Главное управление имперской безопасности Германии (РСХА) (г. Берлин)

Главное управление имперской безопасности Германии (РСХА) (г. Берлин) 

The Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) was created in September 1939 by the merger of the Security Police and the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst or SD) of the Reichsführer-SS. The RSHA was headed by Reinhard Heydrich, and, after Heydrich's assassination in 1942, by Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The RSHA numbered approximately 70,000 employees, and its structure was altered repeatedly. As of October 1943, it included seven departments: I: organizational issues and the training of personnel; II: finance and economics; III: surveillance of internal political life; IV: the functions of the former Secret State Police Administration (Gestapo); V: criminal police (this department included the Criminal Technical Institute and the Criminal Biological Institute; the establishment of a central institute of forensic medicine was planned); VI: external reconnaissance; and VII: information, propaganda, and counter-propaganda. In 1944, after the elimination of the Abwehr, an eighth (military) department was created to lead reconnaissance-diversionary efforts. The departments were divided into groups, and the groups into sections.The RSHA was under the command of the Reichsführer-SS and chief of the German police Himmler. In 1943, Himmler be-came Reichsminister of the Interior and General Plenipotentiary for Reich Security. In the spring of 1941, in the context of Operation Barbarossa, Heydrich formed the Einsatzgruppen, which were attached to Wehrmacht formations, to carry out the annihilation of Jews. Section IV B 4 of the RSHA, under Adolf Eichmann, was responsible for the Jews. From late 1941, it directed the deportation of most of European Jewry to ghettos, slave labor, and extermination camps. At the Nuremberg trial, the Gestapo, the SS, the storm detachments (SA) of the Nazi Party, and the Security Service (SD), by whose forces the RSHA had committed"crimes against humanity" were declared criminal organizations. Kaltenbrunner was executed by sentence of the Nuremburg tribunal.  

Главное управление имперской безопасности Германии (РСХА) (г. Берлин)