Gestapo

CHAPTER FIVE From the Rohm Putsch to Domestic Dominance The year 1934 marked yet another major transition for Himmler and the SS. Not unlike the SS's beginning in 1925 and Himmler's takeover of the organization in 1929, the power struggle of 1934 was a pivotal point in Himmler's growing power base. The extent of Himmler's intelligence network and police control continued to expand over the next five years. Were these areas the most critical to establishing the SS as the definitive domestic…

lonely and she will never be able to change that. After the Holocaust was over, Jeannine’s sister told her everything that happened after she moved. She found out that some neighbours snitched on her family and the Gestapo broke down the door to where her parents were sleeping. The Gestapo took her father. They wanted to take her mother but she refused to leave as she was saying Jeannine’s mother went to hide in a nursing home out in the country, she was working there as a practical nurse. Due…

Sorge (“With burning concern”) , an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, which confiscating of copies by the Gestapo or the work of individuals like Cardinal Galen, who publically attacked the Nazi, revealing the secret killing of the handicapped and by his actions alone put an end to the euthanasia programme. There is further explanation seen to why the Church through to be targeted with the response of the Gestapo and the forceful reactions of the authority resulting in arresting and being sent for…

Since, “Hiding a Jew in Poland was a capital crime.” (Cerami 13) John knew he was risking his life. However, John Damski knew her fate if the Gestapo caught her, “Whenever the Gestapo came everybody was scared; you never knew what they would do. They could take you with them, and that would be that.”(Land-Weber 266) He fell in love with her and later married her. At this time, John had already helped a lot of…

Nancy Wake: The White Mouse Standing Up to Hitler Grace-Nancy Wake Kate-Guard, Narrator Addy-Violette Jadyn-Henri Fiocca, Narrator Helen-Narrator, Winston Churchill Helen: Nancy Wake was a true hero. She took a huge stand. Sadly, so few know about her. This is her untold story. We open in Wellington, New Zealand, where Nancy Wake grew up. She was born in 1912, and ran away from home at age 16. Nancy Wake led her life from that point on. She moved to Paris, France, in order to become…

Hermann Goering, born in Germany in 1893, was one of the leaders of the Nazi party. He organized the Nazi police force and established concentration camps. He fought in World War I and distinguished himself as a pilot, and he is credited with shooting down twenty-two allied aircrafts. He was known as a war hero, and that prestige made him a prime recruit for the Nazi party. “Nazism offered Goering the promise of action, adventure, and an outlet for his unreflective, elemental hunger for…

Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, once said “The masses have to be won by propaganda.” This quote exemplifies one of the ruling methods utilized by both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin ruled Russia from 1924 to 1953, while Adolf Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. Given that Joseph Stalin ruled for more years than Adolf Hitler, one may reasonably conclude that the impact of Stalin’s rule would be greater than that of Hitler. However, Hitler was much more impactful on his…

in a shop maybe?” Jack panted as three teenagers slowed to a quick walk down a Berlin street. David and Hannah hurried along behind Jack while scolding him for such and absurd idea. They couldn’t stop until they reached safety. Running from a gestapo was difficult work and it would be too long before they could find a safe house or forest to duck into. They were Jews which somehow made them criminals in their world of 1940 Germany. Another threat was the British bombers who constantly flew…

To which I answered: have not stolen anything. The man at the time states: how a dog of the German police of trains walks with three Jewish children? Yesterday the Gestapo stopped in Lamastre's road a group of children on a bus. And he added; All Jewish children and three children escaped together with a dog. The militia and the Gestapo equally that the police at the headquarters of Tournon Sur Rhone not resting up to recovering the dog of the police of trains and up to finding these three…

Hermann Goering, born in 1893, was a leading Nazi official. An abuser of power, he was cruel and ruthless. It didn’t matter if you were for or against the Nazis. If you got in his way or threatened his reign, he would make sure you were no longer a problem. His violent way of ruling, only made worse by a morphine addiction, caused the death of many. He played a key role in the creation and horrors of Nazism. In 1922, when Goering heard Hitler speaking, it was “a political love at first sight”.…