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Il y a 2 jours · The death penalty could be issued for offences such as being a communist, printing seditious leaflets, or even making jokes about Hitler or other officials. The Gestapo was in charge of investigative policing to enforce Nazi ideology as they located and confined political offenders, Jews, and others deemed undesirable. [203]
Il y a 3 jours · The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) was the secret state police of Nazi Germany. It mercilessly removed opposition to the Nazis within Germany and throughout German-occupied territories and ...
Il y a 1 jour · The Gestapo's transfer to Himmler was a prelude to the Night of the Long Knives, in which most of the SA leadership were arrested and subsequently executed. The SS and Gestapo carried out most of the murders. On 20 July 1934, Hitler detached the SS from the SA, which was no longer an influential force after the purge. The SS became an elite ...
Il y a 2 jours · Göring, thinking that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the SA, handed over control of the Gestapo to Himmler on 20 April 1934. By this time, the SA numbered over two million men.
Il y a 1 jour · In September of 1940, when the Nazi Gestapo swept through the streets of Warsaw, they rounded up 2,000 Poles, including Pilecki, who assumed the identity of rebel leader Tomasz Serafiński to ensure his assignment to Auschwitz. Entering the concentration camp, his mission was to report on the atrocities being committed while creating resistance within. After two years, Pilecki was able to get ...
Il y a 3 jours · As head of the Gestapo, Heydrich could incarcerate enemies of the Reich at will. During Kristallnacht in November 1938, Heydrich ordered the arrest of thousands of Jews by the Gestapo and the SS and their imprisonment in concentration camps .
Il y a 4 jours · Klaus Barbie (born Oct. 25, 1913, Bad Godesberg, Ger.—died Sept. 25, 1991, Lyon, France) was a Nazi leader, head of the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, who was held responsible for the death of some 4,000 persons and the deportation of some 7,500 others.
