What is the difference between the SS and the Gestapo?

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What is the difference between the SS and the Gestapo?

They both served for/under Hitler, but is there any clear difference between them? Thanks.

Answer 1

Would it surprise you,that there was never more than 300 members of the Gestapo at any one time.Thier duties were Reich security and the conquered territories.Plus keeping the various branches of the Reich military under surveillance.This organisation was started by Goering in Prussia.Goering refused to hand control to Himmler.So Hitler decreed it should go to Heydrich
The SS were Initially Hitler's guard.(ceremonial)After the purge against the SA(E.Rohm)that unit(brown shirts)was disbanded.Due to the manipulations of Heydrich the SS was built into a miltary force of 1000000 men.Within the SS were 4 intelligence groups,the RHSA,SD,SIPO and the SV.All of these intelligence groups and the Gestapo were under the sole command of Heydrich.Who was(Heydrich)Himmler's deputy.Himmler was Reichsfuerer and in charge of the SS.The duties of the various groups were RHSA,attached to foreign embassies.SD the same duties in conquered lands.SIPO the arrest and execution of malcontents(mainly jews)The SV were SS personel attached to the invading forces who could read,write and speak the language of the conquered country.Generally they were with the local police forces as overseers.

Answer 2

Gestapo Vs Ss

Answer 3

The SS was, amongst other things, responsible for the internal security of the Reich. Its security apparatus included the SD (intelligence gathering), the Gestapo (arresting authority), crimial (investigation) police, and regular police. So, the Gestapo was an SS organisation; however membership of the Gestapo (or any other Police organisation) wasn t restricted to members of the SS. A Gestapo officer worked for an SS organisation, but wasn t necessarily a member of the SS.

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The Gestapo ( Ge heime Sta ats po lizei ) was the State Police Organization of Nazi Germany. When Goering became Minister for Prussia in '33, he developed Dept 1A of the Prussian State Police but in April '34 ( after political intrigue from Himmler ) had to hand over control of what was now known as the Gestapo to the SS. Himmler placed Reinhard Heydrich at the head of the organization, which became feared throughout Occupied Europe for its' ruthless and efficient ( or brutal ) methods of tracking down 'enemies of the State'.

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What is the difference between the SS and the Gestapo?
What is the difference between the SS and the Gestapo?

They both served for/under Hitler, but is there any clear difference between them? Thanks.

Answer 6

Gestapo was the official police and intelligence branch. The
SS was elite Nazi armed forces. The SS were more politically motivated by Nazi party ideals than the regular Army. Most of Hitler's terror policies were carried out by this group. Think like this: Gestapo would round them up and the SS did most of the executions. Side note: The Gestapo was also one of the founding police forces of Interpol.

Answer 7

The SS (Schutsstaffel) was a paramilitary, and later military organization, that started as Hitler's bodyguards. It later fielded combat formations. The Gestapo (Geheimestatspolizei) was a secret police force.

Answer 8

SS stood for Schutzstaffel or Security Services. Gestapo was short for Geheime Staatspolizei or Secret State police.
Gestapo operated under SS administration.

If your fiancee's grandfather was a member of either one - break it off!!

Answer 9

The Gestapo (help·info) (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei: “secret state police”) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany
The Waffen-SS ("Armed SS") was the combat arm of the Schutzstaffel. Headed by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the Waffen-SS saw action throughout the Second World War. A small percentage of its nearly 1 million men were charged with war crimes at Nuremberg.
both sentences from the Wikipedia articles on each subject.

Answer 10

The Gestapo (help·info) (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei: “secret state police”) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Under the overall administration of the Schutzstaffel (SS), it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) (“head office of the reich security service”) and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (“security service”) and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO) (“security police”).

Answer 11

jiri z and jewel were the only ones to get it right. The overall administration was the SS headed by Reichsfuhrer Himmler. The subordinate organizations included the

-Gestapo (secret police)
-SD (foreign intelligence service)
-Waffen SS (armed formations)
-Einsatzgruppen (sp)
-Death Camp guards
and many others, one that sticks out in my mind was the ones in charge of racial purity, i cant remember their names.