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The Gestapo (German pronunciation: [ɡeˈstaːpo, ɡəˈʃtaːpo]), abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, or the Secret State Police was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the executive and the judicial branches into one power. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of SS national leader Heinrich Himmler, who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei) by Hitler. In 1936, Himmler made it a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) ("Security Police"). Then from 27 September 1939 forward, it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office") and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service").
As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring —future commander of the Luftwaffe and the number-two-man in the Nazi Party—was named Interior Minister of Prussia. This gave Göring command of the largest police force in Germany. Soon afterward, Göring detached the political and intelligence sections from the police and filled their ranks with Nazis. On 26 April 1933, Göring merged the two units as the Geheime Staatspolizei, which was abbreviated for a franking stamp and became known as the Gestapo. He originally wanted to name it the Secret Police Office (German: Geheimes Polizeiamt), but discovered the German initials "GPA" looked and sounded too much like those of the Russian GPU.
The Sword is an American heavy metal band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2003, the band is composed of vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie, and drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III. Originally signed to Kemado Records, the group released its debut album Age of Winters in 2006, the material for which had been largely written by Cronise. Follow-up album Gods of the Earth was released two years later and gave the group its first entry on the US Billboard 200 chart.
In 2010 the band released Warp Riders, a concept album centered on an original science fiction narrative, which marked the first time the band had enlisted an external producer in Matt Bayles. Wingo left the group later in the year and was replaced briefly by Kevin Fender, before Vela joined in 2011. After signing with Razor & Tie in 2012 the group released its fourth album Apocryphon, which was promoted worldwide on the Apocryphon Tour. The band's fifth album, High Country, was released in 2015.
The Eiffel Tower (/ˈaɪfəl ˈtaʊər/ EYE-fəl TOWR; French: tour Eiffel [tuʁ‿ɛfɛl] listen) is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Constructed in 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair, it was initially criticized by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world: 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011. The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010.
The tower is 324 metres (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-storey building. Its base is square, 125 metres (410 ft) on a side. During its construction, the Eiffel Tower surpassed the Washington Monument to become the tallest man-made structure in the world, a title it held for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York City was built in 1930. Due to the addition of the aerial at the top of the tower in 1957, it is now taller than the Chrysler Building by 5.2 metres (17 ft). Not including broadcast aerials, it is the second-tallest structure in France, after the Millau Viaduct.
War Machine (James Rupert "Rhodey" Rhodes) is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books set in the Marvel Comics universe. The character of James Rhodes first appeared in Iron Man #118 (January 1979) by David Michelinie, John Byrne, and Bob Layton. The War Machine armor, which became his signature armored battlesuit, was designed by Len Kaminski and Kevin Hopgood.
In 2012, War Machine was ranked 31st in IGN's list of "The Top 50 Avengers". The character has been featured in the Iron Man animated series, the Iron Man: Armored Adventures series, and the animated film The Invincible Iron Man. He has been portrayed by Terrence Howard in the 2008 Iron Man film and by Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron and the upcoming Captain America: Civil War.
Initially a supporting character in volume one of Iron Man, Rhodes later assumed the mantle of Iron Man after Tony Stark's relapse into alcoholism in issue #170 (May 1983). The character would continue in a supporting role and later resume the role of Iron Man following Stark's purported death in issue #284 (Sept. 1992). After Stark's return to the role of Iron Man, Rhodes continued as the superhero War Machine and made his solo series debut in an eponymous title after being featured as a supporting character in the superhero-team series Avengers West Coast.
