the → gestapo was hitler’s secret police. it stripped everyone who got into the gestapo focus off their rights. the gestapo personnel treated their prisoners badly, often with torture and with a very dim future in the → dachau concentration camp.

the german historian → erich kasberger wrote the first book about the gestapo in munich. munich in 1933 was the testbed for the gestapo headquarter in berlin. kasberger ran into a massive problem: there are no original gestapo munich documents; they were all destoyed by an allied bomb attack. the book is based on lots and lots of transcripts of → spruchkammer-trials after world war 2. spruchkammer was an allied institution, a tool for punishing nazis and for denazification. many of the civil servants and policemen of the munich gestapo had to stand trial after the war. almost all of the leaders not only got free pretty soon, but made a second career in the secret service of the democratic republic of germany.

it took me two weeks to set up a list of around 800 employees of the munich gestapo HQ. today i’m happy to publish → the list in the german wikipedia. maybe you want to transfer it to other wiki languages?