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within six years of its inception the

Gestapo had grown from a regional secret

police force into a crucial element in

the rise and expansion of the Third

Reich

under the guidance of its shadowy

director I'm dick moolah it had evolved

into an instrument of terror whose

success in crushing resistance to Hitler

was unequaled by 1939 few people in Nazi

Germany dared risk opposing the Fuhrer

or the Reich this was Hitler's primary

objective as it had been so dazzlingly

well achieved he was ready to move ahead

unhindered by opposition to the next

step of his master plan the Gestapo was

graduating to a new role on a new

international stage

I am the man who started the war an

incredible claim be cynical if you like

it's true I was the triggerman who lit

the fuse to Europe in 1939 there was a

specific incident which began the chain

reaction of bloodshed and violence and

of course there had to be one man to

engineer the incident I was that man

the night of the 31st of August 1939

eastern Germany a handful of trucks set

out on a secret mission

this was Operation Tannenberg executed

on direct orders from the security chief

Reinhard Heydrich and his deputy head of

the Gestapo Heinrich Mueller attention

had been mounting along the border

between Germany and Poland the German

press had reported multiple allegations

of polish provocation all of them

spurious Alfred Knox was a security

officer and a Gestapo command and later

was happy to describe the part he played

that night I was directed to go to

climates with five or six SD men and

wait there until I received a code word

from Heydrich

Knox was waiting for the codeword

grandma's dead when it came nigh ox and

his team swung into action Heydrich said

in order to carry out this attack report

it to Muller for canned goods

canned goods was code for a fresh corpse

which was duly collected then Knox and

his men stormed the local radio station

on the German side of the border

pretending to be Polish soldiers they

fired a few shots and a German speaking

in Polish made a broadcast urging the

local population to rise up against the

Nazis

the fake poles then disappeared leaving

the corpse behind except he wasn't quite

dead

I heard him laid down at the entrance to

the station he was alive but completely

unconscious I tried to open his eyes I

couldn't recognize by his eyes that he

was alive only by his breathing I didn't

see the shot wounds but there was a lot

of blood smeared across his face he was

in civilian clothes

the man was Francey check on iakh a

German citizen who had been arrested for

sympathizing with the poles he died

where Nayak's laid him and would be used

as proof of Polish aggression

Volta schellenberg a senior spymaster

and subsequent head of the German secret

service knew all about the plot it was

one of Hitler's secret orders by the 1st

of September 1939 if possible and

absolutely irreproachable calls for war

had to be created one that was found in

history as justification and would brand

Poland in the eyes of the world as the

aggressor against Germany elsewhere

along the border Muller made

arrangements for the delivery of more

canned goods in my presence Muller

discussed another border incident in

which it should be made to appear that

Polish soldiers were attacking German

troops

Mulla stated that he had twelve or

thirteen condemned criminals who were to

be dressed in Polish uniforms and left

dead on the ground at the scene of the

incident to show that they'd been killed

while attacking for this purpose they

were given fatal injections by a doctor

employed by Hydra they were then also to

be given gunshot wounds after the

assaults members of the press and other

persons who were to be taken to the

scene of the incident a police report

was subsequently to be prepared the

Gestapo stratagem worked faultlessly

within hours hitler denounced the total

of 21 supposin order incursions by

Polish troops and well I reckon idea

I didn't plan Otoniel oh nice a nice

billion put that on your custom the

newsreels triumphantly amplified

Hitler's battle craft

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- after Eva shuttle driver one example

