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...Strasser}} (Wife of Otto Strasser. Arrested in Berlin, 30 June 1934 by the Gestapo, tortured and held for several weeks, while pending shipment to a concentra ...dolf Diels}} (1900 - 1957. WW1 veteran, lawyer, Prussian police from 1930, Gestapo investigator of the Reichstag fire, protegé of Göring, forced from office

...|title=Winston Churchill's "Crazy Broadcast": Party, Nation, and the 1945 Gestapo Speech |journal=Journal of British Studies |volume=49 |issue=3 |date=July 2

...head of the black-shirted Schutzstaffel [[SS]] troops and of the dreaded [[Gestapo]], or German secret police. His loyalty to Hitler (until near the end), co ===Gestapo chief===

* Manvell, Roger, and Heinrich Fraenkel. ''Heinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career'' (2007)

...as under the WVHA. While security organizations such as the [[RSHA]] and [[Gestapo]] operated in the camps, they did not control them, just as the actual guar

'''Klaus Barbie''' (1913-1991) was a German Nazi who headed the [[Gestapo]] in [[Lyon]], [[France]] during the [[Second World War]], and, in 1987, wa ...drich-Wilhelm Institute. After graduating in 1934, he went to work for the Gestapo. In 1937 Barbie became a member of the Nazi party.<ref name=BoliviaWeb>{{ci

...ate seemed to be unsure what to do with him. While he had been put under [[Gestapo]] surveillance, he still was promoted to General der Artillerie ([[lieutena

He was assigned to the [[Gestapo]] in August 1939 and put in charge of counterespionage. In 1941, he and his

*[[Gestapo | The Gestapo (Secret State Police)]]

...in the Legal Division, who forwarded it to Luther. Luther sent it to the [[Gestapo]].<ref>Browning, p. 91</ref>

...atspolizeiamt''), the office of secret state police, the ancestor of the [[Gestapo]] (''Geheime Staatspolizei''), secret state police.

...-1942), added the [[Gestapo]] (1934-1936), the SIPO security police of the Gestapo and [[KRIPO]] criminal police (1936-1932), and the overall [[Reichssicherhe ...he top SA leadership on June 30-July 2, 1934, Heydrich took command of the Gestapo while remaining chief of the SD.

* ''[[This Traitor, Death]]'', 1952, also published as ''The Gestapo File'', 1971

...on", commanded the Resistance forces in Normandy. He was captured by the [[Gestapo]] but escaped, and was a trusted Gaullist member of the Free French.

...mention my proposed change here. Himmler indeed commanded the SS, but the Gestapo was not the only dreaded organization, and, in fact, was two bureaucratic l It would be as accurate to call Hitler the head of the Gestapo, since Himmler reported to Hitler. Without further clarification, especiall

...nd merciless attacks against German targets, his eventual capture by the [[Gestapo]] in [[Paris]], the ghastly tortures he undergoes at their hands, and his e

...prisoners of war (previously screened out of prisoner-of-war cages by the Gestapo) who were delivered at Auschwitz in Wehrmacht transports operated by regula

...him for four months in the prison at Bonn. He was then transferred to the Gestapo, S.A., and S.S. run Boergermoor hard labor concentration camp near Papenbur

..."secret police" or "political police" may be among the worst violators. [[Gestapo]], derived from the German (originally Prussian) "secret state police" has

...s liaising with the French maquisards. In spite of being arrested by the [[Gestapo]], she nevertheless bears the child and survives the war. The child dies no