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Polish children look for their parents at the Gestapo (German Secret State Police) office in Warsaw. [LCID: 15001]
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Gestapo

The Gestapo (an abbreviation for the German Geheime Staatspolizei) was the political police force of the Nazi state. One of the Gestapo’s main responsibilities was coordinating the deportation of Jews to ghettos, concentration camps, killing sites, and killing centers. Explore more content related to the Gestapo during the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust (1933–1945), and the postwar pursuit for justice. 

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A building in Rome used as Gestapo (secret state police) headquarters during the German occupation. [LCID: 20327]
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Gestapo headquarters in Rome, Italy
A hand-tinted photograph of Frieda Greinegger and Julian Noga as a young couple. [LCID: n02819]
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Frieda Greinegger and Julian Noga
Frima L. [LCID: flp0156f]
Oral History
Frima L. describes roundup of Jews for mobile killing unit (Einsatzgruppen) massacre
German police guard a group of Roma (Gypsies) who have been rounded up for deportation to Poland. [LCID: 91556]
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The Nazification of the German Police, 1933–1939
A long line of prisoners curves around a curbed green area. A large building can be seen in the background.
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The Gestapo: Overview
Irena Sendler describes how she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo
Oral History
Irena Sendler describes how she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo
Isak Saleschutz [LCID: 1178]
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Isak Saleschutz
These Jewish children from the Children's Aid Society (OSE) home in Izieu were arrested and deported on the orders of Lyon Gestapo ... [LCID: 73846]
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Jewish children from the Children's Aid Society (OSE) home in Izieu
Several people stand on the street looking towards storefronts. Two women bend to sweep up broken glass, while a man stares up at a large broken window next door.
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Kristallnacht
Political opponents of the Nazis, guarded by SA (Storm Troopers), are forced to scrub anti-Hitler slogans off a wall shortly after ... [LCID: 31368]
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Nazi Terror Begins
Headquarters of the Nazi Gestapo (secret state police) and of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). [LCID: 80082]
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Police headquarters
A long line of prisoners curves around a curbed green area. A large building can be seen in the background.
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Prisoners of the Gestapo
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Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
Back of an oval metal identification tag. A single jump ring fits through a hole on the right side.
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The Nazi Kripo (Criminal Police)
German police guard a group of Roma (Gypsies) who have been rounded up for deportation to Poland. [LCID: 91556]
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The Role of the German Police
Heinrich Himmler sits at a desk while Reinhard Heydrich and another man with short dark hair and light skin tone stand on either side. Another man with short slicked back hair and light skin tone sits at the left edge of the table facing right. All are in dark military uniforms.
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The Security Police (SiPo)

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