tonight from London

that's if they drink it was indeed the

beginning of war and not only on the

eastern front only I was previously

Great Britain that reaffirmed its

solidarity with Poland and would

inevitably be drawn into the conflict

this is exactly what Hitler intended

he was militarily well-prepared and the

Gestapo had been working toward this

moment for many months but Hitler was

not just taking his army to war he was

taking his police force designated

trains carried mullahs men to the

eastern frontier a total of 131 thousand

offices in all they were organized and

led by the Gestapo for this was the

start of their new role quelling

Opposition in occupied territories in

Hitler's grand plan tanks and soldiers

were only the beginning their work was

to begin at once

the police waited with the army at the

border

among them was Heinrich Bob

everyday around 4 p.m. we left our

Gestapo unit so as to be at the border

on time for the war to begin the war

machines were already rolling of the

Polish army there was nothing to be seen

as the German armed forces swarmed

across the border squads of police and

SS security officers were ordered by the

Gestapo to complete the first task which

was to liquidate the entire local

leadership structure from there they

moved on to the streets and local police

units were drawn in to help them normal

ID checks became an instrument of

political oppression anyone who didn't

fit the Gustavo's approved profile

acceptable citizen was arrested on the

spot political protesters so-called

parasites intelligentsia and above all

the Jews were rounded up on mass in the

German press the role of the police was

played down but abroad the truth was

starkly reported the key difference

between the behavioristic star power

abroad and the kiss behavior to stop her

in Germany was that it's more worthless

because it's targeted on the foreign

resistance and on the foreign

ideological enemies above all the Jews

but also poles and Slavs the Gestapo

trademark was unmistakable the strategy

was to encourage the poles to indulge a

long-held inclination to anti-semitism

denouncing and attacking their own

countrymen and in effect doing the

Gestapo offices work for them

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those arrested were immediately deported

to newly assembled concentration camps

in the east modeled on Himmler's

original camp on the outskirts of Munich

Dachau the combined power of the fair

mocked and the Gestapo was overwhelming

within weeks

Warsaw fell to the Nazis I was shocked

at what had become of a beautiful city I

had known ruined and burnt out houses

starving and grieving people a pall of

dust hung over the city and everywhere

there was the Swedish smell of burnt

flesh everything was quiet Warsaw was a

dead City

the Gestapo had proved it's worth from

the moment Warsaw capitulated it would

be the key to German control over all

their newly occupied territories and

form the bedrock of all further Nazi

expansion the Gestapo for all its

success was still quite small and its

intelligence though extensive largely

second hand when the Gestapo failed it

failed spectacularly as a lone bombers

attack on Hitler was soon to prove its

unity often given in history over boy

Taylor the Fuhrer at the pazham nom

static quotes aside for a catastrophic

philosophy where they couldn't cable

give you please fill out them so head

remark plans I until ironic the

explosion was the heroic act of a lone

anti-fascist assassin the Gestapo had

not known about it or expected it nor

and they detected the planted bomb it

was a spectacular failure even for the

Gestapo Apple of the Fury's eye recovery

from such a disaster would not be easy

with a stopover at a loss but without

knowing it they had struck lucky but one

of their routine border controls earlier

in the day they had picked up a man

attempting to cross into Switzerland to

their surprise and relief they have the

assassin Georg Elser

already in custody Heinrich Mahler

conducted Elsa's interrogation himself

he was determined to redeem the

reputation of the Gestapo and take

sadistic and lingering revenge on Elsa

Milas lips were compressed and there was

a malevolent expression in his small

eyes they said very gently with great

emphasis I've never had a man in front

of me yet whom I did not break in the

end if Elsa had been given some of the

medicine he had had from me earlier on

he would never have tried this business

that was moolah the little Munich police

detective who now had practically

unlimited power moolah subjected Elsa to

what was called an intensified

interrogation

the Gestapo euphemism for torture in

addition his entire family was arrested

arrest of kin it was called it was the

latest Gestapo accomplishment no one

knew where these unfortunates were they

were not permitted to send to their

relations any indication that they were

still alive they themselves have no idea

where they were being kept they

deliberately spread the word that all

relations of traitors were being

executed they knew very well that

panicky terror this would create amongst

all those who'd ever had oppositional

ideas nevertheless in the end the

Gestapo conceded that Elsa had been

acting alone he was not executed just in

case he might still prove useful instead

he was imprisoned in saxon housing

concentration camp as hitler's special

prisoner and later transferred to Dachau

the swift resolution of the Beer Hall

bomb episode went someway to rescuing

the Gestapo reputation but ultimately

it's saving was that mullah Heydrich and

Himmler had made themselves

indispensable together they had an iron

grip over the entire German security

network and without their skills

Hitler's large-scale objectives would

have been placed in jeopardy

for as the Reich expanded across Europe

the Gestapo went with it playing a

pivotal role not only in a suppression

of political opposition but in

implementing Hitler's cherished ambition

the elimination of the Jews

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the plan was proceeding smoothly

