Order Police battalions were battalion-sized militarised units of Nazi Germany's Ordnungspolizei which existed during World War II from 1939 to 1945. They were subordinated to the Schutzstaffel and de
Police battalions in parade formation, Minsk, occupied Belarus, 1943
Order Police unit conducting a raid (razzia) in the Kraków ghetto, 1941
Wehrmacht propaganda photograph of the Jewish women in Mogilev, July 1941. Mogilev Jews were murdered by Police Battalion 322 of Police Regiment Centre in October 1941.
The Ordnungspolizei were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. The Orpo was absorbed into the Nazi monopoly of power after regional police jurisdiction was removed in favour of
Order Police battalions
…Order Police battalions were battalion-sized militarised units of Nazi Germany's Ordnungspolizei which existed during World War II from 1939 to 1945. They were subordinated to the Schutzstaffel and deployed in areas of German-occupied Europe…
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 roundup in the Kraków Ghetto, January 1941 Biała Podlaska Ghetto liquidation action, 1942
Ordnungspolizei in Minsk, Reichskommissariat Ostland, Weißruthenien, 1943
Order Police descending to the cellars on a Jew-hunt in Lublin, December 1940. The Lublin Ghetto was set up in March 1941.