People of the Revolution and the USSR
Security, intelligence and policing
Counter-revolutionary forces
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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- Jean Chiappe Jean Chiappe The Paris prefect of police, hard on the left and indulgent to the leagues, whose dismissal lit the fuse of 6 February
- Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt
- Konstantinos Maniadakis Κωνσταντίνος Μανιαδάκης Architect of the dictatorship's security apparatus
- László Baky Baky László Gendarmerie officer turned National Socialist who as state secretary for the interior in 1944 ran the deportation of Jews with László Endre
- Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler A principal architect of the Nazi racial state
- Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff A senior Nazi SS coordinator who became a late-war negotiating envoy
- René Bousquet René Bousquet Vichy police chief who negotiated with the occupier
- Klaus Barbie Klaus Barbie The Nazi Gestapo chief who made Lyon a center of terror