"after the Nuremberg trials the Gestapo was ended. It no longer served a purpose in the world." -
Im not sure I agree with this simplification regarding the Gestapo (Gehiemstaatspolizie) I don't think they went off and tended their alotments or took up fishing at wars end - maybe some did - but a lot of these people (if you can call them that) were highly skilled opperatives and loved the work.
Even in WW2 the allies and the Germans had something in common - a fear of the Bolshevics - and the nazi intelligence services and German army intelligence such as the Abwehr - had put together huge spy networks and and had amassed an enormouse amount of files and data - which I suspect was all taken over, lock-stock-and barrle by the CIA.
Dont forget the CIA where formaly the SOE Special Ops executive....
I think they just took over although some former Gestapo officers might simply have joined the Stasi in eastern Germany when the wall went up.
End of war was very interesting, esp when you realise that at least 2 German U-Boats where still at sea in AUGUST 1945!
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The Gestapo was a secret police that showed their strength with the use of terror. Hitler and the Nazi party used this secret police to hunt down Jews, gypsies, etc. Once they found them, they would be sent to the concentration camps.
Hermann Goering is the founder of the Gestapo.
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The Nazi secret police were the Geheime Staats Polizei; which was shortened to Gestapo.
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There were three directors of the Gestapo. The first was Rudolf Diels. He was replaced by Reinhard "Butcher of Prague" Heydrich from 1934 until 1939. The last director of the Gestapo was Heinrich Mueller from 1939 until the end of World War II. Heinrich Himmler was the head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, which was the organization which oversaw the Gestapo.
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The Gestapo are the police.
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The Gestapo were the Secret Police for the Nazis. The Gestapo belonged to the Nazi Party.
The Japanese Gestapo - or Kempeitai - were very similar to the Gestapo in the way they operated, but had been around for much longer than the Gestapo (1881-1945). Their numbers were considerably larger than that of the Gestapo, however - about 70,000, compared to the Gestapo's 32,000.
The Gestapo.
The main requirement needed to be in the Gestapo was being a non-Jewish German. You also needed to believe in the Gestapo and agree with that way of thinking to join the Gestapo.
It was called the Gestapo.
The Gestapo relied heavily on networks of informers.
The Gestapo was a secret police that showed their strength with the use of terror. Hitler and the Nazi party used this secret police to hunt down Jews, gypsies, etc. Once they found them, they would be sent to the concentration camps.