Gestapo: Timeline

1933   Gestapo established.

1937   Gestapo arrests priest Martin Niemöller.

1943   Lucie Aubrac and others in her French Resistance cell liberate Raymond Aubrac from Gestapo imprisonment

1944   Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch Netherlands

The Netherlands is the Europe [i]an part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands [i] , which is formed ... 

 informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam Amsterdam

, the official capital [i] of the Netherlands [i], lies on the banks of two bodies of water, the IJ bay [i] ... 

 warehouse where they find Jew Jew

Jews are followers of Judaism [i] or, more generally, members of the Jewish people , an ethno [i] ... 

ish diarist Anne Frank Anne Frank

Anneliese Marie "Anne" Frank was a German [i]-born Jew [i]ish girl who wrote a diary [i] while i ... 

 and her family.

1945   Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel [i] and one of the most po ... 

, the head of the Nazi Nazism

National Socialism, commonly shortened to Nazism or Naziism, originated as a fascist [i] mo ... 

 Gestapo, commits suicide in British custody.

1946   Nuremberg Trials: Founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi Nazism

National Socialism, commonly shortened to Nazism or Naziism, originated as a fascist [i] mo ... 

 war criminal, Hermann Göring Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Gring was a German [i] politician [i] and military [i] leader, a leading membe ... 

, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.