Reserve Police Battalion 101
Reserve Police Battalion 101 | |
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Active | Founded 1939 Enlarged 6 May 1940 |
Country | mass murder of Jews |
Commanders | |
Commander | Wilhelm Trapp |
Reserve Police Battalion 101 (German: Reserve-Polizei-Bataillon 101) was a Nazi German paramilitary formation of the uniformed police force known as the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police, Orpo), the organization formed by the Nazi unification of the civilian police forces in the country in 1936, placed under the leadership of the SS and grouped into battalions in 1939.[1] One of many such Nazi German Order Police battalions, 101 was formed in Hamburg and was deployed in September 1939 along with the German armed forces (Wehrmacht) in the invasion of Poland.
Reserve Police Battalion 101 guarded Polish prisoners of war and carried out
History
Between 1939 and 1945, the Ordnungspolizei maintained
The shootings in the
Battalion 101 operations
A total of 17 Orpo battalions were deployed during the invasion of Poland in 1939. Battalion 101 was one of three from the city of Hamburg.[1] After a few months of active duty the battalion was transported from Kielce, Poland, back to Germany on 17 December 1939 to undergo a major expansion after Christmas. Servicemen were tasked with organizing additional ground units. The already enlarged battalion was deployed to Poland again in May 1940, and for the next five months, conducted mass expulsions of Poles[18] to make room for the German colonists brought in Heim ins Reich from the areas invaded by their Moscow ally as well as from Nazi Germany.[19]
The expulsions of Poles, along with kidnappings of Polish children for the purpose of
During the early period we endeavored to fetch all people out of the houses, without regard for whether they were old, sick, or small children. The commission quickly found fault with our procedures. They objected that we struggled under the burden of the old and sick. To be precise, they did not initially give us the order to shoot them on the spot, rather they contented themselves with making it clear to us that nothing could be done with such people. — Bruno Probst[18]
For the next half-year, beginning 28 November 1940, Police Battalion 101 guarded the new ghetto in
Return to Poland, June 1942 – November 1943
The Reserve Battalion 101 composed of 500 men in their thirties, who were too old for the regular army, returned to occupied Poland with three heavy machine-gun detachments in June 1942.
The first mass murder known to have been committed entirely by Reserve Police Battalion 101 was the most "messy" for lack of training; uniforms dripping wet with brain matter and blood.
The next ghetto liquidation action took place less than a month later in
More deportations
In the following weeks, Police Battalion 101 was active in towns with direct lines to Treblinka and therefore mass shootings were not used. On 19 August 1942 – only two days after Łomazy – 3,000 Jews were deported from
In Międzyrzec the "strip-search" of young Jewish women was introduced by Gnade before executions dubbed "mopping up" actions by the Germans. Gnade's first sergeant later said: "I must say that First Lieutenant Gnade gave me the impression that the entire business afforded him a great deal of pleasure."[46] By the spring of 1943 most towns of the Lublin reservation were Judenfrei therefore the battalion was tasked with "Jew hunts" in the deep local forests, or in the potato fields and around distant farmlands. Thousands of Jews were shot at point-blank range.[48]
The participation of Reserve Police Battalion 101 in the
At the conclusion of the Erntefest massacres, the district of Lublin was for all practical purposes judenfrei. The murderous participation of Reserve Police Battalion 101 in the Final Solution came to an end... For a battalion of less than 500 men, the ultimate body count was at least 83,000 Jews.[51]
Postwar history
Soon after the war ended, Major Wilhelm Trapp was captured by the British authorities and placed at the
Summary of genocidal missions
For the most part, the following table is based on the 1968 verdict of the Hamburg District Court and compared with data from the
Murder operations of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 in occupied Poland | |||
Location | Date | Operation type and participants | Jewish victims |
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Józefów | July 1942 | Mass shooting / entire battalion | 1,500 |
Łomazy | August 1942 | Mass shooting / 2nd Company, Hiwis | 1,700 |
Parczew[57] | August 1942 | Extermination, death trains / 1st & 2nd Company, Hiwis | 5,000 |
Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto[58] | August 1942 | Extermination / 1st Co., 3rd Pl. 2nd Co., 1st Pl. 3rd Co., Hiwis | 12,000 |
Radzyń | October 1942 | Extermination, death trains /1st Company, Hiwis | 2,000 |
Parczew | October 1942 | Mass shooting / 1st & 2nd Company, Hiwis | 5,000 |
Biała Podlaska & its county | October & November 1942 | Międzyrzec Ghetto extermination, death trains | 10,800 |
Komarówka | October & November 1942 | Międzyrzec Ghetto | 600 |
Wohyń | October & November 1942 | Międzyrzec Ghetto | 800 |
Czemierniki | October & November 1942 | Międzyrzec Ghetto | 1,000 |
Radzyń | October & November 1942 | Extermination, death trains | 2,000 |
Międzyrzec Ghetto | October & November 1942 | Death camps | 15,200 |
Międzyrzec Ghetto[59] | May 1943 | Death camps; Treblinka |
3,000 |
Aktion Erntefest |
3 November 1943 | Two days of mass shooting / entire battalion | 43,000 |
Total[60] | July 1942 – November 1943 | Battalion 101 in occupied Poland | (83,000) |
Commanders
Upon its return to
- 1st Company: Captain, Hauptsturmführer Julius Wohlauf (until October 1942, then Captain Steidtmann)
- 1st Platoon: Second Lieutenant Boysen
- 2nd Platoon: Reserve Second Lieutenant Bumann
- 3rd Platoon: Zugwachmeister Junge
- 2nd Company: Oberleutnant Hartwig Gnade (until May 1943, then Lieutenant Dreyer)
- 1st Platoon: Second Lieutenant Schürer
- 2nd Platoon: Reserve Second Lieutenant Kurt Dreyer
- 3rd Platoon: Hauptwachmeister Starke
- 3rd Company: Captain Wolfgang Hoffmann (until November 1942)
- 1st Platoon: Second Lieutenant Pauly
- 2nd Platoon: Second Lieutenant Hachmeister
- 3rd Platoon: Hauptwachmeister Jückmann
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Struan Robertson. "Hamburg Police Battalions during the Second World War". Archived from the original on 22 February 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 39.
