Gestapo - Hitler's Secret Police

My mother, aged 24 in 1943, was arrested by the French Vichy Police in Toulon, France and promptly handed over to the Gestapo which had German officers and French auxiliaries. She spent six months in solitary confinement in the Gestapo prisons in Toulon and Marseilles prior to 2 years in Dachau concentration camp and one of its subcamps in western Austria. She told me that the solitary imprisonment and prisoner treatment was far worse in the two Gestapo prisons in France than in the German concentration camps.

Thank you for actually showing everything and not blurring stuff out.

Imagine what a ww2 vet would say about the state of affairs today compared to back then

My Grandparents had a visit from the Gestapo at home in St Quentin in 1944. They were there to arrest their son (my uncle) not because he'd done anything wrong but because the local Kommandant had had his car vandalised and, as they had no idea who'd done it, they decided it was my uncle's turn to be imprisoned. My uncle was out having his haircut and they told the Gestapo this. Fine they said, and told them he'd have to hand himself in or they'd arrest my Grandfather - just as good in their view. A row ensued when my uncle got back. He didn't fancy a spell in a Gestapo cell. Eventually, my Grandfather opted to hand himself in instead. He returned to his frantic family a week later and told them he'd had a great time playing cards with other locals who'd been arrested. By that time, the Gestapo were well aware they were losing the war and harming or killing locals was pointless. An unexpected tale about the war but absolutely accurate according to my mum - the youngest of the family who witnessed it all.

How they threw people away like garbage is what gets to me. I'll never understand why humans could do this to others. Thank you for this excellent documentary about history. Lest we never forget. ❤

My goodness, finally a channel that doesn't sanitize everything, but show the real Carnage that needs to be shown, but is often blurred out by so many other channels. Subscribed.

My grandfather in law, a German citizen and ww1 veteran, was arrested by the gestapo for speaking ill of AH in a bar near dusseldorf. He knew everyone in the village pub. There were no gestapo there. Theyd only have 10 - 15 officers for most cities anyway. It was citizens reporting each other for small benefits that kept the gestapo prisons full. He was released a week later, bruised and shaken. He spent the last few years of the war keeping himself to himself and was very grateful come liberation and never trusted his other local citizens again.

The last thing the Gestapo could be called is 'secret'.

We have them here in Canada now...... We call them the R C M P. This time, they're after regular, traditional, hard working citizens. Our "Leader" has now implemented assisted life enddding. Super stuff.

If the British men of 1939 could see Britain today, They wouldn't have bothered enlisting.

May I express my thanks for a well produced and presented documentary. England, October, 2023.

i lost a lot of my hearing in the service to the military, it is really difficult to hear the words sometimes, if this was closed captioned it would be much more entertaining. This is real important history. It seems to be repeating itself.

Now I know who trains the reception staff at my doctor's.

These are the guys the German gov't send for you in 2023 when you call a guy fat on the internet.

Very good documentary on the Gestapo. The name alone sent fear through me when I was child learning about WWII.

People won’t acknowledge it but we are rapidly heading that way in Europe and Britain.

Hard to believe this is repeating itself just the players are different.

This shit looks familiar....

My German grandparents living in Hamburg at the time and openly being against Hitler, were visited by the Gestapo quite often, lost everything they had and my grandfather was forced to join the army and sent off to Stalingrad on a bicycle. He barely survived, had parts of his feet removed because of frostbite and never spoke about Nazi Germany again in his life. He only told me once that as Germans we had to undergo the same contempt all Germans had to go through for the rest of his and our lives.

The narrator couldn’t be more erudite and well spoken if he tried. It’s like having the privilege to sit in on Dr. Hannibal Lecter giving a PHD lecture on Nazis. This documentary is stupendous.