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Understanding the Gestapo: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge about the Gestapo, its formation, key figures, and its role in Nazi Germany through this engaging quiz.

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đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • Margaret Kelly Leibovici, a French-Irish dancer, was interrogated by the Gestapo in occupied France.
  • Saugumas, a Nazi-controlled Lithuanian secret police of the 1940s, was modelled after the infamous Gestapo.
  • Sir James Hutchison, known as the "Pimpernel of the Maquis" for his liaison work with the French Resistance, was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day.
  • the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement.
  • two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944.
  • Karl Schnibbe was one of a group of three Hamburg teenagers arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany during World War II for distributing anti-Hitler pamphlets.
  • Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, was observed by the Gestapo during World War II.
  • XU leader Lauritz Sand was turned in to the Gestapo by a female Norwegian Abwehr agent.
  • Abraham Blum, a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was murdered by the Gestapo, but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka, a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland.
  • AndrĂ© Devigny, a member of the French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook.
  • Group 13 was a notorious group of Jewish Nazi collaborators within the Warsaw Ghetto, known as the Jewish Gestapo.
  • 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen—accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club.
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