Gestapo - this word for 12 years made Germany and all of Europe tremble. Agents of this organization tracked down, captured and doomed millions of people to suffering and death. It was the Gestapo that was the main core of the Nazi state, never before in any country in the world did not have such power, did not achieve such "perfection" in the crimes committed by it. The reader's attention is presented with a brief history of this criminal organization, biographical data of its organizers and leaders, eyewitness accounts. The book contains 120 photographs, appendices and a glossary.