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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 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 |
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After the first such operation, called an Aktion, the surviving Jews were forced to reimburse the Gestapo for the ammunition used to kill their friends and families. What I meant to say was that if Democrats had their way back then, Howard Dean would have written the propaganda for Joseph Goebbels, John Murtha would have probably loaded the rifles for the Gestapo and Russ Feingold would be pointing out the homes of all the non-Aryans to the SS. They operated against all odds but in the end were effective heroes who survived underground battles with Germans and Gestapo for months while awaiting the arrival of Allied ground forces: The Jedburghs in audio is especially adept at bringing all this to life. |
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