What did the Gestapo do?

Answer 1

The Gestapo (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; "secret state police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Under the overall administration of the SS, it was administrated by the RSHA and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei.

Answer 2

• The Gestapo was the political secret police. Its functions included spying on enemies of the Nazi regime (imaginary as well as real), finding dissidents and opponents. They were arrested, ill treated and often sent on to concentration camps. The Gestapo was a key part of the Nazi terror apparatus.

Answer 3

The Gestapo was the German secret police during the Nazi era. Gestapo is short for "Geheime Staatspolizei." They didn't investigate criminal cases. They investigated people who were believed to be enemies of the state. The gestapo participated in locating and rounding up Jews in Germany and the captured nations.

Answer 4

The Gestapo were the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Gestapo was an abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei and was under the administration of SS leader Heinrich Himmler from April 20th 1934. From September 1939 forward, it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA), the Reich Main Security Office and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst, the security service.

In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest people on suspicion that they were about to do wrong or that they were some kind of threat to the state. This gave the police great power over citizens. All local police units had to draw up a list of people in their locality who might be suspected of being "Enemies of the State". This list was given to the Gestapo. The Gestapo had the power to do as it liked. Its leader, Reinhard Heydrich, was one of the most feared men in Nazi Germany. His immediate chief was Heinrich Himmler. Both men ran their respective branches with ruthless efficiency.

Answer 5

The first "police" head was Rudolf Diels, with Hermann Goering as the political boos (1933-34). In 1934 Himmler became head of a much enlarged Gestapo.

Answer 6

They hunted the Jews, hippies, homosexuals, blacks and gypsies for the Nazi's. They usually killed them if they found them. This was in WWII for Hitler.

Answer 7

The Gestapo were with the Nazis. The Gestapo (and the Nazis) killed Jews, Handicapped people and plenty of other kinds of people in ww2,