Coordinates | 40°42′15.0″N73°55′4.0″N |
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Agency name | RSHA |
Nativename | Reichssicherheitshauptamt |
Logo | Flag Schutzstaffel.svg |
Logo width | 100px |
Logo caption | The RSHA was under the administration of the SS. |
Picture | Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R98683, Reinhard Heydrich.jpg |
Picture width | 250px |
Picture caption | Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the RSHA, as an SS-Gruppenführer in August 1940. |
Formed | September 27, 1939 |
Preceding1 | Sicherheitspolizei |
Preceding2 | Sicherheitsdienst |
Dissolved | May 8, 1945 |
Jurisdiction | GermanyOccupied Europe |
Headquarters | Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, Berlin |
Employees | 50,648 c. February 1944 |
Minister1 name | Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler |
Minister1 pfo | (1939-1945) |
Chief1 name | SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich 1939-1942 |
Chief1 position | Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD |
Chief2 name | Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler 1942-1943 |
Chief2 position | Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (Acting) |
Chief3 name | SS-Obergruppenführer Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner 1943-1945 |
Chief3 position | Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD |
Agency type | Secret Police |
Parent agency | Ministry of the Interior (nominally) 23px Allgemeine SS |
Child1 agency | Gestapo |
Child2 agency | Sicherheitsdienst |
Child3 agency | Sicherheitspolizei |
Child4 agency | Kriminalpolizei |
Footnotes | }} |
The first chief of the RSHA was SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Police Reinhard Heydrich until he was assassinated in 1942 (following a British-backed Czech operation). Following Heydrich's assassination, Himmler personally took over as acting chief of the RSHA, but in January 1943 delegated the office to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Police Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who served as the head of the RSHA for the remainder of World War II. The RSHA acronym for its director was 'CSSD': Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (). However, included within the list of "enemies" were Jews, Romani people, the "racially undesirable" as well as Communists, Freemasons, pacifists and Christian activists.
The RSHA also oversaw the Einsatzgruppen death squads that followed the invasion forces of the Wehrmacht Heer (German Army) into Eastern Europe. In its role as the nation's and NSDAP's security service, the RSHA coordinated activities among a number of different agencies that had wide-ranging responsibilities within Third Reich.
The RSHA was oftentimes abbreviated when part of correspondence as "RSi-H" so there would be no confusion with the SS department of RuSHA or SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (SS Race and Settlement Office).
The organization at its simplest was divided into seven offices ():
Amt IV, the Gestapo, and Amt V, the Kripo, together constituted the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) or SiPo. It was the SiPo that did most of the work in rounding up Jews, Romani People and other people deemed to be enemies of the Reich and deporting them to the concentration and extermination camps in German Occupied Poland and Ukraine.
The RSHA also supplied security forces on an "as needed" basis to local SS and Police Leaders. After the escape of prisoners from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, for example, it was RSHA personnel who facilitated the "Stalag Luft III murders".
During the earlier part of the fighting in the Soviet Union, the RSHA also had operational control of certain Waffen-SS units which Himmler had withheld from the Army High Command (OKH); these units, the 1st and 2nd SS Infantry Brigades and the SS Cavalry Brigade, were formed from former Standarten of the Totenkopfverbände or concentration camp service. Their role was not to serve in combat, except in emergencies, but to carry out "police and security operations" in occupied territories like the Einsatzgruppen.
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