1991 Death Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77 1983 Event Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial 1945 Death Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 1944 Event Klaus Barbie, Gestapo head of Lyon France leaves for Auschwitz 1944 Death Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated 1944 Event Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber 1944 Event 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo 1942 Event Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173 1941 Event 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo 1940 Event Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst 1933 Event German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established 1913 Birthday Klaus Barbie, gestapo chief, Lyon 1906 Birthday Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer 1900 Birthday Heinrich Himmler, head of Gestapo, war criminal
