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Reich Main Security Office
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central Intelligence and Police Service (usually in plain clothes) of the SS under the National Socialist regime in Germany from 1939 (to 1945)
Key facts
- Formed
- 27 September 1939
- Preceding agencies
- Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) Sicherheitsdienst (SD)
- Dissolved
- 8 May 1945
- Type
- • Secret police , • Intelligence agency
- Jurisdiction
- Germany , Occupied Europe
- Headquarters
- Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8, Berlin, 52°30′26″N 13°22′57″E / 52.50722°N 13.38250°E / 52.50722; 13.38250
- Employees
- 50,648 (February 1944 estimation</span>"}]]}'>est. )
- Minister responsible
- Heinrich Himmler , (1939–1945)
- Rsha executives
- Reinhard Heydrich (1939–1942), Chief of SiPo and SD Heinrich Himmler (1942–1943), Acting Chief of SiPo and SD Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1943–1945), Chief of SiPo and SD
- Parent rsha
- Ministry of the Interior (nominally), Allgemeine SS
- Child agencies
- Gestapo Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) Kriminalpolizei (Kripo)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- military police
- Country
- Nazi Germany
- Founded by
- Heinrich Himmler
- Headquarters
- Berlin
- Chairperson
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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- Commons category
- Reich Security Main Office
- topic's main category
- Category:Reich Security Main Office
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1945-05-08
- archives at
- German Federal Archives
- inception
- 1939-09-27
- P8168
- Zalmai Rassoul
- street address
- Wilhelmstrasse
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Encyclopedic overview
The Reich Security Main Office (German: Reichssicherheitshauptamt pronounced [ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌzɪçɐhaɪ̯t͡sˌhaʊ̯ptʔamt] , RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police) and Reichsführer-SS, the head of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS). The organization's stated duty was to fight all "enemies of the Reich" inside and outside the borders of Nazi Germany. From its very inception, the RSHA was a central institution for the Nazis, playing a pivotal role in orchestrating and executing the Holocaust.
Formation and development
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