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
Allgemeine SS
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The Allgemeine SS was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed by the SS Main Office. The Allgemeine SS was officially established in the autumn of 1934
Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler leads an SS ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Heinrich I at Quedlinburg, July 1938.
1939 photograph; shown from left to right are Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller. According to the archival caption, these men are planning the investigation of the bomb assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler of 8 November 1939 in Munich.
Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arriving at Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944