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Why were gestapos called gestapo?
GESTAPO, and Gestapos is bad usage- you would say Gestapo agents, or men. It was the plainclothes or detective arm of the German SS and derives from the acronym- Geheime Staats Polizei=- Secret- lit,...
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Where was the gestapo?
They were the secret police force of the Third Reich. They were NOT paramilitary soldiers like the SS (Schutzstaffel) or its predecessor, the SA. The Gestapo was also not a normal civilian police...
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What was Gestapo and what did they do?
The Gestapo were with the Nazis. The Gestapo (and the Nazis) killed Jews, Handicapped people and plenty of other kinds of people in ww2,
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What are gestapos?
GESTAPO is an abbreviation - the German equivalent of an acronym. It is short for Geheimstaatspolizei. geheim = secret. Staats = State. Polizei = Police.
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Leader of the gestapo?
Rudolf Diels (1933-1934) Reinhard Heydrich (1934-1942) Heinrich Muller (!942-1945)