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Twelve Years, Twelve Million. The word Gestapo was the creation of an anonymous postoffice clerk who used it as an abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), Hermann Goring's name for the gang of Luger-toting bully boys who accompanied him into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of Night & Fog | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Henker. This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both. But Reinhard Heydrich is the man of brains and the man of action of the Geheime Staatspolizei, better and more darkly known as the Gestapo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Pattern of Conquest | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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