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The information supplied by denunciations often led the Gestapo in determining who was arrested. [122] The popular picture of the Gestapo with its spies everywhere terrorising German society has been rejected by many historians as a myth invented after the war as a cover for German society's widespread complicity in allowing the Gestapo to work.
Rudolf Mildner (10 July 1902, Janov – unknown) was an Austrian-German SS-Standartenführer.He served as the chief of the Gestapo at Katowice and was the head of the political department at Auschwitz concentration camp, conducting "third degree" methods of interrogation from March 1941 until September 1943.
Reich Security Head Office Referat IV B4, known as RSHA IV B4 (German: Eichmannreferat IV D4 until March 1941, or Judenreferat), was a sub-department of Germany's Reich Security Head Office [a] (Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA) and the Gestapo during the Holocaust. [1] Led by SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann, RSHA IV B4 was responsible ...
In September 1939, when the Gestapo and other police organizations were consolidated under Heydrich into the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), Müller was made chief of the RSHA "Amt IV" (Office or Dept. 4): Gestapo. [33] [34] To distinguish him from another SS general named Heinrich Müller, he became known as "Gestapo Müller". [35] [36]
Einsatzkommando leader in North Africa (1942–43), SS and Gestapo commander in northwest Italy (1943–45). Arrested in Italy in 1945; escaped in 1946, fled to Syria in 1948, to Ecuador in 1949, to Chile in 1958. Extradition request by Germany denied by Chile in 1963 on the grounds of expired statute of limitations.
Hellmuth Reinhard (born Hermann Gustav Hellmuth Patzschke; 24 July 1911 – 28 October 2002) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer who is best known for being head of the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Norway from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. After the war, Reinhard evaded capture for nearly two decades before being arrested in 1964.
Gestapo and Einsatzkommando Ek2. Tried 1947 sentenced to 20 years; released 1952. Died 1 March 1960. Kunz Andreas Emil Karl Mummenthey Born 11 July 1906 at Pohl Trial sentenced to Life-commuted to 20 years. Released 18 December 1953 221.079 1934 4.302.359 Gustav Adolf Nosske: Head of Aachen Gestapo in 1935 and head of Frankfort Gestapo 1936–1941.
In March 1939, after the full occupation of Czechoslovakia, Pannwitz was transferred in July 1939 to Prague to be a Gestapo officer, assigned to Amt IV, section 2a of the Reich Security Main Office. From 1940, he there led the Gestapo Unit II g, which was responsible for investigating assassinations, illegal possession of weapons and sabotage. [6]