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.

References

Books

• The Gestapo and German society : enforcing racial policy 1935-1945, Robert Gellately, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1990, ISBN 0198228694.
• German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 1938-1945, Klemens Von Klemperer, Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0198205511
• Histoire de la Gestapo, Jacques Delarue, Paris, 1962
• An Illustrated History of the Gestapo, Rupert Butler, Motorbooks, 1993, ISBN 0879388013

Suspected hoax works about the Gestapo include:

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• Gestapo Chief: The 1948 Interrogation of Heinrich Müller - Gregory Douglas. San Jose, CA 1995

External links

• Gestapo entry at the Simon Wiesenthal Center site
• Holocaust Survivors Encyclopedia
• History of Espionage entry
• U.S. Archives document on the IMT
• U.S. Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group
• U.S. Archives profile of CIA spy Fritz Kolbe
• Gestapo entry at the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) Berlin

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