Amt IV

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Amt IV was the Gestapo (Secret State Police) department within Nazi Germany’s Reich Main Security Office, responsible for political repression, surveillance, and persecution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Gestapo department
department of the Reich Main Security Office
alternativeName Gestapo
buildingUsed Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin
surface form: Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8 complex in Berlin
containsSubunit Referat IV B4
cooperatedWith Kripo
surface form: Kripo (Criminal Police)

Sicherheitsdienst
surface form: SD (Sicherheitsdienst)

SS
country Nazi Germany
dateFormed 1939
dissolved 1945
employed Gestapo
surface form: Gestapo officers

SS personnel
criminal police personnel
fullNameGerman Reich Main Security Office
surface form: Amt IV – Geheime Staatspolizei
headedBy Heinrich Müller
headquartersLocation Berlin
historicalSignificance central organ of Nazi political terror
ideology Nazism
surface form: National Socialism
IV B4Role responsible for Jewish affairs and deportations
jurisdiction German Empire
surface form: German Reich

occupied territories to varying degrees
legalStatusPostwar declared criminal organization at Nuremberg (as part of Gestapo/RSHA structures)
notableOfficer Adolf Eichmann
opposedBy Allied intelligence services
German resistance groups
oversaw political police in the German states
participatedIn Holocaust
Nazi crimes against humanity
partOf Reich Main Security Office
responsibleFor coordination of the political police
counter-espionage within Germany
persecution of Jews
persecution of other targeted groups
persecution of political opponents
police intelligence
political repression in Nazi Germany
state security
suppression of resistance
surveillance of the population
subordinateTo HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler

Reich Main Security Office
surface form: Reich Security Main Office
usedMethod arbitrary arrest
deportation of victims
extrajudicial killings
secret informant networks
surveillance and wiretapping
torture during interrogations

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