Question

Which of the following was a special surveillance and security force created by Hitler?

• A. Regular police force in green uniform and storm troppers
• B. Gestapo (secret state police), the SS (the protection squads)
• C. Criminal police, (SD) the security service
• D. Both (b) and (c)

Answer 1

The correct option is D Both (b) and (c)

Before the rise of Hitler, regular police in green uniform and SA or Storm Troopers existed already. After coming into power Hitler created Secret state police known as the Gestapo, the protection squads known as the SS, criminal police, and the security service known as SD. It was the extra-constitutional powers of these newly organised forces that gave the Nazi state its reputation as the most dreaded criminal state.