Reich Main Security Office

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Nazi security agency government intelligence agency

The Reich Main Security Office was Nazi Germany’s central security and intelligence agency, overseeing the Gestapo, SD, and criminal police under Heinrich Himmler.

Aliases (18)

Reich Security Main Office ×5
RSHA ×3
Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) ×3
Reichssicherheitshauptamt ×3
Sicherheitsdienst ×2
German security authorities in the General Government ×1
German security police ×1
Nazi security and police apparatus ×1
Nazi security apparatus ×1
RSHA Amt III ×1
Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) (through Himmler) ×1
Reich Main Security Office at the Wannsee Conference ×1
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) ×1
SD-Inland (Amt III of RSHA) ×1
SS Reich Security Main Office ×1
Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ×1
Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ×1
former Reich Security Main Office buildings ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi security agency → government intelligence agency →
abbreviation	RSHA →
country	Nazi Germany →
dissolved	1945 →
foundedBy	Heinrich Himmler →
hasPart	Amt I → Amt II → Amt III → Amt IV → Amt V → Amt VI → Amt VII →
headOfGovernmentAgency	Ernst Kaltenbrunner → Reinhard Heydrich →
headquartersLocation	Berlin → Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8, Berlin →
ideology	Nazism →
inception	1939 →
jurisdiction	German-occupied Europe →
language	German →
location	Berlin →
nativeName	Reichssicherheitshauptamt →
notableEvent	coordination of Einsatzgruppen operations → implementation of racial policies → planning of mass deportations →
notableMember	Adolf Eichmann →
operatedDuring	Third Reich → World War II →
oversaw	Gestapo → Kriminalpolizei → Kripo → SD → Sicherheitsdienst →
parentOrganization	SS →
partOf	SS Main Offices →
precededBy	Geheime Staatspolizei → Kriminalpolizei → Sicherheitsdienst →
responsibleFor	coordination of the Holocaust → intelligence → persecution of Jews → political policing → state security → suppression of opposition →
subjectTo	Reichsführer-SS →
subordinateTo	Heinrich Himmler → Schutzstaffel →
typeOfJurisdiction	federal agency →

Referenced by (58)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ausland-SD → Einsatzgruppen → Einsatzgruppen ("RSHA") → Inland-SD → Inland-SD ("Reichssicherheitshauptamt") → Kripo ("Reich Security Main Office") → Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement ("German security authorities in the General Government") → Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia authorities ("Reich Security Main Office") → Reinhard program authorities → SD → SD ("RSHA") →	subordinateTo
Adolf Eichmann → Christian Wirth → Eberhard Schöngarth → Otto Ohlendorf → Walter Schellenberg →	employer
Białystok Ghetto ("German security police") → Chełmno extermination camp → Gestapo headquarters, Berlin → Kulmhof an der Nehr → Sobibor ("Reich Security Main Office") →	operatedBy
Chief of the Reich Main Security Office → Gestapo → Gestapo headquarters, Berlin ("Nazi security apparatus") → Kripo → SS Security Service (SD) ("Reich Main Security Office (RSHA)") →	partOf
Prinz-Albrecht-Straße area ("SS Reich Security Main Office") → Prinz-Albrecht-Straße area →	housedInstitution
Reich Main Security Office ("Reichssicherheitshauptamt") → SS Security Service (SD) ("Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS") →	nativeName
Chief of the Reich Main Security Office → Reich Main Security Office ("Sicherheitsdienst") →	oversaw
Gestapo → SS Security Service (SD) ("Reich Main Security Office (RSHA)") →	parentOrganization
Schutzstaffel → Schutzstaffel ("Sicherheitsdienst") →	subOrganization
Reich Main Security Office ("RSHA") →	abbreviation
Rudolf Lange →	affiliation
Inland-SD ("RSHA Amt III") →	associatedWith
SS →	branch
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories →	collaboratedWith
Reichsführer-SS ("Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) (through Himmler)") →	controls
Foreign Office of Nazi Germany →	cooperatedWith
Stiftung Topographie des Terrors ("Reichssicherheitshauptamt") →	focusesOn
Protection Squadron →	hasBranch
Inland-SD ("SD-Inland (Amt III of RSHA)") →	hasDivision
Cabinet of Adolf Hitler ("Reich Security Main Office") →	hasPart
Inland-SD ("Nazi security and police apparatus") →	historicalContext
GeneralplanOstPolicies ("Reich Main Security Office (RSHA)") →	implementedBy
NaziRacialPolicy ("Reich Security Main Office") →	implementedThroughInstitution
Gestapo →	laterControlledBy
Gestapo headquarters, Berlin ("former Reich Security Main Office buildings") →	locatedNear
Intelligenzaktion ("Sicherheitsdienst (SD)") →	perpetratedBy
Endlösung der Judenfrage ("Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)") →	perpetrator
Intelligenzaktion →	plannedBy
Rudolf Lange ("Reich Main Security Office at the Wannsee Conference") →	represented
Operation Reinhard →	supervisedBy
Reich Security Main Office complex →	usedBy