Gestapo

The {{Audio|De-Gestapo.ogg|Gestapo}} (acronym 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.

Notable individuals

Agents and officers of the Gestapo

• Klaus Barbie
• Rudolf Diels
• Adolf Eichmann
• Gerhard Flesch
• Hans Bernd Gisevius
• Herbert Kappler
• Heinrich Himmler
• Henry Oliver Rinnan
• Walter Schellenberg
• Karl Eberhard Schongarth
• Franz Stangl (Austrian Gestapo)
• Max Wielen
• Hermann Göring
• Siegfried Wolfgang Fehmer

People executed by the Gestapo

• Marc Bloch, French historian
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian
• Wilhelm Canaris, Head of the Abwehr
• Constant Chevillon, Occultist
• Charles Delestraint, French Resistance member
• Jean Moulin, French Resistance leader
• Stanislaw Saks, Polish mathematician
• Juliusz Schauder, Polish mathematician
• Barthel Schink, Member of the Edelweiss Pirates
• Ernst Thälmann, German communist leader