Kurt Daluege
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Kurt Max Franz Daluege was a German SS and police official who served as chief of Ordnungspolizei of Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1943, as well as the Deputy/Acting Protector of
Bohemia and Moravia from 1942 to 1943.
Daluege in 1936
Daluege in 1933
Daluege (right) in Kraków in 1939, shaking hands with Heinrich Himmler (left). Hans Frank (center) stands between them.
Memorial in the Czech Republic to children of Lidice murdered on Daluege's orders
Ordnungspolizei
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The Ordnungspolizei, abbreviated Orpo, meaning "Order Police", were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. The Orpo organisation was absorbed into the Nazi monopoly on power after regional police jurisdiction was removed in favour of the central Nazi government. The Orpo was controlled nominally by the Interior Ministry, but its executive functions rested with the leadership of the SS until the end of World War II. Owing to their green uniforms, Orpo were also referred to as Grüne Polizei. The force was first established as a centralised organisation uniting the municipal, city, and rural uniformed police that had been organised on a state-by-state basis.
Clockwise from top left: Kurt Daluege (right), Chief of the Order Police, with Heinrich Himmler, 1943 Unit inspection at Strasbourg, 1940: Daluege (centre), with Bomhard, and Winkler Ordnungspolizei in Minsk, Reichskommissariat Ostland, 1943 Police raid (razzia) in the Kraków Ghetto, January 1941 Biała Podlaska Ghetto liquidation action, 1942
Ordnungspolizei in Minsk, Reichskommissariat Ostland, Weißruthenien, 1943
Ordnungspolizei conducting a raid (razzia) in the Kraków ghetto, 1941
Order Police descending to the cellars on a Jew-hunt in Lublin, December 1940. The Lublin Ghetto was set up in March 1941.