Order Police

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The Order Police were Nazi Germany’s uniformed police force that played a central role in occupation, repression, and mass murder, particularly in Eastern Europe during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi paramilitary organization
uniformed police force
abbreviation Orpo
alsoKnownAs Ordnungspolizei
areaOfOperations Greater German Reich
occupied Eastern Europe
occupied Poland
occupied Soviet territories
collaboratedWith Einsatzgruppen
SS
Wehrmacht
commandedBy Kurt Daluege
component Feuerschutzpolizei
Gemeindepolizei
Gendarmerie
Schutzpolizei
Technische Nothilfe
police battalions
country Nazi Germany
dateEstablished 1936
disbandedAfter defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
establishedBy Heinrich Himmler
linked to: HeinrichHimmler

Nazi regime
linked to: Nazi Germany
ideology Nazism
antisemitism
involvedIn Holocaust in Eastern Europe
crimes against humanity
ethnic cleansing operations
mass shootings of Jews
war crimes
legalBasis centralization of German police under SS control
operatedInPeriod Nazi era
World War II
organizedAs battalions
regiments
partOf Nazi security apparatus
positionOfCommander Chief of the Order Police
role anti-partisan warfare
deportation of Jews
ghetto guarding and liquidation
internal security
occupation force
participation in mass murder
repression of civilian populations
support of the Holocaust
subjectOf historical research on perpetrators of the Holocaust
subordinateTo Heinrich Himmler
linked to: HeinrichHimmler

Reich Ministry of the Interior
Reichsführer-SS
SS
successorInGermany post-war German police forces

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