The Gestapo, 1933 to 19"......"?

Question:ie. They started in 1933, when did they dossolve, fall, end. Was at the end of the war in 1944? The war against Nazi Germany that is.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ie. They started in 1933, when did they dossolve, fall, end. Was at the end of the war in 1944? The war against Nazi Germany that is.

They ceased to work on the May 8th at 23:01 Central European Time, when Nazi Germany finally surrendered, ending World War Two in Europe.

Officially they were dissolved October 1st 1946, on the last day of the Nuremberg Trials along with the Nazi Party, Government Leadership, German General Staff and High Command, the remneants of the SA (who had been removed in 1934 during Night of the Long Knives),

The SS, who were tha main people responsibly for maintaing Germanys control over everything from schools to the death camps. The SD, who were the sister group of the SS, were also dissolved.

However there were over 2 million members in these groups and half of them were liable to go on trial. As many of them escaped, you could say that if they didn't renounce their ways in their eyes the Gestapo could still exist.

Hope this helps you.

Yes--they fell along with Nazi Germany, but their methods and tactics live on in other totalitarian societies, unfortunately. The Securitate (in Romania during the Nicolae Ceausescu era) was actually modeled after the Gestapo.

According to Wikipedia, the Gestapo ceased to exist after the Nuremberg trials in 1949. However, for all practical purposes it ceased to exist in 1945. It was considered such an enemy of not only the people of the occupied nations but of Germans as well that many of its members and those who collaborated with it were summarily hanged before they could be taken by official authority... i.e. the Allied Powers occupying Germany.

Actually, the Gestapo, which was the main part of the
Schutzstaffeln, or "protecion squads", disbanded in August 1945, V-E Day, when the Third Reich (with, of course, its leader, Adolf Hitler), had to officially surrender to the Allies, ending World War II for good in the European Theater.

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