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1 When did Gestapo form?

2 It was incorporated together with the ________ or Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) into the SiPo or Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police), and considered a complementary organisation to the SS Security Service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).

3 Over the next five years the Gestapo underwent considerable expansion, and in 1936 combined with the ________ to form the SiPo, Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police).

4 Although individual Gestapo members could and did join the ________ or other Party organizations, those uniforms would not have been worn on duty.

5 Gestapo members Hermann Göring and ________ were individually convicted.

6 The Reich Interior Minister, ________, wanted to integrate all the police forces of the German states in late 1933.

7 In March 1940 representatives of the NKVD and Gestapo met for the third time in the best known of these conferences which lasted for one week in Zakopane, to coordinate the pacification of resistance in ________.

8 Members of the three convicted groups were subject to apprehension by Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and ________.

9 [10] ________ was Müller's direct subordinate and head of Department IV, Section B4, which dealt with Jews.

10 In September 1939 the security and police agencies of Nazi Germany (with the exception of the Orpo) were consolidated into the Reich Main Security Office (________), headed by Heydrich.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Margaret Kelly Leibovici, a French-Irish dancer, was interrogated by the Gestapo in occupied France?
  • Saugumas, a Nazi-controlled Lithuanian secret police of the 1940s, was modelled after the infamous Gestapo?
  • Sir James Hutchison, known as the "Pimpernel of the Maquis" for his liaison work with the French Resistance, was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day?
  • the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement?
  • two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
  • Karl Schnibbe was one of a group of three Hamburg teenagers arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany during World War II for distributing anti-Hitler pamphlets?
  • Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, was observed by the Gestapo during World War II?
  • XU leader Lauritz Sand was turned in to the Gestapo by a female Norwegian Abwehr agent?
  • Abraham Blum, a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was murdered by the Gestapo, but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka, a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland?
  • André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
  • Group 13 was a notorious group of Jewish Nazi collaborators within the Warsaw Ghetto, known as the Jewish Gestapo?
  • 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen—accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club?
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