other names for gestapo
The Geheime Staatspolizei (German for Secret State Police, abbreviated âGestapoâ) was the secret police of Nazi Germany, and its main tool of oppression and destruction, which persecuted Germans, opponents of the regime, and Jews.It later played a central role in helping carry out the Nazi's  Final Solution ..t the same time that Goring was organzing the Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler was directing the SS (Schutzstaffel, German for âProtective Echelonâ), Hitler's elite paramilitary corps. In April 1936, he was given command of the Gestapo as well, integrating all of Germany's police units under Himmler.