Order Police battalions
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The Order Police battalions were militarised formations of the Nazi German
Operational history
The Nazi German
Invasion of Poland
Police troops were first formed into battalion-sized formations for the
Invasion of the Soviet Union
Twenty-three Orpo battalions were slated to take part in the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union,
Comprising about 550 men each, the 300-numbered battalions were raised from recruits mobilised from the 1905–1915 year groups. They were led by career police professionals, steeped in the ideology of
Occupied Western and Southern Europe
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Units
Regular police battalions
- Police Battalion 9 (attached to Einsatzgruppen)
- Police Battalion 45
- Police Battalion 303
- Police Battalion 304
- Police Battalion 307
- Police Battalion 309
- Police Battalion 314
- Police Battalion 315
- Police Battalion 316
- Police Battalion 320
- Police Battalion 322
Reserve police battalions
Aftermath
The Order Police as a whole had not been declared a criminal organisation by the Allies, unlike the SS, and its members were able to reintegrate into society largely unmolested, with many returning to police careers in Austria and West Germany.[10]
References
- ^ a b Showalter 2005, p. xiii.
- ^ Browning 1992, p. 38.
- ^ Rossino, Alexander B., Hitler Strikes Poland, University of Kansas Press: Lawrence, Kansas, 2003, pp 69–72, en passim.
- ^ Hillberg, p 81.
- ^ Westermann 2005, pp. 163–164.
- ^ Westermann 2005, p. 165.
- ^ Westermann 2005, p. 15.
- ^ Breitman 1998, pp. 45–46.
- ^ Breitman 1998, p. 66.
- ^ Westermann 2005, p. 231.
Bibliography
- Arico, Massimo (2010). Ordnungspolizei: Encyclopedia of the German Police Battalions. Stockholm: Leandoer and Ekholm. ISBN 978-91-85657-99-5.
- Beorn, Waitman Wade (2014). ISBN 978-0674725508.
- Blood, Phillip W. (2006). ISBN 978-1-59797-021-1.
- ISBN 9780809001842.
- Curilla, Wolfgang (2010). Der Judenmord in Polen und die deutsche Ordnungspolizei 1939-1945. Paderborn: Schöningh Paderborn. ISBN 978-3-50677043-1.
- Persico, Joseph E. (22 October 2002). Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. ISBN 0-3757-6126-8.
- ISBN 978-0-7006-1724-1.
- Smith, Michael (2004). "Bletchley Park and the Holocaust". In Scott, L. V.; Jackson, P. D. (eds.). Understanding Intelligence in the Twenty-First Century: Journeys in Shadows. ISBN 0714655333.
- Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert (2000). Waffen-SS und Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939 - 1945: ein Überblick anhand der Feldpostübersicht. Osnabrück: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 3-7648-2471-9.
- "Selected Records from the Military Historical Institute Archives, Prague, 1941-1944" (PDF). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2008. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- Westermann, Edward B. (2005). Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East. Kansas City: ISBN 978-0-7006-1724-1.
Further reading
- ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3.
- Rich, Ian (2018). Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions: The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians, 1940-1942. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-03804-2.
- ISBN 9780674025776.