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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 ...
Category for undercover agents of the Gestapo, itself an undercover organisation, in World War II. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. I.
Gestapo agents (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Gestapo personnel" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total.
During the war, the Hamburg Gestapo broke up several resistance groups: In October 1942, the activities of the Bästlein-Jacob-Abshagen Group were uncovered, after which over 100 members of this resistance group were arrested by the Gestapo. Over 70 of the detainees died after their arrest, were executed or murdered by Gestapo agents. [55]
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 ...
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 ...
Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, GC, MC* (17 June 1902 – 26 February 1964), known as "Tommy", [1] was a British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in the Second World War. Codenamed "Seahorse" and "Shelley" in the SOE, Yeo-Thomas was known by the Gestapo as "The White Rabbit".
Unlike the other departments, it was not under the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, but rather the local Gestapo office or after September 1939, Amt IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). The department head and deputy were usually officers of the Gestapo or Kripo, or were members of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).