Sicherheitsdienst (German: [ˈzɪçɐhaɪtsˌdiːnst] ⓘ, "Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.

The SD was an ideologically radical organization that became a key perpetrator of the Holocaust. The SD was a subgroup of the SS (Schutzstaffel, Protection Squadron), the Nazi Party’s elite paramilitary led by Heinrich Himmler. As the intelligence service of the SS, the SD was responsible for gathering intelligence about the Nazi Party’s ...

… and in 1935 joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; “Security Service”), a special branch of the SS. After German forces overran western Europe in World War II, Barbie served in the Netherlands and then, in 1942, was made chief of Gestapo Department IV in Lyon. (The SD was closely related to the…

2021年7月19日 · During the 1930s, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler took control of and centralized Germany’s police organizations. Combining the SS and police meant combining an ideological Nazi Party organization with the civil service. By 1939, almost all police leadership positions were held by SS officers.

2022年10月13日 · The RSHA encompassed the Secret State Police, the “Gestapo”, the Criminal Police (Kripo), and the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei-SD). The SD was often referred simply to as “Sipo”, which was an abbreviation acronym for this infamous security organization.

In August 1931, the Nazi Party decided to have its own intelligence and security body. Heinrich Himmler therefore created the SD (Sicherheitsdienst). Reinhard Heydrich was appointed head of the organization and it was kept distinct from the uniformed SS (Schutzstaffel).

The Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei, SiPo) was a new German police organization created by SS leader and Chief of the German Police Heinrich Himmler in 1936. The Security Police united the criminal police (Kripo) and the political police (Gestapo).

2024年7月15日 · The SD stood for Sicherheitsdienst or Security Force. The focus for the was to monitor and challenges threats to the party directly, rather than the government. It was created in 1931 by Himmler as a method of monitoring opponents to the party.

2011年10月3日 · By 1935–1936, the character of Sicherheitsdienst (SD) membership may have begun to change, but such changes did not involve a “new generation” or new types. Men born after the war, children of the depression who received their formal education during Nazi dominance, did not appear until 1939 and never became a pivotal force.

Control of the German people in Nazi Germany was in the hands of three Nazi Party institutions: the SS-SD-Gestapo. Heinrich Himmler was in overall control and his deputy was Reinhard Heydrich (Himmler was also made Chief of German Police).