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* ''Series/AlloAllo'': Herr Otto Flick is a Gestapo agent tasked by Hitler to retrieve the painting of "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" by Van Clomp. He starts off as genuinely menacing, but quickly succumbs to VillainDecay as the writers realised his actor (Richard Gibson) could do/say anything with a straight face, leading to Herr Flick becoming a character known for his ludicrously [[PaperThinDisguise Paper-Thin Disguises]]. His assistant, Herr von Smallhausen is an utter fool and a contender for the series' biggest ButtMonkey.

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* ''Series/AlloAllo'': Herr Otto Flick is a Gestapo agent tasked by Hitler to retrieve the painting of "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" by Van Clomp. He starts off as genuinely menacing, but quickly succumbs to VillainDecay as the writers realised his actor (Richard Gibson) [[TheComicallySerious could do/say anything with a straight face, face]], leading to Herr Flick becoming a character known for his ludicrously [[PaperThinDisguise Paper-Thin Disguises]]. His assistant, Herr von Smallhausen is an utter fool and a contender for the series' biggest ButtMonkey.
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The organization was originally founded by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's deputy UsefulNotes/HermannGoring in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').

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The organization was originally founded by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's deputy UsefulNotes/HermannGoring in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' ''[[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Länder]]'' at the time. After Goering Göring reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').
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The organization was originally founded by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's deputy Herman Goering in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').

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The organization was originally founded by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's deputy Herman Goering UsefulNotes/HermannGoring in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').
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The organization was originally founded by Hitler's deputy Herman Goering in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').

While the UsefulNotes/{{Abwehr}} was an ordinary intelligence organization whose main fault was that it was saddled with [[MyCountryRightOrWrong the wrong government]] (and to its credit was actively sabotaging Germany's war effort), the Gestapo was organized primarily to be an [[GovernmentConspiracy Official Department of Evilness]]. While the Abwehr was responsible to the state, the Gestapo was responsible to the Nazi Party. Thus, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler on the whole trusted the Gestapo more. As it turned out he may have been right to do so from his point of view, although having Hitler's trust [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame isn't much of a compliment]].


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The organization was originally founded by Hitler's UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's deputy Herman Goering in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').

While the UsefulNotes/{{Abwehr}} was an ordinary intelligence organization whose main fault was that it was saddled with [[MyCountryRightOrWrong the wrong government]] (and to its credit was actively sabotaging Germany's war effort), the Gestapo was organized primarily to be an [[GovernmentConspiracy Official Department of Evilness]]. While the Abwehr was responsible to the state, the Gestapo was responsible to the Nazi Party. Thus, UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler on the whole trusted the Gestapo more. As it turned out he may have been right to do so from his point of view, although having Hitler's trust [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame isn't much of a compliment]].

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The '''Ge'''heime '''Sta'''ats'''po'''lizei, aka the Secret State Police of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.

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The '''Ge'''heime '''Sta'''ats'''po'''lizei, aka the Secret State Police of UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. \n The Gestapo is one of the main points of reference we have when we think of the words SecretPolice (another would be UsefulNotes/TheStasi, its communist successor in UsefulNotes/EastGermany). Other such agencies existed previously, but the Gestapo made the trope famous.

The organization was originally founded by Hitler's deputy Herman Goering in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').



The Gestapo is one of the main points of reference we have when we think of the words SecretPolice (another would be UsefulNotes/TheStasi, its communist successor in UsefulNotes/EastGermany). Other such agencies existed previously, but the Gestapo made the trope famous. The organization was originally founded by Hitler's deputy Herman Goering in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').

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The Gestapo is one of the main points of reference we have when we think of the words SecretPolice (another would be UsefulNotes/TheStasi, its communist successor in UsefulNotes/EastGermany). Other such agencies existed previously, but the Gestapo made the trope famous. The organization was originally founded by Hitler's deputy Herman Goering in 1933 as an agency of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}, the biggest of the German ''Länder'' at the time. After Goering reached an agreement with UsefulNotes/HeinrichHimmler in 1934, it was brought under the auspices of the SS in order to streamline the police forces of the German states into one centralized national agency that could do the bidding of the new regime without objection from the individual ''Länder''. Hitler appointed Himmler the Chief of German Police in 1936, but with Himmler's huge portfolio covering all SS matters inside and outside Germany, the day-to-day affairs of the Gestapo itself was mostly delegated to Himmler's subordinates in the Reich Security Main Office (''RSHA'' or ''Reichssicherheitshauptampt'').
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* ''Film/Jojo Rabbit'': Captain Deertz (Creator/StephenMerchant) leads a team of Gestapo inspectors searching for dissenters and Jewish fugitives. They also have a comical insistence on saying "Heil Hitler" with every introduction.

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* ''Film/Jojo Rabbit'': ''Film/JojoRabbit'': Captain Deertz (Creator/StephenMerchant) leads a team of Gestapo inspectors searching for dissenters and Jewish fugitives. They also have a comical insistence on saying "Heil Hitler" with every introduction.
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* ''Film/Jojo Rabbit'': Captain Deertz (Creator/StephenMerchant) leads a team of Gestapo inspectors searching for dissenters and Jewish fugitives. They also have a comical insistence on saying "Heil Hitler" with every introduction.

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