THE GESTAPO

ABOUT THE GESTAPO

• German Nazi Secret Service
• Organized in 1933 after nazis gained power
• Had its own courts, judge, jury and executioner

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE JEWS.

• Starved or worked to death
• Medical experiments tested on many of the jews
• Escaping led to death penalties
• Hundreds were packed into gas chambers and
• Burned dead or alive in creamitoriums.

SOLDIERS

• Units were taught many torture techniques
• 2 Gestapo police in Nazi Germany
• Could kill whenever they wanted with no reason
• Could not be tried for anything (no consequences)

PURPOSE?

• To hunt out people considered a threat
• Eliminate all Jewish people

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER

• After WW2 very few members of the SS were brought to trial

FUN FACTS

• New SS members would beat the jews
• Gestapo name came from the first few letters of Geheme Staats Polizei
• Anyone who refused to work would be shot and killed right away

SOURCES

• Jewishvirtuallibrary.org
• Historyplace.com