YeAH, the Gestapo were a civilian organization, not a military one. More like the ATF on steroids.
Don’t you remember all the old movies with the Gestapo guy in a long coat and fedora hat, saying, “We haf ways of making you talk!”
Spoofed in the Indiana Jones movie by the scene with the Gestapo guy unfolding a coat hanger.
That’s right. They were nasty bastards. Plenty of the Progressives of today would fit right in and help load us on the cattle cars.