Gestapo

Gestapo

Geheime Staatspolizei
The Gestapo wis admeenistered bi officers o the SS.
Plainclothes Gestapo agents during the White Buses operations in 1945.
Agency owerview
Formed	26 Aprile 1933
Precedin agency	Proushie Secret Polis Foonded 1851.
Dissolved	8 Mey 1945
Teep	Secret Police
Jurisdiction	Nazi Germany Occupied Europe
Heidquarters	Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, Berlin 52°30′26″N 13°22′57″E
Employees	32,000 c.1944
Meenisters responsible	Hermann Göring 1933–1934, Meenister Preses o Proushie Wilhelm Frick 1936–1943 (nominal authority), Interior Minister Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Chef der Deutschen Polizei, 1936–1945; Interior Minister, 1943–1945
Agency executives	Rudolf Diels 1933–1934, Commander, Prussian Secret Police Office SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Director, Gestapo, 1934–1936; Director, SiPo, 1936–1939; Director, RSHA 1939–1942 SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, Chief o Operations, Gestapo, 1936–1939; Director, Gestapo (RSHA Amt IV), 1939–1945
Paurent agency	Allgemeine SS RSHA Sicherheitspolizei

The Gestapo (German pronunciation: [ɡeˈstaːpo, ɡəˈʃtaːpo] ( listen); abbreviation o Geheime Staatspolizei, "Secret State Polis") wis the offeecial secret polis o Nazi Germany an German-occupied Europe.