Gestapo Gestapo,was a German secret police force, which was created in 1933 after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The Gestapo was created to help solidify Nazi control by identifying and arresting people with anti-nazi thoughts in Germany. The agency was restructured several times during its twelve year history and was very important in helping the Nazi deportation and destruction of Europes jews during the Holocaust Herman Göring Herman Göring was the founder of Gestapo and was responsible for the first concentration camps, which led to germany being able to eliminate more jews faster and cheaper. He encouraged his officers to arrest leftist sympathizers, especially communists, which he considered a threat to the Nazi government, this led to people having a fear of believing or having other political opinions than the nazis which led to nobody having the guts to go …show more content…
By the time World War Two started these included Jews, Communists, Jehovah Witnesses and homosexuals – basically anyone who was thought to challenge the hegemony of the Nazists within Germany. After world war two had broke out, the work of the Gestapo occupied Europe where it had two main tasks. The first was to hunt down Jews and other people considered a threat while the second was to tackle the threat of resistance movements. They also expanded gestapos role to an internal police force. Which basically means that the civil people didn't know that they were from the police force, they were basically spies. When the second world war broke out in 1939, there were approximately 40,000 Gestapo agents in Germany. As the war progressed and the Nazis gained territory throught europe they also gained a bigger poopulation this led to the Gestapo employing over 150,000 informants and agents- which made it possible for gestapo to control more areas in the country and cover more
Despite his denial, Goering’s conscious involvement in the Nazi movement and intentional decisions concerning the public welfare justly convicted Hermann Goering of his crimes in the Nuremberg Trials. In January 1933, Hermann Goering joined Hitler as minister interior of Prussia when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Under Hermann Goering’s rule as minister interior of Prussia, covert institutions were established to remove political arrivals. The Gestapo, the Nazi secret police force, was formed by Goering to detect any opposition to the Nazi regime within Germany (Europe since 1914).
Some people might not thinks the SS police and Gestapo had a very big job but when they had to find all the Jewish by Hitler's orders it was like a big game
After he became chancellor, Adolf Hitler fought his way to become the “Fuhrer”, also known as Germany’s “supreme ruler” (History.com). This gave Hitler enough power to cause Germany to invade its neighboring territories, such as Poland and the Soviet Union. Several years later, the Nazi Party met in Berlin to discuss their plan about the murdering of the Jewish people. They named their plan the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” The Nazis carefully planned each stage of the “Final Solution” before it ever began. This plan also went over how the Jewish people were to be identified from the rest of the crowd (The Holocaust). To put this plan into action the SA, (Sturmabteilungen in German, or Storm Troopers) and the SS (Schutzstaffel in German, or Protection Squadrons) were made to create concentration camps for incarcerating political opponents of the Nazis (Concentration Camps). To get Germans into identifying the Jewish people in their community, the Nazis tricked them
In 1933 when the Nazi party seized power and control of the nation in 1933 the SS membership had increased to 52,000. The SS was rewarded for their participation in the Night of the Long Knives by making them an independent organization. Himmler and the SS was only subordinate to Hitler and received authority from Hitler to carry out the ideological laws that the state wouldn't permit others to do. Hitler authorizes the SS and Himmler to centralize the concentration camps under their authority. Also in 1934 the SS was made the only organization that can gather political intelligence of the Third Reich according to Rudolph Hess.
The Gestapo eventually came knocking down the doors to
The German Gestapo was formed in 1903. It consisted of a large police force being ran by a man named Herman Göring, who at the time was a loyalist to Adolf Hitler. His support resulted in Hitler appointing him as Russian Interior Minister giving him complete command of the large force. He quickly found other supporters who would follow his command and protect Adolf Hitler from any opposition.Göring eventually merged the two divisions of the force, (the political and intelligence) in April of 1933, it was that the force acquired the name "The German Gestapo."
The Nazis like many movements of their time started organisations for many aspects of life the most notable the, Hitler youth, Nazi teachers’ organisation, union of Nazi lawyers and the order of German women. This shows that the Nazis wanted a totalitarian state and re-developed and re-organised during the 1924-1929 period to start this. In 1925 the SS were
The roles of the SS,SA and the Gestapo are going to be revealed . These positions are all played in the Holocaust from 1929 to 1945. There was a very high role of cruelty and death taking in all three positions. Each played a role as for taking either a Jew’s life or anyone else that was considered undesirable. There will be over a million deaths just of these three positions because of the role played for the Nazi Party in Germany between that period of time involving World War 2. I
Racial matters were mostly dealt with the Allgemeine-SS. It was divided into many other sub-groups, from which the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA: Reich Security Central Office) was the most important. This group controlled the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo: Security Police), which consisted of the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo: Criminal Police) and the infamous Gestapo which was led by Heinrich Mueller. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD: Security Service) was another sub-group of the RHSA that specialized in intelligence and espionage.
The SS Gestapo (also known as Geheime Staatspolizei) was a police state that protected German party leaders and Adolf Hitler. Hitler took power and the Gestapo were looking for party leaders because they spoke against the Nazi party. In the essay, I am going to be writing about Heinrich Himmler, how the Nazis came to power, what happened during the holocaust, and what happened after the holocaust. On October 7 1900, Hienrich Himmler was born.
As well as allowing the Nazi leadership to work 'outside the law' the Gestapo, together with the SS worked legally to enforce Hitler's will. Opponents of the Nazi government were placed in 'protective custody' to stop them becoming involved in plots to attack the regime. This meant internment in concentration camps, the first of which was opened at Dachau in Munich in March of 1933. The Gestapo also tapped telephones, intercepted mail and spied
Throughout Hitler’s reign from 1933 to 1939, there was a great leap of discrimination among the Jewish people and other minority groups. Prior to the holocaust, the Nazi party only wanted the Aryan people to be superior in Germany and across Europe. The Nazi party initiated concentration camps that would maintain fear among other groups. However, the concentration camps were not always meant to kill other groups. They had other purposes than exterminating other groups of people.
An integral component of the Jewish life in most of the Judenhauser residents was feared spot checks carried out by the Gestapo to look for
The SS and Gestapo (secret police) acting under the orders of Himmler, made terror a regular occurrence and a matter of state policy. Any sort of opponents were beaten and regularly thrown
People might think that Hitler was head of all of this but he actually wasn’t. Prussian minister Herman Göring was the creator of the concentration camps. He was the first person to come up with an idea. The camps at the beginning weren’t just for jews.Some of the early prisoners in these camps were: german communist, socialist, social democrats, Roma(gypsies), Jehovah's witnesses, homosexuals, and the “asocial” or people with socially deviant behavior. Göring also created the Gestapo(secret state police) which was to take place of the Prussian secret police. There was group called the SA also known as the Stormtroopers or Brownshirts which was a group of thugs and petty criminals to protect party