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The Gestapo was a secretive plainclothes agency and agents typically wore civilian suits. There were strict protocols protecting the identity of Gestapo field personnel. When asked for identification, an operative was required only to present his warrant disc and not a picture identification. This disc identified the operative as a member of ...
Gestapo agents (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Gestapo personnel" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total.
Jacques Desoubrie (22 October 1922 – 20 December 1949) [1] was a double agent who worked for the Gestapo during the German occupation of France and Belgium during World War II. [2] He infiltrated resistance groups, such as the Comet Line , and was responsible for the arrest of several leaders and more than 100 members of organizations (called ...
By 1935, Wesemann had become a Gestapo agent and conducted the first known kidnapping outside Germany by the Nazis. This was the kidnapping of German pacifist journalist Berthold Jacob in Basel , Switzerland , on 9 March 1935.
Reinhard Heydrich was appointed chief of the SiPo and was already head of the party Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD) and the Gestapo. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1936, the Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei was founded by Himmler, in order to create a centralized command office under Nazi control of the German criminal investigation and secret state police ...
Gestapo informants (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Gestapo agents" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
At great risk, Yeo-Thomas assisted Lamason in getting word out of the camp to the German Luftwaffe of the airmen's captivity, knowing that RAF prisoners of war were the responsibility of the Luftwaffe, not of the Gestapo. [10] He had to don many disguises, as well as shooting an enemy agent point blank with a pistol, to escape.