throughout Germany ss-untersturmführer

curtly Jie who had proved a great

success in dealing with Jewish affairs

in the Berlin Gestapo was assigned to

continue the task in Cologne there he

soon filled his cells with dissident

suspects and began work on a scheme to

deport all the Jews from the city some

12,000 people but before he could finish

this job he was assigned a new posting

having demonstrated his efficiency he

was placed on the shortness for one of

the posts of combat administrator these

were the Gestapo Chiefs in the occupied

countries their mission was to introduce

tried and tested Gestapo methods to the

suppression of resistance abroad lishka

was given Paris he installed himself at

once in splendid offices in the Rue de

sousa a name that would become infamous

in French history exactly as he had in

Cologne he made the Gestapo in France

into an organization of fear and dread

there were fewer willing informers in

Paris than at home so lishka faced more

of a challenge there was a growing

well-organized resistance movement in

France his attacks were carefully

targeted and its successes together with

widespread anti-nazi propaganda kept

french pride alive and so kept the

gestapo very busy despite lishka x'

attempts to maintain his officers morale

paris was not an easy posting some of

Lycia cos problems arose from fellow

Germans who opposed their government and

had gone abroad to try and defeat it

among the anti-fascism France was Paton

jingled soir vicious tisha al see also

simple it was something important and

symbolic through our activity the French

knew that not every German was a Nazi

not every German was a fascist and there

were other Germans to San Francisco and

the Doge Gingold altered his appearance

and assumed a new identity

under the name Pierre gamba he and his

wife joined the struggle against the

Nazis in the area around evil his job

was to distribute pamphlets aimed at the

German army a high-risk activity that

didn't last long a dish Farid would I

was arrested by a Frenchman and then

immediately handed over to the Gestapo

skinny-fat Gingold knew the Gestapo

would torture him to make him reveal

everything about his organization but he

was prepared I was brought here with

four Gestapo men I wanted them to put me

in front of this door that was a trap

that I had somehow prepared before to

run into the house and to escape through

the other side you see we lived opposite

and I always had to go to the Baker's

they're going through this house it has

a passageway through and their opposite

was the Baker's that's how I knew this

house that made my escape possible

honey I knew I was running for my life I

went out through this door and down the

street to the right that's how it was

for us King gold escaped and returned to

the resistance he altered his appearance

again this time adding a pair of

spectacles in the mustache

the Gestapo never caught him others such

as Jakob Leonhardt a Swiss double agent

were not so lucky

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I was working in a panic by stabbing

