Sicherheitspolizei
Sign in to saveThe ' 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.
Key facts
- Government agency.picture
- Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-027-1475-38, Marseille, deutsch-französische Besprechung.jpg
- Government agency.picture_width
- 250px
- Government agency.picture_caption
- SiPo officers in Marseille during World War II
- Government agency.formed
- 26 June 1936
- Government agency.preceding1
- Gestapo and Kripo
- Government agency.dissolved
- 22 September 1939
- Government agency.superseding
- Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
- Government agency.jurisdiction
- Occupied Europe
- Government agency.headquarters
- Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, Berlin <!----
- Government agency.latd
- 52
- Government agency.latm
- 30
- Government agency.lats
- 26
- Government agency.latNS
- N
- Government agency.longd
- 13
- Government agency.longm
- 22
- Government agency.longs
- 57
- Government agency.longEW
- E ---->
- Government agency.employees
- 245,000 (1940)
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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.
==Origins==