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The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, was established.

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Gestapo

Secret police of Nazi Germany

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo ( ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
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Secret police

Intelligence agency which operates in secrecy

Secret police are police, intelligence, or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government's political, ideological, or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. They protect…
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Nazi Germany

German state from 1933 to 1945

Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or…
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