Reich Security Main Office

The ' (, , abbreviated Gestapo' ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

Italian philosopher and esotericist (1898-1974)

''''' (, "Security Service"), full title ''' ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Established in 1931, the SD was the first Nazi intelligence organization and the Gestapo (formed in 1933) was considered its sister organization through the integration of SS members and operational procedures. The SD was administered as an independent SS office between 1933 and 1939. That year, the SD was transferred over to the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt''; RSHA), as one of its seven departments.

'''''' (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progres

central Intelligence and Police Service (usually in plain clothes) of the SS under the National Socialist regime in Germany from 1939 (to 1945)

German Nazi concentration camp in Lower Silesia, now Poland

The ' often abbreviated as SiPo', is a German term meaning "security police". In the Nazi era, it referred to the state political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the combined forces of the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police; Kripo) between 1936 and 1939. As a formal agency, the SiPo was incorporated into the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in 1939, but the term continued to be used informally until the end of World War II in Europe.

Nazi police prison and re-education through labor camp southeast of Riga in Latvia

Nazi police and transit camp in the Netherlands

former Berlin brothel

proscription list made by Nazi Germany targeting important members of Polish society for executions

secret military police of the German Wehrmacht until the end of the Second World War

Jewish umbrella organisation formed in Nazi Germany

government agency

thumb|Medal with text meaning, "For Faithful Service in the Customs Border Guards" thumb|Green ZGS uniform in a museum in Hamburg Zollgrenzschutz (ZGS; ) was an organization under the German Finance Ministry from 1937 to 1945. It was charged with guarding Germany's borders, acting as a combination of Border Patrol and Customs & Immigration service.

Criminal Police in Germany between 1936 and 1945

concentration camp in Guxhagen, ca. 15 km south of Kassel, Hesse

1941–45 German scheme to recruit Soviet POWs for espionage behind Russian lines

thumb|The building at 93, rue Lauriston in Paris in which the Carlingue were based. It is commemorated presently by a plaque on the site.

Reichskriminalpolizeiamt (RKPA), was Nazi Germany's central criminal investigation department, founded in 1936 after the Prussian central criminal investigation department (Landeskriminalpolizeiamt) became the national criminal investigation department for Germany. It was merged, along with the secret state police department, the Gestapo, as two sub-branch departments of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo). The SiPo was under Reinhard Heydrich's overall command. In September 1939, with the founding of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the SiPo as a functioning state agency ceased to exist as a

thumb|320px|Prinz-Albrecht-Palais, 1837 The Prinz-Albrecht-Palais was a Rococo city palace in the historic Friedrichstadt suburb of Berlin, Germany. It was located on Wilhelmstrasse 102 in the present-day Kreuzberg district, in the vicinity of Potsdamer Platz.

The Blechhammer ('') (nowadays Blachownia Śląska, district of the City of Kędzierzyn-Koźle) area was the location of Greater German Reich chemical plants, prisoner of war camps, and forced labor camps (). Labor camp prisoners began arriving as early as June 17, 1942, and in July 1944, 400–500 men were transferred from the Terezin family camp to Blechhammer. The mobile "pocket furnace" () crematorium was at Sławięcice.) and Bau und Arbeits Battalion (BAB, ) 21 was a mile from the Blechhammer oil plants and was not far from Kattowitz and Breslau. Blechhammer synthetic oil (aka synthetic fuel) pr

Nazi looting organisation in Vienna

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Department of the Reich Main Security Office in Nazi Germany

military unit

Nazi labor camp