleitstellen, answered to a local commander known as the Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (" Inspector of the Security Police and Security Service ") who, in turn, was under the dual command of Referat N of the Gestapo and also his local SS and Police Leader.

He would become the supervisor of the Gestapo and of the concentration camps, soon also of the ordinary police.

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

At around this time, after several Gestapo – NKVD Conferences, Soviet NKVD officers also conducted lengthy interrogations of 300, 000 Polish POWs in camps that were, in effect, a selection process to determine who would be killed.

Himmler also received control of the Gestapo in 1934, and, that same year, Hitler had given the SS jurisdiction over all concentration camps.

On April 20, 1934, ( as a prelude to the Night of the Long Knives ), Göring transferred the Gestapo to Himmler, who was also named chief of all German police forces outside Prussia ; two days later Himmler named Heydrich the head of the Gestapo.

The home of the most notorious Norwegian Gestapo agent, Henry Rinnan, it was also subject to harsh treatment by the occupying powers, including imposition of martial law in October 1942.

Before that, AK units carried out thousands of raids, intelligence operations, bombed hundreds of railway shipments, participated in many clashes and battles with the German police and Wehrmacht units and conducted tens of thousands of acts of sabotage against German industry The AK also conducted " punitive " operations to assassinate Gestapo officials responsible for Nazi terror.

Journalist François Chalais also criticized The Story of O, claiming the novel glorified violence ; he described the novel as " bringing the Gestapo into the boudoir ".

The AK also conducted retaliatory operations to assassinate prominent Nazi collaborators and Gestapo officials in response to Nazi terror tactics imposed on the civilian population of Poland ( notable individuals assassinated by AK include Igo Sym and Franz Kutschera ).

We can also infer from various sources that a group of Gestapo men arrived in town by taxi either on that day or the previous one.

Eliade also claimed that such contacts with the leader of a neutral country had made him the target for Gestapo surveillance, but that he had managed to communicate Salazar's advice to Mihai Antonescu, Romania's Foreign Minister.

Romania's secret police, the Securitate, also portrayed Eliade as a spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service and a former agent of the Gestapo.

He also had no control over the SS and Gestapo operations in France: the HSSPF in Paris, Carl Oberg, answered only to Himmler.

Messerschmitt, and its executive Willy Messerschmitt also occupied the famed Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in the 1920's ; the Messerschmidt aircraft factory office and the Gestapo occupied the property during the war.

In some of the books the 27th Regiment does guard duty for the Gestapo in Hamburg ( Assignment Gestapo ) and also at the military prison at Torgau ( March Battalion ).

She also led attacks on German installations and the local Gestapo HQ in Montluçon.

Kim Philby's recruiter A. Deutsch was also the spymaster of Gestapo officer Willi Lehmann, who on June 19 cabled the Barbarossa launch date to NKVD in Moscow.

The town and castle of Wewelsburg, the Reichs SS Leadership School, as also some of the castle's illustrious patrons and visitors like Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Karl Maria Willigut, SS-Obengrupenführer and chief of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( including the Gestapo and Kripo ) Reinhard Heydrich, and SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe play a prominent part in the 1990 novel The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr.

The Gestapo maintained police detective ranks which were used for all officers, both those who were and who were not concurrently SS members.

Storsveen's discipline was maintained to the very end: the false documentation found on his person meant that, even after his death, the Gestapo never realised the true identity of the man they had killed and so his organisation was able to recover from the incident.

The Gestapo also maintained a presence at the camp, in that it was the Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst that oversaw the day-to-day operations in the " Small Fortress " prison.

The classic image of the Gestapo officer, dressed in trench coat and hat, can be attributed to Gestapo offices in German cities and larger towns.

Heydrich sent a telegram that night to various SD and Gestapo offices, helping to coordinate the program with the SS, SD, Gestapo, uniformed police ( Orpo ), SA, Nazi party officials, and even the fire departments.

The RSHA was the main office in charge of SS security services and had under its command the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ), Kriminalpolizei ( Kripo ), and the Gestapo as well as several additional offices to handle finance, administration, and supply.

