Schutzmannschaft
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The Schutzmannschaft, or Auxiliary Police was the collaborationist auxiliary police of native policemen serving in those areas of the Soviet Union and the Baltic states occupied by Nazi Germany during
German Order Police officer visiting the Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft unit in Zarig near Kiev, December 1942
Men of the 115th Battalion (Ukrainian) Schutzmannschaft holding a flag with the coat of arms of Ukraine
Ordnungspolizei
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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
Schutzmannschaft
…War II. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), established the Schutzmannschaft on 25 July 1941, and subordinated it to the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei; Orpo). By the end of 1941, some 45,000 men served in Schutzmannschaft units, about half of them in the battalions. During 1942, Schutzmannschaften…
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
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.