Editing Reinhard Heydrich (section)

===Gestapo and SD===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R97512, Berlin, Geheimes Staatspolizeihauptamt.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Gestapo]] headquarters on [[Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse]] in Berlin, 1933]]
In mid-1932, Himmler appointed Heydrich chief of the renamed security service—the ''[[Sicherheitsdienst]]'' (SD).{{sfn|Longerich|2012|p=125}} Heydrich's counterintelligence service grew into an effective machine of terror and intimidation. With Hitler striving for absolute power in Germany, Himmler and Heydrich wished to control the political police forces of all 17 German states. They began with [[Bavaria]]. In 1933, Heydrich gathered some of his men from the SD and together they stormed police headquarters in Munich and took over the organisation using intimidation tactics. Himmler became the Munich police chief and Heydrich became the commander of Department IV, the [[Bavarian Political Police|political police]].{{sfn|Longerich|2012|p=149}}

In 1933, Hitler became [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]], and through a series of decrees{{sfn|Shirer|1960|pp=196–200}} became Germany's ''[[Führer|Führer und Reichskanzler]]'' (leader and chancellor).{{sfn|Shirer|1960|pp=226–227}} The first [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camp]]s, which were originally intended to house political opponents, were established in early 1933. By year's end there were over fifty camps.{{sfn|Shirer|1960|p=271}}

[[Hermann Göring]] founded the [[Gestapo]] in 1933 as a [[Prussia]]n police force. When Göring transferred full authority over the Gestapo to Himmler in April 1934, it immediately became an instrument of terror under the SS's purview.{{sfn|Shirer|1960|pp=270–271}} Himmler named Heydrich to head the Gestapo on 22 April 1934.{{sfn|Williams|2001|p=61}} Also in April, Göring made Heydrich an advisor to the Prussian government with an appointment to the [[Prussian State Council (Nazi Germany)|Prussian State Council]].{{sfn|Miller|Schulz|2015|p=121}} On 9 June 1934, [[Rudolf Hess]] declared the SD the official Nazi intelligence service.{{sfn|Longerich|2012|p=165}}