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Mar 16, 2022 · In retaliation, the Green Police — German Nazi officers in long green coats and high boots — randomly grabbed about 400 Jewish men off the streets during a two-day sweep, ultimately forcing...
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Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was named Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern (Chief of German Police in the Interior Ministry) on 17 June 1936 after Hitler announced a decree which was to "unify the control of police duties in the Reich". Traditionally, law enforcement in Germany had been a state and local matter. In this r...
The Orpo was under the control of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler who was the Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Ministerium des Innern (Chief of the German Police in the Ministry of the Interior). It was initially commanded by SS-Oberstgruppenführer und Generaloberst der Polizei Kurt Daluege. But in 1943, Daluege had a massive heart attack and was rem...
Between 1939 and 1945, the Ordnungspolizei also maintained separate military formations, independent of the main police offices within Germany. The first such formations were the Police Battalions (SS-Polizei-Bataillone), for various auxiliary duties outside of Germany, including anti-partisan operations, construction of defense works (i.e. Atlanti...
The primary military arm of the Ordnungspolizei was the SS Polizei Division, 4th Panzergrenadier Division of the Waffen-SS. Mainly used as a rear guard and reserve formation, the Polizei Division was historically known as being undertrained and lacking in skilled combat tactics. The division consisted of four police regiments composed of Orpo perso...
The Ordnungspolizei was separate from the SS and maintained a system of insignia and Orpo ranks. It was possible for policemen to be members of the SS but without active duties. Police generals who were members of the SS were referred to simultaneously by both rank titles during the war. For instance, a Generalleutnant in the Police who was also an...
At the close of the Second World War, the Orpo ceased to exist; but many of its personnel continued with business as usual, performing police services for the Allied occupation forces. The traditions of the Orpo continued in East Germany, which maintained a state police force (Volkspolizei) designed after the SS structures, being based on a central...
Police Long Service AwardSchutzmannschaft, certain auxiliary policemen raised from local populations to fight partisans in occupied Eastern Europe during World War II.Browning, Christopher, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-77490-X.Lumsden, Robin, A Collector's Guide To: The Allgemeine - SS, Ian Allan Publishing, Inc. 2001. ISBN 0-7110-2905-9.Williams, Max, Reinhard Heydrich: The Biography: Volume 1, Ulric Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-9537577-5-7.Nix Philip and Jerome Georges The Uniformed Police Forces of the Third Reich 1933-1945, Leandoer & Ekholm, 2006. ISBN 91-975894-3-8Browning, Christopher (1992). Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-019013-2.
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As during the Great War, police service was not a reserved occupation and the ranks were diminished by conscription. Before the war the police numbered around 60,000 (only 300 of whom were women) across 182 County and City Constabularies. To cope with this the number of Special Constables was increased to around 130,000, about seven thousand of ...
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In September 1919, 2,500 local and municipal police officers protested against the formation of the new national-police service. In contrast to local police, who usually wore blue uniforms, the Sipo were called the "green police" after the color of their uniforms.
His helmet has a light up sign saying 'Police' and he carries red and green hand lamps to control traffic. Many police were called blackout bobbies because they had to...
