26 Apr 1933 Jahr - Gestapo founded

Beschreibung:

-secret police - police state

-worked with informers (civilians) - "culture of denunciation"

-idea of "omnipresent" (monolithic + all-seeing) surveillance common to 20th century single-party states

-very little opposition under regime due to atmosphere of fear created

-later came under SS control (Himmler), then all police forces combined under RHSA (Reich Central Security Office) in 1939