Word: sicherheitsdienst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal takeover of the German state in 1933. Next year the Gestapo, which never exceeded 40,000, became a part of Heinrich Himmler's black-uniformed SS (Schutz Staff el) and Reinhard ("The Hangman") Heydrich's intelligence branch of the same outfit, the dreaded SD (Sicherheitsdienst). Hitler deliberately confused the powers and duties of these services in order to divide and control Himmler, Heydrich and other aides who never ceased to intrigue against each other and frequently arrested and killed weaker rivals. But Gestapo remained the generic term for the instrument which (according to Nürnberg estimates...
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