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Gestapo: see secret police secret police, policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures.
The Nature of a Secret Police ..... Click the link for more information. . Gestapoin 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. Gestapo the secret state police in Nazi Germany, noted for its brutal methods of interrogation Gestapo German secret police under Nazi regime. [Ger. History: RHD, 595] See : Brutality Gestapo Nazi secret police. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler, 453] See : Evil Gestapo Nazi secret police; executors of “Final Solution.” [Ger. Hist.: Wigoder, 211] See : Terrorism Gestapo (abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei), secret government police in fascist Germany. The Gestapo was created in April 1933 for the purpose of physically eliminating the political opponents of fascism. It was an instrument of bloody terror in Germany and beyond its borders. Hundreds of thousands of antifascists were killed and bestially tortured by the Gestapo in numerous concentration camps and torture chambers without trial or investigation. In June 1936, Himmler was appointed imperial director of the Gestapo, which had agents in businesses, institutions, organizations, and living quarters. There was even a special division for surveillance of members of the Nazi Party. Beyond Germany’s borders agents of the Gestapo conducted military-political espionage and committed murders and kidnappings of anti-fascist activists. During World War II organs of the Gestapo committed savage reprisals against the peaceful populations of occupied territories, foreign workers, and war prisoners. After the rout of fascist Germany, the Gestapo was abolished and outlawed by Law No. 2 of the Control Council of Germany in 1945. The international military tribunal in Nuremberg recognized the Gestapo as a criminal organization in 1946. REFERENCESNiurnbergskii protsess nad glavnymi nemetskimi voennymi prestupnikami: Sb. materialov, vols. 1-7. Moscow, 1957-61.Trainin, I. P. Mekhanizm nemetsko-fashistskoi diktatury. Tashkent, 1942. Geiden, K. Istoriia germanskogo fashizma. Moscow-Leningrad, 1935. (Translated from German.) Winzer, O. 12 let bor’by protiv fashizma i voiny. Moscow, 1956. (Translated from German.) Bartel, W. Deutschland in der Zeit der faschistischen Diktatur 1933-1945. Berlin, 1956. V. D. KUL’BAKIN How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | During the Nazi occupation Backenroth built up mutual trust with the Gestapo and set up a vast project that occupied hundreds of Jews clustered at Drohobych and its vicinity, saving many of them from extermination. The jackbooted German delegation - Admiral von Friedeburg, the army's General Kinzel and Major Friedl of the Gestapo - had tried to negotiate terms on May 3. It is amusing to read about the educational efforts of the mice to build the vocabularies of Kitten and Peep, and the random species sampler encounters its share of challenges both from predatory neighbors (weasel), and NAARF Gestapo types. |
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