Gestapo Quotes
Personal memory and historical fact about Nazi Germany's secret police.
These quotes draw on real historical memory rather than commentary alone, including one speaker's account of their father working as a resistance fighter in Denmark against the occupying SS and Gestapo forces. Another quote notes the plain historical fact that the Gestapo was established in April 1933 as a secret police agency targeting political opposition.
I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?
My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces - the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.
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In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political opposition and so forth. Brand-new as of April 1933.
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.
Against Quotes
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
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A third account describes an occupying Gestapo officer's personal fondness for chess with the speaker's father, a small human detail inside a much darker period. For more firsthand family memories from difficult times, see the Dad quotes.