pain as I tried to sit up and open my

eyes someone hit me hard over the head

there was a blocky SS man standing by my

bed behind him was another one with a

machine gun

get up you Pig he shouted hitting me in

the stomach with his caution winning me

they called me from my bed and ordered

me to get dressed beating me all the

while took my passport and belongings

and searched me for weapons from moment

I thought the one with a machine gun was

going to shoot me on the spot but the

other stopped him no don't we have to

take this one in I was bleeding from my

mouth my nose and my face was streaming

with blood and my head was already

swelling up I could hardly move they

dragged me to their car and drove me a

top speed through the city stopping at a

house with a sign over the door secret

state police Gestapo

Leonardo is taken into protective

custody

the Gestapo euphemism for political

arrest he protested his innocence to the

interrogating officer Helen Archie said

you know we have methods which would

certainly make you give us a confession

but I insisted I have nothing to confess

they blindfolded me and straightaway

they started to chop the back of my head

so that my face slammed into the wall my

glass is shattered and I felt a stabbing

pain in my eyes I staggered back but

they wouldn't give up until I collapsed

unable to move her brows torn cheeks

split open and a broken nose Helen

mozgov it was a Jewish resistance

fighter working undercover in the

brussels bestop office the word cellar

had frightful connotations at the

Gestapo it was a a torture chamber

worthy of the Inquisition

I heard loud scream so heart-rending

that I lost my head and impulsively ran

down towards their source the room to

the door was open and inside were two

torturers stripped to the waist whipping

a man who

chain to what looked like a butcher's

block his swollen body was beaten to a

pulp a mass of deep gash like welts and

bleeding sores when the torturers saw me

they stopped in astonishment and

demanded to know what the hell I was

doing there I snapped that the man's

Christ could be heard from upstairs and

what was the point of beating him to

death if he wouldn't talk in Paris

Kurt lishka had been given a new

assignment he was ordered to begin the

campaign to deport all the Jews from

France this was a job he felt he could

do really well when Paris was ultimately

liberated in 1944 the Gestapo had no

time to destroy their records before

hastily quitting the city the mountains

of abandoned documents are a testament

delicious industriousness he's very

pompous all so Lucilius oh I'll get his

file it's a very heavy file and show you

that he was in charge of the Gestapo in

France from 41 to 43 it's a proof that

the Jews who are under German authority

was sent to be exterminated without

delay Kuleshov don't prove our Hjalmar

though there were extra - your physique

sized

don't hear eliska's initials and his

signature he's read this document and

that's it Valeska

and the Jewish Question honker voila

suki concerned Escada or Dalek is Sophie

as a first step all the stateless Jews

would fled to France would be arrested

they weren't enough Gestapo officers to

accomplish this their neat solution was

to give the task to the French

collaborationist police working for

Vichy law in the documents that we have

published and all these books about the

final solution of the Jewish Question in

France we know today that 90% of the

Jews in France were arrested by the

French police under orders from the

German occupiers of course and here the

Gestapo naturally had a very very

important role to play in total 80,000

people were held at Drancy transit camp

and the Gestapo orders before being

deported from France to Auschwitz

but there was always more work for the

Gestapo to do they would soon be

organizing deportations from all the

nations of nazi-occupied Europe

it was 1941 and the war was going well

for Hitler the majority of the German

people intoxicated by the glory of his

victories continued to support the Nazi

regime with enthusiasm half of Europe

was under German control and many people

dreamed that peace would soon come with

all the European nations united under

the swastika

but Hitler had a different dream far

from seeking peace he planned to extend

the war and launch an attack on his most

hated enemy the Soviet Union and he was

eager to complete a policy already began

the ex termination of all the Jews

across Nazi occupied Europe the Gestapo

had been dealing with the Jewish problem

for some time but in a piecemeal fashion

they had already hit on one idea to

simplify matters to give undesirables

identifying labels for instance yellow

stars for Jews the beginning of 1942 saw

Heinrich Muller chief of the Gestapo

enroute to an important conference

outside Berlin a Reinhard Heydrich

Hitler's right-hand man had received

instruction to start all necessary

organizational practical and material

preparations for a complete solution for

the Jewish Question across the German

area of influence in Europe complete

solution actually meant genocide and the

Gestapo and the police forces they

controlled would put it into practice

Adolf Eichmann was the Jewish specialist

at the Reich Security office

iseman was an Austrian Nazi who

rose through the ranks of the SD in

Berlin to become one of the leading

figures in the Gestapo by the war he's

often being painted as a typical

faceless bureaucrat who has no

commitment to anything beyond the

discharge of his own functions but I

think it's important to recognize that -