The term Sicherheitspolizei referred to the combined forces of the Kriminalpolizei, and the Gestapo, police and security offices.

From May to July 1940, Lange ran the Gestapo offices of Weimar and Erfurt, while working as the deputy head of the office of the Inspector of the SiPo in Kassel.

It was built in 1930s by local MP, after the outburst of II World War and defeat of Polish Army during the painful September Defensive Campaign in 1939, there were offices of Gestapo ( Secret State Police of Nazi Germany ) located in this house.

He is summoned to Gestapo offices, but cannot show a Certificate of Racial Purity, which he claims is in Grodno.

The Gestapo visited the offices of every German diocese the next day and seized all extant copies.

Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring at the meeting to formally hand over control of the Gestapo ( Berlin, 1934 ).

Heinrich Müller was at that time the Gestapo operations chief.

Eleven thousand Communists and Socialists were arrested and brought into hastily prepared concentration camps such as Kemna concentration camp, where they were at the mercy of the Gestapo, the newly established secret police force ( 9, 000 were found guilty and most executed ).

However, the inability of Himmler to persuade Hitler to cease his support of Bormann, the defection of SS generals such as Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and his powerful subordinate Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, to Bormann, soon persuaded Goebbels to align himself with the Secretary to the Führer at the end of 1944, thus accepting his subordinate position.

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

Under Prince Louis ' secret orders, the Monaco police, often at great risk to themselves, warned in advance those people whom the Gestapo planned to arrest.

The Gestapo had the authority to arrest citizens on the suspicion that they might commit a crime, and the definition of a crime was at their discretion.

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.

When Gestapo agents were at his door he turned to his wife, who was crying, and said " Don ´ t cry, we were living in fear, but from now on we will live in hope ".

From there, she was moved to Fresnes Prison in Paris and brought to Gestapo headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch for interrogation and torture.

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

** Maillé massacre: Massacre of 129 civilians ( 70 % women and children ) by the Gestapo at Maillé, Indre-et-Loire.

In early June 1944, while the Allies bombed Corfu as a diversion from the Normandy landings, the Gestapo rounded up the Jews of the city, temporarily incarcerated them at the old fort ( Palaio Frourio ), and on 10 June sent them to Auschwitz, where very few survived.

* Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, declaring SD and Gestapo to be criminal organizations

He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance, owing mainly to his role in unifying the French resistance under de Gaulle and his courage and death at the hands of the Gestapo.

René Hardy was caught and released by the Gestapo, who had followed him to the meeting at the doctor's house.

He claims that Communists did at times betray non-Communists to the Gestapo and that Aubrac has been linked to harsh actions during the purge of collaborators after the war.

On 2 July 1942, all of the remaining 81 Lidice children were handed over to the Łódź Gestapo office, who in turn had them transported to the extermination camp at Chełmno 70 kilometres away, where they were gassed to death in Magirus gas vans.

Early on the morning of 10 June 1944, Diekmann informed Weidinger at regimental headquarters that he had been approached by two members of the Milice, the French secret police that collaborated with the German Gestapo, who claimed that a Waffen SS officer was being held by the Resistance in Oradour-sur-Vayres, a nearby village.

The failure of both the assassination and the military coup d ' état which was planned to follow it led to the arrest of at least 7, 000 people by the Gestapo.

On 18 July rumours reached Stauffenberg that the Gestapo had wind of the conspiracy and that he might be arrested at any time – this was apparently not true, but there was a sense that the net was closing in and that the next opportunity to kill Hitler must be taken because there might not be another.

The fortress fired at the invaders, causing damage to the pocket battleship Lützow and sinking the heavy cruiser Blücher, with heavy German losses that included many of the armed forces, Gestapo agents, and administrative personnel who were to have occupied the Norwegian capital.

He informs the professor that he is wanted at Gestapo headquarters, but actually escorts him to the theater, which has been hastily disguised with props and costumes from the play.

At the film To Be or Not to Be, the play " The Naughty Nazis " is forbidden for the Gestapo at the beginning of the film.