A new type of court, the Volksgerichtshof ("People's Court"), was established in 1934 to deal with political cases.[204] This court handed out over 5,000 death sentences until its dissolution in 1945.[205] The death penalty could be issued for offences such as being a communist, printing seditious leaflets, or even making jokes about Hitler or other officials.[206] The Gestapo was in charge of investigative policing to enforce National Socialist ideology as they located and confined political offenders, Jews, and others deemed undesirable.[207] Political offenders who were released from prison were often immediately re-arrested by the Gestapo and confined in a concentration camp.[208]