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The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. The basic Gestapo law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial review—in effect, putting it above the law. [29]
Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei (Main Office of the Security Police) was a central state police agency command office in Nazi Germany entrusted with overseeing the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police; Kripo) and the Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police; Gestapo) for the years 1936–1939.
The dramatic picture documents the moment when a Belgian woman who had been a Nazi collaborator as a Gestapo informer, and was identified before she could hide in the crowd, is publicly identified by another woman as the one who denounced her. She rushes from the crowd to do that and stands angry and defiant to her left, while the alleged ...
For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of Nazi Germany. Müller was central in the planning and execution of the Holocaust and attended the January 1942 Wannsee Conference , which formalised plans for deportation and genocide of all Jews in German-occupied Europe—The " Final Solution to ...
The Hamburg State Police Headquarters was the military district X, the superior authority of various Gestapo branch offices in northern Germany. As part of the Greater Hamburg Act , the former Prussian towns of Altona District , Wandsbek and Harburg-Wilhelmsburg were incorporated into Hamburg from April 1937 and the Gestapo offices there were ...
To this end, Himmler took command first of the Gestapo (itself developed from the Prussian Secret Police). Then on 17 June 1936 all police forces throughout Germany were united, following Adolf Hitler's appointment of Himmler as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police). [4]
Although the Gestapo had a relatively small number of personnel (32,000 in 1944), "it maximized these small resources through informants and a large number of denunciations from the local population". [29] After the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, Germany was split into West and East Germany.
As Germany's most senior policeman, Himmler had two goals; first the official goal of centralization and Gleichschaltung: reforming the German police forces after Nazi Party ideals; secondly, the unofficial goal of making the German police an adjunct of the SS, thereby increasing his power base and improving his standing among Hitler's vassals. [4]