Celeste Saenz 4th Period 5/20/14 Gestapo World War 2 began in 1939. It was the most deadliest and widespread wars in history. There were more than 30 countries involved in the war, and more than 5,000,000 deaths throughout. The war finally ended in 1945. One of the many secret police forces during the war was Gestapo. It is short for Gieheime Staatspolizei, which is German for Secret State police. They were a main use for destruction and oppression. They persecuted a bunch of other races or religions such as Jews, Germans and regimes. Gestapo was formed before the war began in 1933. Hermann Göring was the one that organized everything in the Gestapo. He later became commander of the Gestapo. They had the power to do whatever they wanted to do to the enemies of the Nazis, like capture, arrest, or shadow them. So whoever they thought went against the government they had, they could do those things to them. This job occupied throughout Europe. Two of their main responsibilities was to hunt down the Jews and other people, and to tackle the threat of resistance movements. People feared the Gestapo, and the organization used that fear as a weapon. Even though Gestapo wasn't everywhere at once, they were evenly spread, which gave the Germans the thought that they couldn't trust anybody. If you dared to cross the state, it was said that the Gestapo would most likely capture you. They had their ways of dealing with people in their protective custody and it was known throughout the country, therefore it sent a message that you should stay loyal to your state. If they wanted to give someone that was captured a legal process, they would take them to the Peoples Court, they sometimes sent out a dea... ... middle of paper ... .... The Gestapo would lead the Germans into Final Solution with all the torture and punishment they received. In France, the Gestapo would help the Milice to hunt out resistance groups. In Eastern Europe, the Gestapo hunted Jews who may have escaped. In Western Europe, the Gestapo would kill any prisoners of war who were protected in the Geneva Convention. At the Nuremberg Trials, the Gestapo was put to trial and considered a criminal organization. The Nazis wanted to change the way people think, so they started a campaign to enforce hated "unGerman" ideas. So they burned books which was thought to be the worst crime to commit. Müller was never brought to justice. His death is unknown to the people, they say he died in the last battle, and some say he moved away to South America and lived without notice. The Gestapo lasted from 1933-1945, when World War 2 died out.
The Gestapo, Hitler’s secret Police, instilled a lot of fear into the German people's eyes. With their leader being one of Hitlers advisers, you can tell they were pretty important to Hitler. However, they weren't always lead by one of Hitler’s advisers. The Gestapo had many roles to Hitler's war plan. With this they had many duties to do and many different complicated ways they did their duties.
World War 2 was a war that lasted from the 1st of September 1939 to the 2nd of September 1945. That’s 2 years longer than the first war. This war was started by Nazi Germany when they invaded Poland. This was the largest conflict in history that impacted every inch of the earth, including Canada.
The Gestapo was an information gathering and law enforcing body of the Nazi regime, which began its operation in 1933. The organization has been examined though many lenses, some more popular than others. The article, “ The Gestapo and German Society” by Robert Gellately argues how ultimately it was society that fueled the Gestapo’s power beyond the limits of what they could have achieved without society’s help. Other perspectives into the analysis of the Gestapo have included the organizations legal history and insights into key leaders such as Henirich Himmler. What some of these other perspectives lack is a thorough assessment of the Gestapo’s operations. Gellately created a compelling argument by determining what led to a Gestapo case being initiated and the number of employees per branch compared to the population to conclude that the Gestapo lacked the physical resources to be the motor of the terror system within the Nazi regime. Yet, the author leaves room to argue that German society had adequate reason to fear the brutal behaviour of the Gestapo regardless of private citizen’s cooperation in cases.
Another method of dehumanizing the Jews was to make sure they turned on one another. Once the Jews began turning on each other, it kept them in their place and allowed them to mistrust one another even though the Germans were the real culprits. Since goods were scarce, it did not take long for the ghettos to descend into chaos. Stealing became a common practice amongst those who could not afford to buy illegally on the black market. Another way to make sure Jews constantly mistrusted one another was to make sure Jews were the ones who kept the ghettos running. Within the ghettos, a Jewish police force called Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst was created to keep Jews from escaping the ghettos. They wore armbands with an identifying marker and a badge. They were not permitted to use guns but were allowed to carry batons. The Jewish police reported any mishaps to the German police who were assigned to check perimeters outside the ghettos. They were recruited from two groups: lawyers and criminals. The criminal group was larger and soon became the dominating force behind the police and life inside the ghettos. In the Warsaw ghetto, a special group called Group 13 was created for the purpose of combatting the black market that thrived during this time. The group was also known as the Jewish Gestapo and had orders to report back to the German Gestapo. While officially the group’s job was to fight off the black market, unofficially the group extorted and blackmailed Polish sympathizers. They also were very skilled in tracking down Jews who had managed to not be sent to the ghettos. The Jewish Police were also in charge of a prison that allowed them to continue their illegal operations
...t and throughout caused by the Gestapo and SS ruthlessly swept away any thought of rebellion, crushing opposition leaders, either killing or imprisoning them and their supporters became isolated from the rest of population forcing them to support the Nazis even if they did not want to, they had to.
