Term

Reichssicherheitshauptamt

Headquarters of the ’security service‘ in Berlin, from where the Nazis coordinated their police and espionage operations, in which the deportation and destruction of millions of Jews played a special role.

The headquarters set up by Heinrich Himmler included the SD and the Gestapo. Reinhard Heydrich ran the operation. After Heydrich was killed, Ernst Kaltenbrunner took over.

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