After Hitler became chancellor of Germany, he persuaded his cabinet to declare a state of emergency and end many individual freedoms. Here, police search a vehicle for arms. Berlin, Germany, February 27, 1933. Photograph »

Police search a messenger employed by the Social Democratic newspaper VORWAERTS. Berlin, Germany, March 4, 1933. Photograph »

A notice reads "Business closed by the police due to profiteering. Owner in protective custody at Dachau." Signed by police chief Heinrich Himmler. Munich, Germany, April or May 1933. Photograph »

Headquarters of the Nazi Gestapo (secret state police) and of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). Berlin, Germany, date uncertain. Photograph »

Police search in Berlin. Germany, 1933. Photograph »

Prisoners at forced labor under SS and police guard in the Oranienburg concentration camp. Oranienburg, Germany, 1934. Photograph »

German police parade before Adolf Hitler in front of Hotel Deutsches Haus, at a Nazi Party Congress rally. Nuremberg, Germany, September 10, 1937. Photograph »

SS and Nazi police prepare for a raid on the Jewish community offices in Vienna. Austria, March 18, 1938. Photograph »

German police raid a vandalized Jewish home in the Lodz ghetto. Lodz, Poland, ca. 1942. Photograph »

German police and Ukrainian collaborators force Jewish prisoners to undress before they are shot. Chernigov, Soviet Union, 1942. Photograph »

A German policeman interrogates a Jewish man accused of trying to smuggle a loaf of bread into the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw, Poland, 1942-1943. Photograph »

Arthur Nebe, head of the Nazi criminal police (Kripo). Germany, date uncertain. Photograph »

SS General Ernst Kaltenbrunner served as head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and as chief of Nazi Security Police (Sipo) and the Security Service (SD). Germany, 1943. Photograph »

Heinrich Mueller, the head of the Gestapo, the Third Reich's secret state police. Place and date unknown. Photograph »