Actors: Ewa Telega (actress), Marta Klubowicz (actress), Lech Soluba (actor), Mateusz Kosciukiewicz (actor), Tadeusz Lampka (producer), Kordian Piwowarski (editor), Kordian Piwowarski (writer), Kordian Piwowarski (director), Bartosz Chajdecki (composer), Katarzyna Zawadzka (actress), Tomasz Leszczynski (actor), Stanislaw Szymanski (producer), Krzysztof Hanke (actor), Józef Grzymala (actor), Iga Banasiak (actress),
Genres: Biography,Actors: Alan Sacks (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Hubert von Spreti (producer), Susan Werbe (producer), Andrew Hurwitz (miscellaneous crew), David McKillop (producer), Barbara Rosenblat (actress), Claus Wehlisch (editor), Katja Wildermuth (producer), Nadav Schirman (producer), John Piscitello (composer), Fatime Dévényi (miscellaneous crew), Nándor Lovas (actor), Deirdre Slevin (editor), Rafael Marmor (producer),
Plot: While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
Keywords: cave, cave-dweller, interview, jew, world-war-twoActors: Alan Sacks (miscellaneous crew), Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Hubert von Spreti (producer), Susan Werbe (producer), Andrew Hurwitz (miscellaneous crew), David McKillop (producer), Barbara Rosenblat (actress), Claus Wehlisch (editor), Katja Wildermuth (producer), Nadav Schirman (producer), John Piscitello (composer), Fatime Dévényi (miscellaneous crew), Nándor Lovas (actor), Deirdre Slevin (editor), Rafael Marmor (producer),
Plot: While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent nearly a year and a half in the pitch-black caves to escape the Nazis. This is the story of the longest uninterrupted underground survival in recorded human history.
Keywords: cave, cave-dweller, interview, jew, world-war-twoActors: Paul Coster (actor), Niklaas van Poortvliet (producer), Niklaas van Poortvliet (director), Nic Hinton (writer), Mai Cunningham (actor),
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Jürgen Tarrach (actor), Roberto Della Casa (actor), Sabrina Ferilli (actress), Edwige Fenech (producer), Jean-Luc Azoulay (producer), Lorenza Indovina (actress), Franco Marotta (writer), Luis Bacalov (composer), Laura Toscano (writer), Rolando Ravello (actor), Giorgio Gobbi (actor), Luca Montanari (editor), Stefano Fregni (actor), Fabrizio Donati (actor), Mariolina Bono (costume designer),
Plot: Rome 1943. ANGELA is an attractive, unwed mother who lives in a working class neighborhood of Rome. We are in the middle of the Second World War. Alone and considered a "disgrace," Angela is an easy target for gossip and backbiting. Hardened by life, she has learned to fend for herself and for her young "illegitimate" boy. Forced by necessity to ignore certain scruples and seek profit from the tragic events around her, she works on the black market for quick cash. But History, the one with a capital "H" throws her for a loop. It is October 16, 1943, the fateful day of the German purge upon Rome's Jewish Ghetto. Angela is informed of the round-up by Signor Brescia, an old jeweler who asks her to hide his son Davide in her home in exchange for a kilo of gold. Though full of misgivings, Angela accepts the trade-off and hosts the young Jew in the secret storeroom where she keeps her black market supplies. The beginning of their relationship is turbulent to say the least. Davide despises that greedy and insensitive woman, and she, in turn, considers him only "trouble," a liability that could get her into serious hot water. But in time, despite the odds, the two opposites, he the idealistic and she the practical, inexorably come to attract each other. Angela and Davide fall in love... an absolute love that denies all the glaring obstacles of those bitter days without future; a love nurtured on illusion replete with plans and projects too grand and distant to be plausible. But for Davide, that love, however fulfilling, is not enough: safely hidden in that house, he feels like a coward. At all costs, he wants to join the Resistance Movement and fight for Freedom, all the more so after he witnesses the brutal arrest of one of Angela's neighbors, the railway worker Giacomo Sinisi. Events take their course: it is March 23, 1944 and along Via Rasella, the "Bozen" Battalion is attacked by partisans. A bomb kills twenty-six soldiers and leaves roughly an equal number seriously wounded. The final death toll reaches thirty. The Nazis command an immediate reprisal. After hasty and furious negotiations, a "decimation" is ordered: for every German soldier, ten Italians will be killed, culled from the criminals, Jews and political prisoners detained at the Regina Coeli and Via Tasso prisons. News of the reprisal spreads like an evil omen and Angela, just back from the countryside outside Rome where she gets her Black Market supplies (and keeps her son out of harm's way), discovers that on precisely that same day, Davide had slipped out of the house to join the Resistance Movement. Ignoring the curfew, she marches through a city full of prowling German military vehicles, and tracks down a partisan contact who can bolster her hope that Davide is safe. But unfortunately, just the opposite is true: Davide was caught in a round-up and dragged off to Regina Coeli. Now Angela is impelled by desperation to find a solution, no matter how extreme, to save her beloved's life. She appeals to Chief Warden Marino Santipani, a longtime suitor of hers, whom she had always firmly refused. She tries to swing a deal with the man: a kilo of gold in exchange for Davide' life. But as Angela is quick to realize, it's not gold that Santipani