Sicherheitsdienst
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Sicherheitsdienst, full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-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 in
Reinhard Heydrich in 1940
German passport extended by the SD in Norway, March 1945
Follow-up letter from Reinhard Heydrich to the German diplomat Martin Luther asking for administrative assistance in the implementation of the Final Solution genocide, 26 February 1942
SD personnel during a łapanka (random arrest) in occupied Poland
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