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Gestapo

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Gestapo, acronym derived from Geheime Staatspolizei (State Secret Police), the organization with which Göring replaced the Prussian political police in 1933. In 1936 it became a branch of Heydrich's security police (see Sipo), which re mained within the ministry of the interior, but in September 1939, when the RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) was formed as a main office of the SS, it became its department (Amt) IV.

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