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Gestapo
Gestapo see secret police .
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People to watch.(The Unsleeping Eye: A Brief History of Secret Police and their Victims)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Unsleeping Eye: A Brief History of Secret Police and their Victims, by Robert J. Stove...which never lets us forget that the secret police is one of the greatest evils of modern...nation-state is indivisible from the growth of secret police; a truly Faustian bargain. And yet...
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What Do You Do With a Used Secret Police Agent?;Issue of How Harshly to Deal With Disbanded Force Divides Prague's New Leaders
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/11/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...influence of the now-disbanded Communist secret police has divided Czechoslovak society, pitting...initials by which the once all-pervasive secret police organization is known. Acrimonious and often murky arguments, focusing on secret police files that allegedly document the ...
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Afghan secret police try to burn their past
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/30/1991; ; 308 words
; KABUL The Afghanistan secret police are using an incinerator to destroy...officials acknowledged that the secret police began burning sensitive records...President Najibullah headed the secret police from 1980 until 1986. He refuses...
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E. German Communists hit // Disband secret police, foes demand
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/9/1990; ; 451 words
; ...rejecting assurances that the hated secret police had been disbanded. The opposition...scheduled May 6. Most members of the secret police, the Stasi, are still at their posts...can provide firm assurances that the secret police are being broken up, the opposition...
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E. Germans raid secret police HQ
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/15/1990; ; 355 words
; ...headquarters of East Germany's hated secret police, and state television said the situation...reluctantly has agreed to disband the secret police, following massive protests from East...Honecker and the former head of the secret police would be indicted for high treason...
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Russian Hide-and-Seek: The Tsarist Secret Police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2005; ; 574 words
; Russian Hide-and-Seek: The Tsarist Secret Police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914. By Iain...monograph on the Okhrana, the tsar's secret police. Its subtitle would seem to imply a...analyzes in detail the duel between the secret police and the revolutionary terrorists, the...
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Arresting Biographies: The Secret Police File in the Soviet Union and Romania
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...research on personal files from the former secret police archives in Bucharest, I realized that...reader.1 Because my predecessor, the secret police archivist, had left thick pencil marks...manuscripts. If the suspicious gaze of the secret police had turned everything into ...
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Walesa fights claims that he was secret police informant
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/25/2008; ; 438 words
; ...ex-Solidarity trade union leader worked as a secret police informer under Communism. The potentially...are contained in a 780-page work, The Secret Police and Lech Walesa, which has been written...archive, which contains some 54 miles of secret police files covering most of Poland's ...
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Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 1/1/2000; 197 words
; Fontanka 16: The Tsars' Secret Police. Charles A Ruud and Sergei A...was the address of the Tsarist secret police from sometime in the 1830s to...This book shows how the use of a secret police force had been part of Russian...
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Polish Archbishop Admits Signing Communist Pact; Cleric Allegedly Cooperated With Secret Police
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/6/2007; ; 524 words
; ...an agreement to cooperate with the secret police during the Communist era and said he...he collaborated were written by the secret police and reflected their account of events...allegations of collaboration with the secret police before Communist rule ended in 1989...
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Gestapo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Gestapo █ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The Geheime Staatspolizei , or Gestapo, a German secret police force, was created in 1933 after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The Gestapo was created to help solidify Nazi control by identifying...
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Gestapo
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Gestapo The Nazi secret police or Geheime Staatspolizei . In 1933...reorganized the Prussian plain-clothes political police as the Gestapo. In 1934 control of the force passed to HIMMLER , who had...German states, and headed the SS or Schutzstaffel . The Gestapo was effectively absorbed into the SS and in ...
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Gestapo
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...states. Himmler was given command in 1934. The Gestapo operated without civil restraints, and its actions...concentration camps after being arrested by the Gestapo. In World War II the Gestapo suppressed partisan activities in the occupied...
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Gestapo
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
Gestapo •capo • Gestapo • Aleppo , depot • downtempo , tempo, uptempo •Expo • cheapo , Ipoh, peep-bo, repo •hippo • hypo , typo • oppo , topo, troppo •compo • Limpopo
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Gestapo
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Gestapo ( Ge heime Sta ats po lizei ) State secret-police of Nazi Germany. Founded in 1933 by Goering , it became a powerful, national organization under Himmler from 1934, as an arm of the SS . With up to 50,000 members by 1945, the Gestapo and SS ran the concentration camps .
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