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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.
June 3, 1905: May 29, 1946: 40 years, 360 days Commandant of Dachau, January 3, 1942 – September 30, 1943. Commandant of Dachau, April 26, 1945 – April 28, 1945 Commandant of Neuengamme, April 1940 – August 1942 Commandant of Majdanek, November 1943 – May 1944. Executed by hanging Hans Kammler: August 26, 1901 1945 (assumed) 44 years ...
August Heißmeyer – An SS-Obergruppenführer, he led the SS Main Office (1935–1939) and was the Higher SS and Police Leader for Berlin and Brandenburg (1939–1945). Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff – An SA- Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei , he was Police President of Potsdam (1933–1935) and Berlin (1935–1944) where he led ...
Reinhard Heydrich was appointed chief of the SiPo and was already head of the party Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD) and the Gestapo. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1936, the Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei was founded by Himmler, in order to create a centralized command office under Nazi control of the German criminal investigation and secret state police ...
Charge 3: Committing a war crime in that you between (place) and (place) on or about (date) when members of the (place) Gestapo, in violation of the laws and usages of war were concerned in the killing of (victim(s)), both of the (force), prisoners of war. Boschert, Heinrich: x: x: D. H. Cochran Breithaupt, Walter: x: x: R. J. Bushell and B. M ...
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]
By 1943, he had been given the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and made head of SiPo's Abteilung IV (the Gestapo), stationed at Victoria Terrasse in Oslo. He was placed there on personal orders from Heinrich Himmler. [2] [4] Under the command of Heinrich Fehlis, he led the fight against the Norwegian resistance and oversaw the torture of prisoners.