Curb-stomping is not a "Nazi" tactic, it's a street gang thing, born right here in America.
Wrong, my family knew a German Jew (he was in a concentration camp, had the tattoo to prove it). He told us about the Nazi's curb stomping Jews. It's why the Gestapo preferred heavier boots.
The GESTAPO DIDN'T wear boots. They wore shoes like every other secret policeman.
LOL Uh the Gestapo wore boots.
You are both right
Gestapo - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Before their 1939 amalgamation into the RSHA, the Gestapo and Kripo were plainclothes police agencies and had no uniforms. Although individual Gestapo officers could and did join the
Allgemeine-SS or other Party organizations, those uniforms would not have been worn on duty.
From June 1936, a concerted effort was made to recruit policemen of the SiPo into the SS, and SS members into the Kripo and especially the Gestapo, but with limited success; by 1939 only a small percentage of Gestapo agents were SS members. With the formation of RSHA in September 1939, Gestapo officers who also held SS rank began to wear the wartime grey
SS uniform when on duty in the
Hauptamt or regional headquarters (
Abschnitte). Hollywood notwithstanding, after 1939 the black SS uniform was only worn by
Allgemeine-SS reservists; it was abolished in 1942.
[75] Outside the central offices, Gestapo agents working out of the
Stapostellen and
Stapoleitstellen continued to wear civilian suits in keeping with the secretive nature of their work.
There were strict protocols protecting the identity of Gestapo field personnel. When asked for identification, an operative was only required to present his warrant disc. This identified the operative as Gestapo without revealing personal identity and agents, except when ordered to do so by an authorized official, were not required to show picture identification, something all non-Gestapo people were expected to do.
Beginning in 1940, the grey SS uniform was worn by Gestapo in occupied countries, even those who were not actually SS members, because agents in civilian clothes had been shot by members of the
Wehrmacht thinking that they were partisans.
Unlike the rest of the SS, the right-side collar patch of the RSHA was plain black without insignia, as was the uniform cuffband. Gestapo agents in uniform did not wear SS shoulderboards, but rather
police-pattern shoulderboards piped or underlaid in "poison green" (
giftgrün). A diamond-shaped black patch with "SD" in white was worn on the lower left sleeve even by SiPo men who were not actually in the SD. Sometimes this
Raute was piped in white; there is some debate over whether this may or may not have indicated Gestapo personnel.