wants. She accepts his implicit demand. The Chief Warden savagely possesses her with the arrogance of one who has finally conquered a young, attractive and spirited woman who had always tauntingly denied herself. But after Angela's mortifying sacrifice, the man reneges on his end of the deal and instead offers a painful dilemma. While recognizing his obligation, Santipani, cruel and cunning, imposes his own thankless task on her: he can cancel Davide's name from the list of condemned men to be consigned to the Germans, but she, instead of him, must name the replacement. Is Angela equal to the moral burden of deciding the life and death of another person... perhaps even a boy... or a man with wife and children? Angela caves in, she can't do it and Davide is consequently sent off to die with the other 335 victims of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre. Unspeakable grief nearly kills her as well, a grief that turns to rage and hatred. Aware that she's expecting Davide's baby, Angela is now convinced that justice can only mean one thing: murderous revenge. Gun in hand, she waits for Santipani in the shadows by the apartment building door... But in the fraction of a second between decision and action, she is overwhelmed by the realization that Davide had changed her. And suddenly, that pathetic man she is about to kill is no longer worth the weight of further remorse. But as her heart pounds and mind races, a shot is fired, its deafening report echoing through the entrance hall... a shot fired from another gun, brandished by another woman bent on revenge: Signora Sinisi, whose husband Giacomo was doomed to Davide's same fate. Overwhelmed by History, Angela is left with the painful awareness of her life-affirming decision... that and with a child to be born, vivid memento of a great and unforgettable love.
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: Bela B. Felsenheimer (actor), Jochen Nickel (actor), Anna Thalbach (actress), Jan Decleir (actor), Andrey Fedortsov (actor), Sergey Bekhterev (actor), Andreas Wodraschke (editor), Konstantin Vorobyov (actor), Oli Weiss (editor), Niko von Glasow (writer), Niko von Glasow (producer), Niko von Glasow (director), Wolfgang Michael (actor), Susanne Bredehöft (actress), Antje Paul Leinberger (producer),
Plot: Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time. But working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued by the Gestapo. With the escaped concentration camp prisoner Hans Steinbrück they plan acts of sabotage, until the Gestapo take them on with their full might. When they're arrested, Karl is torn between his will to survive, his feelings of responsibility, his love for his brother and his loyalty to the Edelweiss Pirates.
Keywords: anarchist, anti-fascist, german-resistance, independent-film, melodrama, nazi, partisan, resistance, underground-resistanceActors: Jirí Sequens (director), Rudolf Jelínek (actor), Ludek Munzar (actor), Frantisek Nemec (actor), Josef Vinklár (actor), Robert Vrchota (actor), Jirí Sequens (writer), Daniela Kolárová (actress), Václav Sasek (writer), Karel Mares (composer), Vilém Besser (actor), Evgeniy Zharikov (actor), Ladislav Frej (actor), Libuse Geprtová (actress), Jaroslav Drbohlav (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: James Dime (actor), Ludwig Donath (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), James Dime (actor), William Challee (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Ray Collins (actor), Robert Blake (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), William Edmunds (actor),
Plot: In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
Keywords: 1930s, apple, based-on-novel, beer, bicycle, bloodstains, church, church-bell, clock, clothes-lineActors: James Dime (actor), Ludwig Donath (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), James Dime (actor), William Challee (actor), Charles Arnt (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Felix Bressart (actor), Hugh Beaumont (actor), Ray Collins (actor), Robert Blake (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), William Edmunds (actor),
Plot: In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
Keywords: 1930s, apple, based-on-novel, beer, bicycle, bloodstains, church, church-bell, clock, clothes-lineActors: LeRoy Mason (actor), Martin Kosleck (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), Rudolph Anders (actor), John Banner (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Trevor Bardette (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Felix Basch (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), Egon Brecher (actor), Arno Frey (actor), John Mylong (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,The Geheime Staatspolizei (German for Secret State Police, abbreviated "Gestapo") was the secret police of Nazi Germany, and its main tool of oppression and destruction, which persecuted Germans, opponents of the regime, and Jews. It later played a central role in helping carry out the Nazi's "Final Solution." The Gestapo was formally organized after the Nazis seized power in 1933. Hermann Göring, the Prussian minister of the interior, detached the espionage and political units of the Prussian police and proceeded to staff them with thousands of Nazis. On April 26, 1933, Göring became the commander of this new force that was given power to shadow, arrest, interrogate, and intern any "enemies" of the state. At the same time that Goring was organzing the Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler was direct...
