Security agency Reichsführer SS
the security agency Reichsführer SS (SD) was a part of the National Socialist power apparatus in the time of the national socialism in the German Reich.
With the SD it concerned originally (1931 of Himmler created and subordinated Heydrich) first an party-internal intelligence service of the NSDAP, howeverin the course of the increasing entwinement of a party and state increasingly domestic tasks of the monitoring of the political opponents and party members were transferred. The SD was assigned the SS. 1939 the Central Reich Security Office RSHA were created by pool of state police ( SIPO) and security agency.
The SD had its seatin the prince Albrecht palace in the William route 102 in Berlin.
Until 1942 the SD von Reinhard Heydrich was then led, after its murder until 1945 by Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
The SD was involved in list and equipment of the SS-Einsatzgruppen.
The SD became in the framework that Nürnberger of processes as organization of the entire SS accused and with it condemns.
Numerous members of the SD became after 1945 under the line former major general of the Wehrmachts - department of foreigner of armies pure hard Gehlen transferred to western secret service organizations - first into the CIA - “organization Gehlen “,which 1956 in the again created Federal Information Service of the FRG came up.
literature
- Shlomo Aronson: Pure hard Heydrich and the early history of Gestapo and SD. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1971
- Günther Deschner: Pure hard Heydrich. Governor of total power. Ullstein, Frankfurt/M., Berlin 1987, ISBN 3548275591
- MichaelWildt (Hrsg. and introduction):The Jew politics of the SD 1935 to 1938. A documentation. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3486645714
- Heinz Boberach (Hg.): Messages from the realm: 1938-1945; the secret reports on the situation of the security agency of the SS, Herrsching 1984 (17 volumes)
- Michael Wildt (Hrsg.): Intelligence service, politicalElite and murder unit - the security agency of the realm leader SS., Hamburg edition 2003, ISBN 3-930908-84-0
