Sicherheitsdienst

The RSHA also included the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service), a security department in charge of foreign and domestic intelligence and espionage.

…Sipo was joined with the Sicherheitsdienst, an SS intelligence department, to form the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (“Reich Security Central Office”) under Heydrich. In that bureaucratic maze, the functions of the Gestapo often overlapped with those of other security departments, with which the Gestapo had both to cooperate and compete. Owing to its…

… 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…

…with the organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; “Security Service”), the intelligence and surveillance arm of the SS.