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.

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.

Fearful of an internal overthrow, the forces of Himmler and the Gestapo were unleashed on the opposition.

These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.

Gestapo members Hermann Göring and Arthur Seyss-Inquart were individually convicted.

The killers of General von Schleicher were widely believed to have been Gestapo men.

Personnel assigned to these auxiliary duties were often removed from the Gestapo chain of command and fell under the authority of branches of the SS.

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

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Further, the Gestapo and the Kripo or Kriminalpolizei ( Criminal Police ) were incorporated into the SiPo or Sicherheitspolizei ( Security Police ) and considered a complementary organisation to the SD or Sicherheitsdienst ( Security Service ).

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.

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 ".

The German Army, Navy, Air Force, Nazi party, Gestapo, and German diplomats all used Enigma machines, but there were several variants.

After Hitler's takeover of the German government in 1933, political enemies of the Nazis were persecuted, and their institutions closed or destroyed ; the Gestapo began actions against Polish and Jewish students ( see: Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau ), Communists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists, arrests were even made for speaking Polish in public, in 1938 the Nazi-controlled police destroyed the Polish cultural centre.

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.

The power of the Gestapo most open to misuse was called Schutzhaft —" protective custody ", a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings.

The central administrative office of the Gestapo, responsible for card files of all personnel including all officials.

On 2 January 1937 Schwitters, wanted for an ' interview ' with the Gestapo, fled Hanover for Norway to join his son Ernst, who had already left Germany on 26 December 1936.

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

In addition to running Germany's concentration camps, the SS is well known for establishing the police state of Nazi Germany and suppressing all resistance to Adolf Hitler through the use of security forces, such as, the Gestapo.

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

* June 10 – WWII: The Gestapo massacres 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

* 3 December – In reprisal for an act of sabotage, the SS and Gestapo execute 100 tam wokers.

* July 4 – A court in Lyon sentences former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.

Meanwhile, in the convention hall, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff used his nominating speech for George McGovern to tell of the violence going on outside the convention hall, saying that “ with George McGovern we wouldn ’ t have Gestapo tactics on the streets of Chicago .” Mayor Daley responded to his remark with something that the T. V.

Eastwood was paid $ 750, 000 ( US $ in dollars ) in 1968 for the war epic Where Eagles Dare, about a World War II squad parachuting into a Gestapo stronghold in the alpine mountains.

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.

In March 1940, representatives of the Soviet NKVD and the Nazi Gestapo met for one week in Zakopane's Villa Tadeusz, to coordinate the pacification of resistance in Poland.

In 1938 it was made the intelligence organization for the State as well as for the Party, supporting the Gestapo and working with the General and Interior Administration.

The operational sections of the SD became ( department ) Amt III and for foreign intelligence, Amt VI ; the Gestapo became Amt IV and the Kripo became Amt V. Otto Ohlendorf was named the Chief of Amt III, the SD-Inland ( within Germany ); Heinrich Müller was named the Chief of Amt IV, the Gestapo ; Artur Nebe was named the Chief of Amt V ; and Walter Schellenberg became Chief of Amt VI, the SD-Ausland ( outside Germany ).

At least 1, 000 Soviet POWs were selected in 1941 – 2 by a task force of three Dresden Gestapo officers and sent to the camp for immediate liquidation by a gunshot to the back of the neck, the infamous Genickschuss.

In March 1940 representatives of the NKVD and the Gestapo met for one week in Zakopane, to coordinate the pacification of Poland ; see Gestapo – NKVD Conferences.

* Ronald Lacey as Major Arnold Toht, an interrogator for the Gestapo, who tries to torture Marion Ravenwood for the headpiece of the Staff of Ra.

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.

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.

Prior to the German invasion, in order to accomplish its own goals, the NKVD was prepared to cooperate even with such organizations as the German Gestapo.

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.

The CIA adopted some Gestapo and KGB methods such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and the use of electric shock, and researched new ideas: so-called ' no-touch ' torture involving sensory deprivation, self-inflicted pain, and psychological stress.

Although these convoys were not strictly legal, the two men in charge of the business, Kon and Heller ( who were in the service of the Gestapo and through them could run many such ventures ), paid the guards at the ghetto gate to turn a blind eye at a prearranged time and allow the carts through.

However, the Gestapo of the Third Reich effectively prevented pro-communist groups such as the FDJ from operating within the country and the group was subsequently pushed out of Nazi Germany.

During one such mission in July 1940 he was arrested by the Gestapo in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia.

Some of the residents were arrested by the Gestapo such as Rev.

In July 1936, she and her husband were visited by the Gestapo, who threatened her with arrest and deportation to a Nazi concentration camp ; they resolved to commit suicide if such a prospect became inevitable.

On Easter Sunday, 1933, he was jailed by the Gestapo for " anti-Nazi activities " after one such denunciation, but despite a ransacking of his home no evidence was found and he was released a week later.

Each Einsatzgruppe was led by SD, Gestapo and Kripo officers, and its members included recruits from the Orpo, the Waffen-SS, and local volunteers, such as militia groups.

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.

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.

Branches with personnel that normally would wear civilian attire in the Reich ( such as the Gestapo and Kripo ) were issued grey-green SS uniforms in occupied territory to avoid being mistaken for civilians.

In order to control the population, prominent citizens and intellectuals of all ethnic groups, but particularly Jews and Poles, were either closed in ghettos or transported to the execution sites such as the Gestapo prison on Pełczyńska Street, the Brygidki Prison, the former military prison at Zamarstynów and to the fields surrounding the city — in the suburb of Winniki, the Kortumówka hills and the Jewish Cemetery.

He was imprisoned by Gestapo in March 1938, and remained as such till September 1938.

However, at times such claims were made by the Bureau of Information and Propaganda for propaganda reasons ; nevertheless, executions of members of the SS and Gestapo were treated as elements of partisan warfare.

This was typically the case in security organizations, such as the Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ).

Within the Allgemeine-SS ( general-SS ), a Hauptscharführer was typically the head SS-non-commissioned officer of an SS-Sturm ( company ) or was a rank used by enlisted staff personnel assigned to an SS headquarters office or security agency ( such as the Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst ).

This officer candidate system was to ensure that future SS officers had prior enlisted experience and that there were no “ direct appointments ” in the Waffen-SS officer corps as was often the case in other SS branches such as the Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ).