Germany has no secret police. Germany has intelligence agencies and there is one "Landesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz" (State Authority for the Protection of the C

Germany has no secret police. Germany has intelligence agencies and there is one "Landesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz" (State Authority for the Protection of the Constitution) in each german state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany) and one coordinating "Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz" (Federal State Authority for the Protection of the Constitution). None of these has any police authority, e.g. if they want to arrest you they have to go to the police, a judge has to allow your arrest and then you can get arrested - by the police. The last secret police in Germany was the Ministry for State Security (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi) in East Germany. The last secret police for Germany in whole was the Gestapo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo) - we've wised up after that and decided to stop mixing intelligence agencies and police.