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To this end, the Gestapo was "a vital component both in Nazi repression and the Holocaust." [ 142 ] Once the German armies advanced into enemy territory, they were accompanied by Einsatzgruppen staffed by officers from the Gestapo and Kripo, who usually operated in the rear areas to administer and police the occupied land. [ 143 ]
The legal foundations that the Nazi Party later used for the purpose of disarming the Jews were already laid during the Weimar Republic.Starting with the Reichsgesetz über Schusswaffen und Munition (Reich law on firearms and ammunition), enacted on 12 April 1928, weapon purchase permits were introduced, which only allowed "authorized persons" the purchase and possession of firearms.
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]
The Gestapo established Judenräte (the plural) in ghettoes to have them carry out administrative duties. Judenrein – areas from which any trace of a Jewish bloodline would have been completely eradicated. German for "cleansed of Jews". Judensau – Jew-pig, or Jew-sow. This was a long-standing German defamation against Jews that accuses them ...
The Einsatzgruppen were formed under the direction of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich and operated by the Schutzstaffel (SS) before and during World War II. [4] The Einsatzgruppen had their origins in the ad hoc Einsatzkommando formed by Heydrich to secure government buildings and documents following the Anschluss in Austria in March 1938. [5]
It was sparked by the arrest and threatened deportation to death camps of 1,800 Jewish men married to non-Jewish women. They were "full" Jews in the sense of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and the Gestapo aimed to deport as many as it could without drawing attention to the Holocaust or alienating the "racial" public. [60]
Scholars of the Holocaust have pointed to Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf” and his speeches in which he called for racial purity and said German blood was being “poisoned” by Jews. Trump ...
Workers who remained discontented risked the Gestapo's informants. Ultimately, the Nazis faced a conflict between their rearmament program, which by necessity would require material sacrifices from workers (longer hours and a lower standard of living), versus a need to maintain the confidence of the working class in the regime.