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.
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.
...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.
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 Schutzstaffel (SS) started off as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguards. They later became one of the most feared and powerful organizations in all of Germany. Founded in 1925, the SS started off as a small group of eight members who were lead initially by Julius Schreck, a dedicated Hitler loyalist. The SS crew grew to more than 250,000 by the start of World War II. The SS did more than just guard Hitler; they guarded the concentration camps, and the Waffen-SS specialized in brutalizing and murdering people in territories occupied by the Nazi’s. The SS guards had an important role for Germany in World War II because they did most of Hitler’s work. The SS-VT were the SS guards that actually fought in the war, they were later named the Waffen-SS, who also caused terrorism. The regular SS’s guarding of Hitler, and of concentration camps affected the war in a major way.
...iques. They were also taught some of the practices that the doctors at Dachau would use to experiment on the prisoners with. Although the camps were ran by the SS they were under the control of the Gestapo. After the war the Gestapo was dissolved and declared a criminal organization. At the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminal the Gestapo was named as one of the chief institutional perpetrators of the holocaust but not very many officers were prosecuted (“Nazi perpetrators”).
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Elements of the Nazi Police State and the treatment of minority groups and Jews show that Nazi Germany was totalitarian to a large extent.
Crime is everywhere and it takes a special group or team of people to stop it, or make crime less tempting to do. The main job of police and security officers is to maintain justice, order and peace. In order to keep peace police officers must go through an academy that will prepare them for most situations that they will have to face later on in their career. Some situations require a more intense way to solve a problem such as using force or putting the perpetrator in fear so they will give in to what the police are asking. In some cases the peretrator(s) are too volatile or risky for the basic trained police officer, so the swat team must be used. The swat team unit or “special weapons and tactics” is a higher trained police force. It is a select group of officers that have been through more training and more experience than the average cop. Without the police or security civilians may not feel as safe as they do now when they are walking in the streets or going to a public event. For the people who want to be part of such a unit and are willing to put people before themselves will need to know what it takes to be a police officer.