is anything but an automaton a Sherman

was also an ideological believer who did

things not simply because he was told to

but because he was a fervent anti-semite

- Eichmann took minutes at the

conference as he later recalled during

his trial at Nuremberg Reinhard Heydrich

managed during the fancy conference to

get everyone to use such expressions as

kill exterminate and eliminate and have

their statements recorded in the minutes

pinning them down Heydrich then decided

what was going to come into the minutes

and what wasn't and then he polished it

up a bit and that was that the Fuhrer

had ordered the extermination of the

Jews that's what Hydra told me and then

unusually he paused for a long time as

he wanted to see the effect his words

would have

at last the plans were agreed just as if

this were an ordinary administrative

task of a civilized government after the

conference was over Heydrich Miller in

my own insignificant self sat down

comfortably in front of afar not to talk

shop just to have a rest

after the long exhausting hours the

importance of the conference though was

the defect that it was to help the

methods of the implementation of the

final solution was decided upon by it

must be said a bunch of second-string

bureaucrats not not the top Nath's it's

not Himmler I Goering Goebbels cetera

Heydrich the most important person there

and Eichmann's acting as his aide to

calm his taking the minutes of the

meeting but at the importance of the

conference's it's the discussion of the

implementation rather than decision to

do it that had been taken some time

before Eichmann sent out the conference

conclusions marked express and

top-secret to all Gestapo and Police

Services in the Reich this was the

official order that triggered the final

solution

the apparatus was systematically

prepared rounding up and transporting

millions of people was a complicated

business

the Gestapo responded as it had in the

past by drawing up lists lists of names

millions of human lives that were to be

terminated

it was the gestalt post-roll to round up

the Jews in every locality and to ship

them away they would write to the Jews

of any given community at the

appropriate point

tell them to assemble at the station

typically from whence they then be

deported and it's also the Gestapo which

is at the centre of organizing the

deportations overall so it's the Gestapo

which liaises with the rice railway

system to coordinate the transports by

train to the east the Gestapo drew upon

all assistance available to them Jewish

resistance fighter Alain muskie which

had infiltrated their ranks

I can't describe the fear I felt as I

stepped inside the dreaded Gestapo

building that morning until that moment

I hadn't really appreciated my position

a Belgian Jewish girl in the role of a

German fräulein flanked by a novice Tom

von Fuhrer the colonel in charge of the

Brussels Gestapo walking down long

hallways quietly past guard after guard

being greeted by the rapid fire Heil

Hitler salutes and clicking heels one of

her lens jobs was to prepare the lists

as usual the Gestapo got underlings to

do the work for them the notice

proclaimed that a reward of 40 Belgian

francs was to be given to any citizen

whose information led to the arrest of a

Jew when the letters began to pour in

they were referred to her office by the

sergeant eventually we had to place some

of the mail and they over strobe on

Fuhrer's desk where they accumulated

until a higher decision was made thanks

to all these delays and to the fact that

few two stayed long in one place a

number of those reported were able to

change their hideouts before the Gestapo

reached them but too many failed to get

away on one of the lists was the my

family from votes Berg including Ludvig

the father nearly the mother and their

12 year old son Herbert

- darkest er some brief could come as

well so a letter came telling us to be

at such-and-such a time at the concert

hall we're allowed to bring one suitcase

and a little food or some such

my parents have obeyed they didn't say

we're not doing that you didn't do that

you did what you were told

so all the Jews in verts Berg went to

the hall early in the morning without

asking why or for what that was like a

star poo everywhere across the Reich the

Gestapo supervised the removal of Jews

neighbors and friends look Tom but saw

nothing

Albertine schism well I'd say that

people simply looked away they wanted to

be able to say later but they didn't see

anything but they did see it they just

didn't want to see it in many cases

these neighbors would have turned the

Jews in themselves though at least in

Brussels there would be some retribution

and after a while the informers began

calling to collect their forty francs

we decided that each Informer would need

an appointment to collect his money this

enabled us to write down the names and

addresses of the informers which we

wrote on a list to be related to the

resistance to be filed for future

reference and retribution sometimes even

after the war as instructed the 850 Jews

of Watts burg gathered at the concert

hall on the 25th of April 1942 they

waited for further instructions amid the

familiar signs of normal life there were

posters up for the following night's

concert a sold-out show featuring Ville

Helms three aunts a singer of

sentimental songs for those who

assembled here this was the last they

would see of anything either comforting

or no

few would ever see their homes or their

homeland ever again

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19:42 and the Gestapo throughout the