The Sword Is Forged "The Nazis converted their country from a flawed democracy to a fascist dictatorship in which the rights of the individual were trampled in the interests of the state. Institutions and organizations were warped to serve this purpose, none more than the police. At first, it was the Storm Troopers of the SA, who beat, intimidated, and killed those who opposed the regime. But something more was needed than simple thuggery and the police were co-opted. The Gestapo, the Secret State Police, was the organization set up to perform this function. By reputation its network of black-clad officers spread everywhere; yet it was a small organization--at its height in 1941 there were only 8,000 officers. Program 1 shows the power struggle between the worst of Hitlers henchmen, Him...
Gestapo Torture Chamber Under Eiffel Tower! Shocking. World War II, Under Nazi rule, Parisians and French Resistance were subject to brutal interrogations by the Gestapo. These chambers reveal the horrors that took place beneath the Eiffel Tower. Subscribe to WarArchives: http://www.youtube.com/wararchives All of the reels on WarArchives are taken from the British Pathe archive. 90,000 reels can be watched for free on www.britishpathe.com You can also find British Pathe on Twitter @britishpathe
COLOGNE, GESTAPO and NAZI building (GERMANY): This is the infamous EL-De Haus that was used by the Gestapo for interrogation, torturing and killing of the prisoners, located in Cologne. Germany. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. Cologne (Köln) is the largest city in the German federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-largest city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich). It is located within the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, one of the major European metropolitan regions and the largest in Germany with more than ten million inhabitants
From the movie "Max Manus"
Utilizzati per eliminare ogni forma di dissenso del popolo verso il regime dittatoriale nazista, spesso questi uomini usavano metodi assai violenti e molto spesso eliminavano definitivamente l'oppositore, erano reparti scelti di polizia. Non erano molto differenti dalle SS anch'essi guidati da Himmler.
Hermann Göring, Titkos Állami Rendőrsége azzal a feladattal lett megbízva, hogy letartóztassa és vallomásokat, információt kényszerítsen ki a Birodalom
Die ARD zeigt eine dreiteilige Dokumentation über die Gestapo. Der erste Teil schildert den Aufbau der so genannten Geheimen Staatspolizei und die Bekämpfung der innenpolitischen Gegner. Im zweiten Teil geht es um Deportationen, Massaker und Vernichtung von Juden und Polen, während der letzte Teil sich dann wieder mit der brutalen Unterdrückung in den letzten beiden Jahren der Hitlerdiktatur beschäftigt. "Das Wort Gestapo ist für mich das Symbol der staatlichen Willkür. Das waren alles potentiell gefühllose Mörder. Die Angst vor dieser Gestapo war so enorm. Die waren ja keine Menschen. Die haben zugeschlagen, noch und noch." Zu Beginn jeder Teil-Dokumentation lassen die Autoren Wolfgang Schön und Holger Hillesheim die Opfer der Gestapo zu Wort kommen. Danach beginnt ein chronologische...
I was living in the belly of a shark
Seen what he was eating all the time
She pulled me out with her pirate sense of duty oh
she said you ve been living off the dark end blend
now its time to come out my friend, you thought
oh I ll never see the light but you were wrong
you just became the light
chorus: cause I am a ghost boy I don t
scare and I don t get no bellyaches
and I ll be eating sparrows
sitting on top of a tree
and as the days go by won t
you show me where to get them bellyaches
or I ll be eating marrow
straight from the bone
those days I had a coronary taste
falling from the tip of my tongue
she was looking for a little fun
and me I was the only one oh she said:
Big sewers filled with little kids,
west side story be the story of bids that go
high till they brake the sky.
They make bible stones seem old
Now all that can save me
Is my own rabies
So I bite my own self
and I quiet down like stealth again
All that can save me
is my own rabies
so I bite my own self
and I quiet down like stealth bombers
chorus: cause I am a ghost boy I don t
scare and I don t get no belly aches
and I ll be eating sparrows
sitting on top of a tree
and as the days go by won t
you show me where to get them bellyaches
or I ll be here like pharaohs