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People (1)

  • Ernst Schulte-Strathaus Ernst Schulte-Strathaus was a German astrologer reportedly involved with Karl Krafft in constructing star charts that influenced Rudolf Hess's May 1941 flight to Scotland, after which he was arrested in the mass crackdown on astrologers and occultists ordered by Hitler following the incident.

Organizations (3)

  • Associated Press New York news cooperative of United States newspapers and broadcasters, founded in 1846, whose Berlin photo subsidiary worked under Nazi press law and whose phone records, Gaza bureau and White House access drew government action.
  • Gestapo Nazi Germany's political police, centralized under Heinrich Himmler by 1936 and made Office IV of the Reich Security Main Office in 1939, which sent prisoners to concentration camps without trial.
  • SS The Nazi Party's guard formation, founded by Hitler in 1925 and led by Heinrich Himmler from 1929, which administered the concentration camps and was declared a criminal organization at Nuremberg.