Gestapo
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The Geheime Staatspolizei, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
Gestapo headquarters at Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8 in Berlin (1933)
Rudolf Diels, first Commander of the Gestapo; 1933–1934
Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring at the meeting to formally hand over control of the Gestapo (Berlin, 1934)
1938 Gestapo border inspection stamp applied when leaving Germany
Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)
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Heinrich Müller was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel and police official during the Nazi era. For most of World War II in Europe, he was the chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of Nazi Ge
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…both immediately began installing their own personnel in select positions, several of whom were directly from the Bavarian Political Police, such as Heinrich Müller, Franz Josef Huber, and Josef Meisinger. Many of the Gestapo employees in the newly established offices were young and highly educated in a wide variety…
Müller, c. 1941–1945
Berlin February 1939: Maj. v. Schweinichen; Dr. Boor; Müller
Left to right: Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Müller (1939)
Müller (front row, to the left) and Reinhard Heydrich visiting a war cemetery in Oslo, Norway in 1941.