- ^ Goldhagen 1996, pp. 203, 232–3.
- ^ a b Nowak, Anna (2014). "Działania eksterminacyjne batalionu policyjnego 101" [Police Battalion 101 Extermination Actions]. WWW Holocaust Myoptimus Com (in Polish). Uniwersytet Marii Curie Skłodowskiej. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014.
- ^ Goldhagen 1996, p. 204.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 38.
- ISBN 0809001845.
- ^ Goldhagen 1996, p. 186.
- ISBN 0-7603-1933-2.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 9–12.
- ^ Dieter Pohl. Hans Krueger and the Murder of the Jews in the Stanislawow Region (Galicia) (PDF file from Yad Vashem.org). pp. 12/13, 17/18, 21.
It is clear that a massacre of such proportions [committed on 12 October 1941] under German civil administration was virtually unprecedented.
- ^ Browning 2004, pp. 349–350.
- ISBN 0415224020. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 18.
- ^ Goldhagen 1996, pp. 533–4.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 52: "[Hiwis] were screened on the basis of their anti-Communist (and hence almost invariably anti-Semitic) sentiments."
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 135–142.
- ^ a b c Browning 1998, p. 40.
- ^ Lukas 2001, Chapter IV (Part I).
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- ^ Lukas 2001, Chapter IV (Part II).
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- ^ Holocaust Encyclopedia (2014). "Ghettos". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 41.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 45–8.
- ^ Goldhagen 1996, p. 204.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 42–4.
- ^ Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. "German Crimes in Poland (Warsaw: 1946, 1947) - Chelmno Extermination Camp". JewishGen. Introduction by Leon Zamosc.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 3–6. "How did a battalion of middle-aged reserve policemen find themselves facing the task of shooting some 1,500 Jews in the Polish village of Józefów in the summer of 1942? [...] Order Police received authorization to conscript 91,500 reservists born between 1901 and 1909 – an age group not as yet subject to the military draft [...] gradually extended to still older men."
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 27.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 51–3.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 64–8.
- ^ a b Browning 1998, pp. 57–64.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 66.
- ^ Robert Kuwalek, Chris Webb (2007). "Jozefow". Holocaust Research Project.org. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
- ^ a b Olga Skorupka; et al. (2014). "Józefów. Lata okupacji". Virtual Shtetl. Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 69.
- ^ Zygmunt Puźniak, Eksterminacja ludności cywilnej i zagłada Żydów józefowskich [Killing of civilians and the annihilation of Jews of Józefów] Rzeczpospolita Jozefowska.wordpress.com, see: Zygmunt Klukowski, Dziennik z lat okupacji, "17 lipca"; and T. Bernstein, Martyrologia, opór i zagłada ludności żydowskiej w dystrykcie lubelskim. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
- ^ a b Browning 1998, pp. 79–80.
- ^ Patrycja Kamionek; et al. (2014). "Łomazy". Virtual Shtetl. Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 83–4.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 90–100.
- ^ Aleksandra Bielawska, Marta Kubiszyn, Jewish community of Zamość. Page 4 of 4. Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Izbica Jewish Cemetery Commemoration Project. Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ a b Browning 1998, pp. 106–8.
- ^ Hanan Lipszyc, Jewish Community of Izbica. Page 4 of 5. Archived 22 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 126–131.
- ^ ARC (2004). "Erntefest". Occupation of the East. ARC. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 135–42.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 141–2.
- ^ שדלץ (Siedlce) (2014). "The Investigation of and Legal Proceedings against members of Hamburg Police Battalions". Hamburg Police Battalions. The Law. Jewish Siedlce. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^ "About Simon Wiesenthal". Simon Wiesenthal Center. 2013. Section 11. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
- ^ Hartmann, Ralph (2010). "Der Alibiprozeß". Den Aufsatz kommentieren (in German). Ossietzky 9/2010. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
- ISBN 9004157085
- ^ Struan Robertson, A History of Jews in Hamburg Chapter: Hamburg Police Battalions during the Second World War. Publisher: University of Hamburg.
- Museum of the History of the Polish Jews (in English), as well as "Getta Żydowskie (Jewish Ghettos)," by Gedeon, (in Polish) and "Ghetto List" (deportations)by Michael Peters at ARC (in English). Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ^ "Międzyrzec Podlaski (Mezritch) in the Jewish sources" and "The History of Miedzyrzec Podlaski." Association of Immigrants of Mezritch Depodalsia. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ^ Browning 1998, p. 40.
- ^ Browning 1998, pp. 141–142.
References
- Browning, Christopher R. (1998) [1992]. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (PDF). Penguin Books. Archived(PDF) from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
- ——— (2004). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942. The Comprehensive History of the Holocaust. With contributions by ISBN 0-8032-1327-1.
- ISBN 0679446958.
- Lukas, Richard C. (2001). "Chapter IV, Germanization". Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939–1945. New York City: Hippocrene Books. Project InPosterum - Preserving the Past for the Future (reprint).
External links
- SJ & Carmelo Lisciotto (2007), Police Battalion 101 in Poland Holocaust Research Project.org