GESTAPO (Geheime Staatspolizei - state secret police) - this very word terrified the whole of Europe, becoming a symbol of political terror and severe repression. Created to “expose all trends dangerous to the state and fight against them,” this special service was endowed with virtually unlimited powers - its agents not only had the right to search activities, searches and arrests of Feinde des Deutschen Volk (“enemies of the German people”), but also carried out sentences. Total control over society and supervision of Die verdächtigen Personen (“suspicious persons”), identifying opponents of the regime and terror against Ostarbeiter (“Eastern workers”), hunting for Jews and destroying the color of the German officers after the assassination attempt on Hitler - This book traces the secret activities of the Gestapo from its creation to the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, which outlawed this criminal organization.