Josef Kania

• Secret State Police
• Gestapo

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• Updated 5 years ago

As the chief executive agency charged with fighting internal ‘enemies of the state’, the Gestapo functioned as the Third Reich’s main surveillance and terror instrument, first within Germany and later in the territories occupied by Germany. After 1933 the Gestapo became part of a complex apparatus of state and party police agencies.

• Gestapo Berlin

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The Geheime Staatspolizei, the Gestapo, was one of the most unfamous police organisations in the 1930s and 1940s. The Gestapo was widely represented in the occupied zones but also in Germany, for example with an office in Berlin.