Reich and its occupied territories were

frantically busy organizing deportations

in votes burg 852 Jews have been

summoned to assemble outside the towns

concert hall the supervising Gestapo

officers made an album for their own

entertainment

they made captions mocking their victims

the longer the day the finer the guests

the best-looking among the chosen people

sarah has to do some work for once in

the waiting crowd stood the my family

over there over night or two nights one

morning it was just get out and we were

marched off through the town to the

railway station

my parents continuously instilled in me

that everything is okay don't worry

child you okay we are here and try to to

which stated that I was not afraid

because they took care of me and they

were there and then everything able to

be fine and I believe that and I didn't

think of anything bad planning was as

ever

Farah a meticulous the concert hall was

divided into different sections for men

and women families were split up never

to be reunited Gestapo officers

supervised the whole undertaking some of

them in plain clothes

Oswald Gundlach the senior criminal

assistance the votes burger staffer also

took part in the deportation in 1922 he

had joined the Bavarian Provincial

Police Force and then in 1933 the

Gestapo later he was to claim that he

was transferred against his will and

that all the tasks he fulfilled were

perfectly normal and acceptable policing

duties

gunda Lac was ordered to accompany the

852 Jews to the railway freight station

a total of six deportation waves were

sent out from the station 2063 Jews in

all the operation ran like clockwork

most of the passengers believed they

were going to be resettled

the cross Eden vampire

my grandparents were on the second

transport from Nuremberg to his Bitzer

in Poland in March 42 I know that the

father of my mother accompanied her

right up to the collection point at

langmaster station where they were then

deported and like Roslin along was a

bahnhof was it an absence partly

advancing I said Nevada my own severe I

must say well we thought they would be

put together in a ghetto somewhere and

maybe there would be the possibility of

coming together again later so some in

sacramental acts especially evacuation

transport train number da for nine

lumbered through Germany on its way to

the Lublin district of Poland it took a

painfully slow four days to get there

picking up more and more deportees

enroute guna lacks report recorded the

special trains journey in typical

bureaucratic style the transport was

delivered complete there were no

incidents no police action was required

it stated his report was handed to the

local Gestapo officer

the officer then sent a telegram

director Adolf Eichmann confirming the

arrival of gun deluxe transport train in

good order gun deluxe task ended at ease

bitsa he was free to return but not so

his consignment

his beat sir is a tiny village south of

Lublin in eastern Poland near the

Ukrainian border it was at the heart of

operation Reinhard a special operation

direct from the desk of crime McKinley

the aim was for two million Jews to be

exterminated in this area of Poland his

bid sir was set up to be a transit

ghetto because it was situated

conveniently at the junction of the rail

network that linked the death camps at

Belzec and Sobibor to the south and

minor neck and Treblinka to the north

Himmler himself paid a visit to the

village the place played an important

role in his vast project at his side

stood the local east beat sir Gestapo

chief Kurt Angle's angles began his

career as a policeman in Cologne in 1940

he arrived in his beat sir as the local

Gestapo chief Angles was a brutal sadist

for recreation he used to ride around

the village on his motorbike looking for

Jews to shoot he fabrica albeit it in a

vexed at I worked in a garage and then

angle to your common Pizza when a it's

becoming hot when angles came to his

beat sir

we had a motorbike a BMW he came into

the garage where I worked with a friend

wolf wolf so I had to clean his

motorbike all the time

puts a recommend for the motorcycle but

he found people Jews everyday and took

them up to the cemetery and shot Hassan

and the feet off they said about angles

that he couldn't have breakfast before

he had shot a Jew early each morning

he'd run out of his house and run around

till he saw a face he didn't like they

said he always laughed when he shot on

the evening of the 28th of April when

good relax train from boots Berg arrived

it was Angles who received the

consignment of deputies however its lead

sir was already full and a backlog

further up the line prevented him from

sending the train load of human cargo on

to the death camps Angles thought of a

simple solution to his problem he

organized and took part in the mass

shooting of several thousand Jews who

were on the train the my family survived

this savage on salt only to perish later

in labor camps Herbert was the only one

who lived to see the end of the wall

back in votes Berg the Gestapo kept

meticulous accounts every expense was

rigorously logged down to the last

fennec this particular transport

including transportation costs guards

travel overnight expenses and

electricity was invoiced at fifty two

thousand nine hundred and thirty three

