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Gestapo and maintained
The Gestapo also maintained offices at all Nazi concentration camps, held an office on the staff of the SS and Police Leaders, and supplied personnel as needed to formations such as the Einsatzgruppen.
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.

Gestapo and police
* 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
The Gestapo (; abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, " Secret State Police ") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.
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.
On 26 April 1933, he reorganized the force's Amt III as the Gestapo, a secret state police intended to serve the Nazi cause.
In 1936, the Gestapo was moved from the Prussian Interior Ministry to the Reich Interior Ministry and combined with the Kripo ( National criminal police ) to form the SiPo, Sicherheitspolizei ( Security Police ).
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.
The Gestapo ( secret police ) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the political opposition and persecuted the Jews, trying to force them into exile, while taking their property.
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 ).
He would become the supervisor of the Gestapo and of the concentration camps, soon also of the ordinary police.
From 1943 forward, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo ( Secret State Police ).
On 30 November 1933, Göring had established a Prussian police force, called the Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo, and appointed Rudolf Diels as its head.
Shortly thereafter, Himmler created the Kriminalpolizei ( Kripo: criminal police ), merging it with the Gestapo into the Sicherheitspolizei ( SiPo: security police ), under Heydrich's command.
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.
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.
Hermann Göring founded the Gestapo in 1933 as a Prussian police force.
The Gestapo Law, passed in 1936, gave police the right to act extra-legally.
On 26 June, Himmler reorganised the police into two groups: the Ordnungspolizei ( Orpo ), consisting of both the national uniformed police and the municipal police, and the Sicherheitspolizei ( SiPo ), consisting of the Gestapo and Kripo ( Kriminalpolizei-criminal police ).
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.
To maintain the political power and security of the Nazi party ( and later the nation ), the SS established and ran the SD ( Security service ) and took over the administration of Gestapo ( Secret state police ), Kripo ( criminal investigative police ), and the Orpo ( regular uniformed police ).

Gestapo and ranks
The Einsatzgruppen were never a standing formation ; rather they were ad hoc units recruited mostly from the ranks of the SS, the SD, and various German police forces such as the Ordnungspolizei, the Gendarmerie, the Kripo and the Gestapo, though generally the same personnel were recruited again when a unit was re-activated.

Gestapo and which
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.
In September 1939, following the outbreak of World War II, Himmler formed the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( RSHA: Reich Main Security Office ) to bring the SiPo ( which included the Gestapo and Kripo ) and the SD together under one umbrella.
On 27 September 1939 the SD and SiPo ( made up of the Gestapo and the Kripo ) were folded into the new Reich Main Security Office or SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( RSHA ), which was placed under Heydrich's control.
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.
* 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.
The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a " sister organization " with the Gestapo, which the SS had infiltrated heavily after 1934.
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.
Himmler and the Gestapo were increasingly suspicious of plots against Hitler, and specifically suspected the officers of the General Staff, which was indeed the source of many active conspiracies against Hitler's life.
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.
In Der Todesking one of the character watches a video of the fictional nazi exploitation film Vera-Todesengel der Gestapo and in Nekromantik 2, the characters go to see a movie called Mon dejeuner avec Vera which is a parody of Lois Malle's My Dinner with André.
After the Night of the Long Knives of June 30-July 2, 1934, during which the SS and Gestapo purged the " too revolutionary " leadership of the SA, the SS emerged as the dominant police power in Germany.
In eluding the Gestapo, Benjamin planned to travel to the US from neutral Portugal, which he expected to reach via fascist Spain, then ostensibly a neutral country.
The Gestapo eventually found out about him and, by April 1943, they had heard all about this " route " for the escape of wanted persons, which they assumed was part of the Resistance.
Brossolette returned to Paris for a third mission to reorganize the Parisian Resistance which was in disarray after successive Gestapo raids, in special by CND's dismantlement.
On 1 September 1939, without a formal declaration of war, Germany invaded Poland with the immediate pretext being the Gleiwitz incident, a provocation staged by the Gestapo claiming that Polish troops had allegedly committed " provocations " along the German-Polish border including house torching, which were all staged by the Germans.
Jean was one of the most sought underground leaders of France, for which the Gestapo offered a reward for his arrest.
He is summoned to Gestapo offices, but cannot show a Certificate of Racial Purity, which he claims is in Grodno.
The Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch also had an interest in Müller with regards to the Stalag Luft III murders, for which he was presumed to have responsibility given his position in the Gestapo.
In the novel, which revolves around the notion that Germany had been victorious in World War II, Globocnik ( commonly referred to by his nickname " Globus ") has risen to become a feared leader within the Gestapo.
After the July 20 plot it was used as a detention centre by the Gestapo, which on the night of April 22, 1945, murdered 16 inmates, amongst them Klaus Bonhoeffer, Rüdiger Schleicher and Albrecht Haushofer, who wrote the " Moabit Sonnets " during his arrest.
Following the failure of 20 July putsch, the Gestapo searched the room in which Goerdeler had been hiding at in the Anhalter Bahnhof hotel, in which they discovered a vast collection of documents relating to the putsch such as the text of Goerdeler's planned radio address to the German people as Chancellor.
Goerdeler was not physically tortured by the Gestapo, and freely co-operated with the Gestapo in naming names, which made him the object of a considerable hatred from the other prisoners, who saw him as a spineless rat.

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