On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler takes power in Germany. The intimidation and elimination of any opposition begins immediately. Since the police cannot yet be fully called upon to do this, Hitler deploys his paramilitary troops.
With Hitler's wars of aggression, the Gestapo extended its claim to power to all of Europe. Whether in Prague, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris or in the Polish ghettos - it develops its murderous activities everywhere. It is captured, tortured, killed. The so-called "operational groups".
In the final months of the war, the Gestapo's machinery of violence was largely pushed back to the "Old Reich". The Gestapo is given a new task: to ensure that the home front holds - at all costs. "Dissidents", critics and opponents of the regime are to be "eliminated".
