Geheime Staatspolizei
As the chief executive agency charged with fighting internal ‘enemies of the state’, the Gestapo functioned as the Third Reich’s main surveillance and terror instrument, first within Germany and later in the territories occupied by Germany. After 1933 the Gestapo became part of a complex apparatus of state and party police agencies.
Children during the Holocaust / P. Heberer. – Plymouth, 2011. – p. 464