THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC AND NAZI GERMANY

The Waffen SS, which were the elite units in the armed forces. The Gestapo. The Gestapo. The Gestapo was the secret state police. They were under the overall control of the SS and were a branch of it. The head of the Gestapo was Reynhard Heydrich (1936 on), although when it was formed in 1933, it Hermann Goring was in charge of it. ................
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