Prisoners and concentration camps A. The Gestapo and the Thought Police B. Disappearance and re-education of people C. Concentration and extermination camps
World War 2 was a very historic and dangerous moment in time that costed millions of lives. This global war began when Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Nazi Germany at the time had major goals that needed to be met, like having complete world order, and wiping out every single race other than a pure Aryan bloodline. In order to reach this goal, Nazi Germany tried to take over countries, and they also committed mass genocide to the Jewish people.
There were a number of groups in germany that were attempting to take down the Nazis.
The Nazi Party, controlled by Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi government began to take over. Hitler became a very influential speaker and attracted new members to his party by blaming Jews for Germany’s problems and developed a concept of a “master race.” The Nazis believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jewish people were a threat to the German racial community and also targeted other groups because of their “perceived racial inferiority” such as Gypsies, disabled persons, Polish people and Russians as well as many others. In 1938, Jewish people were banned from public places in Germany and many were sent to concentration camps where they were either murdered or forced to work. Many individuals and groups attempted to resist Nazism in Germany, but were unsuccessful. The White Rose, The Red Orchestra and the Kreisau Circle all advocated non-violent resistance to oppose the Nazi regime and even with the high risk of getting caught and potentially killed, the courageous members of these groups went after what they believed was right despite the serious consequences.
There were many wars that has brought our world to what it is today, one of the wars being World War II. Although there were many countries that were involved in this war some of the major countries were The United States, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, France and Britain. The main outbreak of the war was triggered when Britain and France declared war on Germany, due to their invasion in World War I. WWII lasted for six years. World War II was one of the most important conflicts in World History, there were many important events that occurred during this war; one of the main events includes Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. The Holocaust is one of the major segregation events that occurred in history that made the world what it is today.
Espionage is WWII was a factor that is commonly overlooked by the masses. Knowing how espionage was used will change the general thought on warfare during WWII. Espionage in WWII was the sole saver of D-Day and in the spies eyes the winning factor of the war. Spies during this time uncovered secrets of enemy nations as-well-as protected secrets of the nation they were backed by just as Juan Pujol Garcia did with the invasion of Normandy. Britain during this time of war had picked up a number of spies that Germany thought were in there own back pocket. The relatively unknown story of espionage in WWII is a huge event in the winning of the war it in many ways
World War II was one of the deadliest wars we know of in history, with as many as sixty million casualties, most of whom were civilians. It impacted a lot of countries, almost all over the world, which is why the name is given. This war impacted many countries in the world, and damaged almost all of the countries involved greatly. It also led to the downfall of Western European countries as world powers, leaving it to the Soviet Union, and the United States. The war started in 1939 and ended in 1945, with the invasion of Poland and the Axis surrender, respectively.
The Green Police played a major role in the holocaust, the Green Police were the Nazi Police and were a key part in the killing of many Jews, and sending many away to be killed. Thy were considered the police germany from 1936-1945 and basically ruled over everybody they wanted to. At the beginning of the war there were about 100,000 Green Police and at the end of the war there was only about 100 left which means that almost 99,900 police died. The Green Police killed about 2,700,000 people during the entire war and, and sent many more people away so they could have been responsible for about 7 million deaths . The Green Police did not fight in the war they only captured people and sent them to camps some of the police moved positions to fight
Over the past few weeks or so I’ve been looking more and more into what it actually means to be a cadet. If you’re accepted to be a cadet you get put through both physical and mental training programs which introduce you to the fundamentals of the law enforcement. After those training sessions are completed most of the cadets are sent out to voluntarily patrol at events and/or become support services to the law enforcement.
The Gestapo, established in 1933, controlled originally by Georing and later in November 1934, was controlled under Himmler. The Gestapo’s job was to investigate and suppress all anti-state activities, and had a reputation of being very brutal and ruthless. It was not secret and was much feared. Terror atomised the nation, people thought the Gestapo was everywhere but in fact they were a very small number. The Gestapo controlled concentration camps.