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  1. Abbreviated form of Geheime Staatspolizei,
  2. Nazi Germany's secret police, formed 1933,
  3. and under the direction of Heinrich Himmler
  4. from 1936. The Gestapo used torture and
  5. terrorism to stamp out anti-Nazi resistance.
  6. It was declared a criminal organization at
  7. the Nuremberg Trials 1946.
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