rush mark and for thinik that's about

one hundred and thirty thousand pounds

in today's money working together the

Gestapo and the police force combed

German occupied Europe to deliver more

loads of human beings to his beat sir

over the following two years one and

three-quarter million people were

transported to the death camps via this

route they could not have been done

without the zealous work of the Gestapo

but very soon a blow would fall that

would shake all the Nazi security forces

to their foundations

may 1942 reinhard heydrich head of the

reich security office was rewarded for

his fervid loyalty to hitler by being

posted to prague as a Reich protector in

other words absolute ruler the glory

suited his vanity and he had devised a

straightforward solution to the stubborn

Czech resistance that he encountered at

his new posting he simply led the

Gestapo off the leash they made hundreds

of arrests and at Heydrich bidding

carried out summary executions in the

streets making a big show of public

slaughter but the Gestapo became

overconfident and the crackdown had the

opposite effect of what was intended

resistance hardened Hydra Prout to his

office in Prague Castle and a

convertible flying his personal pennant

one day Czech resistance fighters threw

a bomb into the open car the Reich

protector was wounded but not killed

outright a passerby called an ambulance

and Heydrich died later in hospital

the Gestapo once again and failed in the

most public and humiliating way Heydrich

SAS a summation sent shockwaves

reverberating through Germany I was

endure for Alemanni he'll get a shaft

number photo honk if you Leland amiran

Wolfe de praga book a name's Eric Lee

Reinhard Heydrich for Weber his loss was

greatly felt by the Nazi leadership

Hitler was furious that he'd put himself

in a position an unguarded position that

he could be assassinated but I would say

that amongst the Nazi leadership there

was also a terrific sigh of relief

because here was somebody that was

feared even by the Nazi leaders

themselves they all thought that this

person was so ruthless that nobody was

safe from him Heinrich Muller a Gestapo

chief had to take charge personally once

again the intelligence failure was

addressed without delay the

investigation was carried out with all

the resources of modern detective

science the official directive stated

that the assassins were members of the

Czech resistance movement many suspects

were arrested and all known hideouts

raided the reports read like the script

of an exciting film

in the absence of specific hard evidence

the Gestapo chose a saturation approach

to punishment 13,000 Czechs were

arrested in the next days and 600

executed in the village of lead Itza all

the men were shot in a 10-hour massacre

the women and children were deported to

death camps days later another village

was razed to the ground through the

ruthlessness of the Gestapo 120 members

of the Czech resistance were rounded up

in a small Church in Prague where they

were besieged I went to see mullah he

said tomorrow we'd take the church let's

hope the murderers are with the ones

inside the next day an all-out attack

was launched against the Church of the

Czech resistance fighters not one fell

into German hands alive a floodgate of

revenge had been opened while Hitler

buried Heydrich in Berlin violence and

terror spread through the East the

Gestapo and regular police forces

involved in operation Reinhard why

diverted in order to take part in the

massacres among the number was Oswald

gondola later he insisted that these

were carefully coordinated operations

against partisans

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the latest viewer abanda we are the

organized in Strafford supérieur

Murphy's house GABA

isquite only became function Brandon he

writes teen study schlub finger lock on

that moon gained an heightened applet

sight some concentration anger for

Tahira and spawn a gift outcomes given

in vague to the mutant botanist in

brighter front vertical in the door she

came Lublin in Poland in November 1943

operation Harvest Festival was launched

up until the days of the Czech massacres

the Gestapo had not been systematic

executioner's they had simply delivered

their victims into the hands of others

and washed their hands of the matter but

in operation harvest festival they were

confirmed in their new role as murderers

the Gestapo killed 43 thousand Jews in

Lublin Gestapo units had turned into

death squads

individual officers describe their new

tasks in their letters and diaries if

the victims didn't want to do what they

were supposed to they'd be beaten many

of them came quietly to the execution

spots they had no choice

it was always so strange as the victims

fell into the ditch they didn't fall

over in the same way but sometimes

rocked sometimes fell in a regular order

into the ditch I'm not fond of shooting

defenseless people even if they're only

Jews

I prefer open combat well goodnight my

sweet

the war had wrought a change in the

tightly run clinically organized Gestapo

the unblinking extinction of human life

had become routine a door had been

opened gestapo brutality was primed a

spiral out of control as it's focused

attention turned to scrutinized Germany

itself

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