Former US President Donald Trump described the administration of his Democratic successor, Joe Biden, taking advantage of the legal system, comparing it to the secret police of Nazi Germany (Gestapo).
The Republican candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in November made statements on Saturday during a meeting with officials from his party at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in the state of Florida (southeast) , according to an audio recording sent to the American media by one of the donors who participated in the ceremony.
Trump said on Saturday that the Democratic administration is a “Gestapo administration”, also criticizing the judges assigned to investigate the criminal cases brought against him, according to what was reported by American media.
What is the Gestapo police?
The Gestapo was the famous secret police force of the Third Reich that suppressed political opposition in general, targeting especially communists and religious minorities such as Jews.
The Gestapo began as a police department whose investigators followed strict protocols and even issued an instruction manual for conducting searches, arrests and interrogations.
The Gestapo used informers to spy on dissidents, search homes, and brutal interrogation techniques, including torture, to conduct investigations to protect the regime from its racist and political enemies. they were seeing, according to the website.Holocaust encyclopedia“.
According to reports US Intelligence Agency (CIA) According to historian Frank McDonough, at any point in its history the Gestapo had more than 16,000 active members, full-time officers to supervise 66 million people.
But the Encyclopedia Britannica (BritannicaShe said that it started in 1933, and its number reached 32 thousand people at the end of 1944.
The encyclopedia reveals that these police were working inside Germany and the occupied territories and were cooperating with the security authorities to suppress opponents throughout the region. Arrest Europe to send them to extermination camps.
The Gestapo operated without civil restrictions, had the power of “preventive arrest”, and its actions were not subject to judicial appeal.
Because of the Gestapo, thousands of leftists, intellectuals, Jews, trade unions, political clergy, and homosexuals disappeared into concentration camps after being arrested by the Gestapo.
The political section of this secret police could order the killing, torture or release of prisoners.
During World War II, the Gestapo suppressed partisan activity in the occupied territories and retaliated against civilians.
In the post-World War II period, Gestapo police prosecution ran from 1945 to the mid-1960s.
McDonough points out that most high-ranking Gestapo officers with law degrees have been able to return to legal positions without worrying about their past actions.
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2024-05-05 22:33:11
