Gestapo headquarters, Berlin

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Gestapo headquarters, Berlin was the central office of Nazi Germany’s secret state police, notorious as a key site of political repression, surveillance, and torture during the Third Reich.


Statements (45)
Predicate Object
instanceOf government building
secret police headquarters
site of Nazi persecution
associatedWith Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller
Heinrich Himmler
Reinhard Heydrich
category Nazi architecture in Berlin
political repression in Nazi Germany
sites of Nazi crimes in Germany
condition destroyed
country Nazi Germany
demolished after 1945
hasPart administrative offices
former prison cells (basement)
interrogation rooms
heritageStatus site of memory
historicalSignificance symbol of Nazi state terror in Berlin
inception 1933
locatedIn Berlin
Germany
Prinz-Albrecht-Straße area
locatedNear former Reich Security Main Office buildings
former SS headquarters
notableFor central role in Nazi terror system
widespread human rights abuses
operatedBy Gestapo
Reich Main Security Office
partOf Nazi security apparatus
Reich Security Main Office complex
presentUse documentation center
memorial site
replacedBy Topography of Terror documentation center (on the site)
significantEvent expansion after creation of Reich Main Security Office in 1939
streetAddress Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8
subjectOf historical research on Nazi repression
memorial exhibitions about Gestapo crimes
timePeriod Third Reich
usedFor coordination of persecution of Jews
coordination of persecution of other targeted groups
detention of political prisoners
interrogation
political repression
surveillance
torture
victimOf Allied bombing in World War II

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Reich Security Main Office complex ("Gestapo headquarters in Berlin")
associatedWith
Gestapo
associatedWithBuilding
Prinz-Albrecht-Straße area ("Gestapo headquarters")
housedInstitution

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