In 1933, Germany established a secret police force that operated above the law
Hermann Göring transformed a small Prussian police department into the most feared surveillance network in history, creating a force that operated entirely outside the reach of the judicial system.
On April 26, 1933, the Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, was officially established in Nazi Germany. What began as a regional political police unit quickly evolved into a national instrument of terror that could arrest and imprison citizens without trial. This lack of legal oversight allowed them to bypass the courts entirely, making the state's will the only law.
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