#Gestapo

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July 13 was an inside job.

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Gestapo

The Gestapo was the secret political police organisation of Nazi Germany. Created in 1933, the Gestapo became one of the most feared instruments of state terror, its members having few or no legal restrictions to their actions. The Gestapo arrested, interrogated, assaulted, imprisoned, and executed hundreds of thousands of people across Europe ranging from Jewish civilians to Allied prisoners of war.

Origins & Structure

The Gestapo was the organisation that Hermann Göring (1893-1946) formed to replace the Prussian political police in 1933. The name Gestapo, coined in 1933 by a clerk, derives from Geheime Staatspolizei (GEheime STAatsPOlizei), meaning state secret police. With Göring still as the figurehead, the first administrative chief of the Gestapo was Rudolf Diels (1900-1957), a civil servant who actually ran the organisation. In 1934, when the Prussian state became fully integrated into wider Germany, the head of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) paramilitary organisation Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) took over from Göring in terms of having overall responsibility for the Gestapo. The jostling for power within the complex web of Nazi state organisations continued when, in 1936, Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942), Himmler's deputy, brought the Gestapo into his wider security police organisation known as Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei). In September 1939, a new organisation was formed with Heydrich at its head, the Reich Security Main Office or RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt). The RSHA included the criminal police or Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) intelligence agency, the Gestapo, and a department for foreign intelligence. With the RSHA's integration into the SS, Heydrich became the third most powerful Nazi after the Führer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and Heydrich's immediate superior Himmler.

Following Hitler's desire that everyone watched everyone else, the Gestapo ultimately became Department IV of the SS and was also a part of the Reich Interior Ministry. As time went on, the distinction between the functions of the Gestapo and SS became increasingly blurred and overlapping, especially as Himmler steadily replaced veteran police officers inside the Gestapo with SS members personally loyal to him. Department IV was further subdivided into sections. Section IV-A was responsible for dealing with communists, liberals, and saboteurs; it also carried out assassinations. Section IV-B dealt with Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Freemasons. The head of the Gestapo department from 1939 was Heinrich Müller (b. 1901), a man with long experience in policing and citizen surveillance. The organisation's administrative headquarters and notorious main prison were located at 8 Prinz Albrechtstrasse in Berlin.

Heinrich Himmler, 1938

Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R99621 (CC BY-SA)

Hitler gave the RSHA three main roles: policing and repressing enemies of Nazism, gathering intelligence, and eliminating those people identified by the Nazis as being racially inferior. In none of these roles was the RSHA limited by any legal restrictions. Heydrich's ultimate objective was to have what he described as "total and permanent police supervision of everyone" (Stone, 164), and with the RSHA, he certainly had the tools to achieve this aim. When Heydrich was assassinated by the Czech Resistance in May 1942, Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903-1946) took over as the new permanent head of the RSHA.

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The Dutch SS

[jackass-democrats]

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Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Director : Louis Malle

Director of Photography : Tonino Delli Colli

[cursedreverie1945]

These fuckers. The absolutely horrific scumbags MADE devices to harm others. Whips and such have practical uses. Usually it's livestock related or for kinky folks. This is a device made for crushing peoples hands/fingers.

But nah the Gestapo wasn't a big deal.

I hate these people.

[cagdasyatirim]

[usauthoritarianism]

This is a Chicago Jump Out Squad

In DC this sort of thing is normal too.

People need to understand. I have spent my adult life in driving distance between the urban centers where this slave catcher ass policing style is the reality, and the prison(s) where massive prisoner populations are rented out to governments and corporations for literal pennies to the inmates.

-and this article is from 2014

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Venezuelan dictator claims he won, refuses to allow popularly elected president to take offfice

This is what Trump is going to do in November. This is how dictators take office and never leave.

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[leatherlover12]

No better I see. Still being stubborn is he. Let me explain this to you while you still have the ability to understand. Give us the information we need and you will be rewarded by the new female world order. We will make you a valuable member of the organisation once your surgery and training are complete. I thought you might jump at that opportunity and I see in your eyes you desire it. Give my officer the required information and you wake up as Frau Mueller

[jackassdemocrats]

The socialist democrat party is the greatest threat America has ever faced.

[lifewithaview]

Gestapo la police de la terreur/Gestapo the Terror Police (2021)

Documentary

Hermann Göring's creation of 1933, the Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei, the secret state police charged with identifying individuals considered undesirable, was a redoubtable weapon in the hands of the Nazi power: a veritable device for terror. On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936.

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Roman Vishniac. Isaac Street, Kazimierz, Cracow, 1938.

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“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”

―Bruno Schulz, "The Street of Crocodiles," 1934.

Not boredom, Bruno -- with world's most vicious and implacable, most ancient hatred.

On November 19, 1942, Bruno Schulz, 50 and a genius, was shot and killed by a Gestapo officer while walking back home toward Drohobycz Ghetto with a loaf of bread.

[Mikhail Iossel]

[jackass-democrats]

The socialist democrat party is the greatest threat America has ever faced.

[warsofasoiaf]

What exactly was the difference between the SS and the Gestapo? Both organizations just seem to be made up of thugs whose job was to terrorize the citizens and enforce the grotesque Nazi ideology. But if I am missing something please let me know.

It's not wrong to be confused, since the confusion primarily stems from the fact that in 1934, about a year after its founding, it was headed by Himmler and there was frequent overlap. The primary difference between the Allegemeine-SS and the Gestapo is that the former were the bodyguard paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, while the Gestapo was a secret police unit whose job it was to ferret out internal discontent via informants and secret agents. The SS wore uniforms openly and frequently acted in conjunction with the Orpo, the uniformed police, while the Gestapo cultivated an aura of secrecy by blending in so no one could be sure who was a Gestapo agent.

So what was primarily different was the method and means, not the overall goal.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

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