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The '''RSHA''' (German: | The '''RSHA''' (German: Reichssicherheitshauptamt) was the '''Reich Main Security Organization''', a division of the [[SS]], headed by [[Heinrich Himmler]]. It was first commanded by [[Reinhard Heydrich]], and then [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]]. | ||
While there were organization changes over time, the basic structure had | Himmler formally linked the Security Police and SD into the RSHA on September 27, 1939, under Heydrich's command. "So potentially powerful was the new agency that Heydrich kept its formal existence a secret until his death in 1942. Correspondence going outside the RSHA bore the pre-1939 letterhead: “the Chief of the Security Police and the SD.” ".<ref name=USHMM-RH>{{citation | ||
| url = http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007406 | |||
| title = Reinhard Heydrich | |||
| publisher = U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum}}</ref> | |||
While there were organization changes over time, the basic structure had seven Amter, or Offices: | |||
*Amt I: Personnel | *Amt I: Personnel | ||
*Amt II: Administration and Finance | *Amt II: Administration and Finance | ||
*Amt III: Internal intelligence (Inland-[[SD]]) | *Amt III: Internal intelligence (Inland-[[SD]]); [[Otto Ohlendorf]], later directly under Kaltenbrunner | ||
*Amt IV: [[Gestapo]] | *Amt IV: [[Gestapo]], [[Heinrich Mueller]] | ||
*Amt V: KriPo (Kriminal Polizei), German Criminal Police | *Amt V: KriPo (Kriminal Polizei), German Criminal Police; [[Artur Nebe]] | ||
*Amt VI: External intelligence (Ausland-[[SD]]) | *Amt VI: External intelligence (Ausland-[[SD]]); [[Walter Schellenberg]] | ||
*Amt VII: Indexes and records, archives | *Amt VII: Indexes and records, archives | ||
The [[Einsatzgruppe]]n reported directly to Heydrich. | |||
In early 1942, the juridictional battles between the military [[Abwehr]] and the RSHA escalated.<ref>{{citation | |||
| title=Canaris: the life and death of Hitler's spymaster | |||
| author = Michael Mueller, Geoffrey Brooks | |||
| publisher = Naval Institute Press | |||
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=9WGAexVXyHwC&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=RSHA+Abwehr&source=bl&ots=gK-boFiHpD&sig=NPt7nlXGiptKpQbVh4zeTEij5kg&hl=en&ei=qYHlTNiLL4O88gadtvHqDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=RSHA%20Abwehr&f=false | |||
| year = 2007 }}, pp. 209-210</ref> | |||
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 The RSHA (German: Reichssicherheitshauptamt) was the Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, headed by Heinrich Himmler. It was first commanded by Reinhard Heydrich, and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Himmler formally linked the Security Police and SD into the RSHA on September 27, 1939, under Heydrich's command. "So potentially powerful was the new agency that Heydrich kept its formal existence a secret until his death in 1942. Correspondence going outside the RSHA bore the pre-1939 letterhead: “the Chief of the Security Police and the SD.” ".[1] While there were organization changes over time, the basic structure had seven Amter, or Offices:
The Einsatzgruppen reported directly to Heydrich. In early 1942, the juridictional battles between the military Abwehr and the RSHA escalated.[2] References
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