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Gestapo: see secret police.

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Gestapo

 in full Geheime Staatspolizei

(German: “Secret State Police”) Political police of Nazi Germany. It was created by Hermann Goring in 1933 from the political and espionage units of the Prussian police and by Heinrich Himmler from the police of the remaining German states. Himmler was given command in 1934. The Gestapo operated without civil restraints, and its actions were not subject to judicial appeal. Thousands of Jews, leftists, intellectuals, trade unionists, political clergy, and homosexuals disappeared into concentration camps after being arrested by the Gestapo. In World War II the Gestapo suppressed partisan activities in the occupied territories, and a section of the Gestapo under Adolf Eichmann organized the deportation of Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

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Gestapo

the secret state police in Nazi Germany, noted for its brutal methods of interrogation

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Gestapo

German secret police under Nazi regime. [Ger. History: RHD, 595]

See : Brutality

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Gestapo

Nazi secret police. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 453]

See : Evil

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Gestapo

Nazi secret police; executors of “Final Solution.” [Ger. Hist.: Wigoder, 211]

See : Terrorism