The Gestapo was the official secret police of NaziGermany. Beginning in April 1934, it was under the administration of the SSleaderHeinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police. From September 1939 forward it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office") and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service") and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) ("security police").
In 1938, just after the Second World War began in Europe, officers of the Gestapo confronted American tourist Peggy Druce for patronizing Rothstein's kosher butcher shop in Berlin, in violation of the Nuremberg Race Laws. Upon seeing that she was from a neutral country, they left her alone, but brutalized poor Rothstein instead.[1]
In 1943, the Gestapo arrested Eberhard Nehring, an electrician's mate of the submarineU-30, after intercepting a seditious letter, written by him to his hometown of Münster, regarding the recent civil unrest there.[2]
The duties of the Gestapo included inspecting the bloodlines of supposedly solid Reich citizens for tainted genetics. In 1962, officers of the Gestapo focused on the family of Reich Rocket Force Colonel Johannes Drucker, whose wife Käthe was accused having a Jewish grandmother. RRF supreme commander General Walter Dornberger pulled strings, and made the Gestapo leave the family alone, but Colonel Drucker's chances of promotion were severely curtailed.
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