Orpo

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Orpo was the uniformed regular police force of Nazi Germany, responsible for maintaining public order and involved in numerous wartime atrocities and repressive activities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf law enforcement agency
uniformed police force
alignedWith SS
alsoKnownAs Order Police
German Ordnungspolizei
surface form: Regular Police of Nazi Germany
commandStructureIntegratedWith SS and Police Leaders system
country Nazi Germany
dissolvedAsResultOf defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II
dissolvedIn 1945
fullName German Ordnungspolizei
surface form: Ordnungspolizei
hasBranch Feuerschutzpolizei
Gemeindepolizei
gendarmerie
surface form: Gendarmerie

Hilfspolizei
German Ordnungspolizei
surface form: Schutzpolizei

Technische Nothilfe
Prussian municipal police
surface form: Verwaltungspolizei
headquartersLocation Berlin
ideology Nazism
involvedIn Holocaust
anti-partisan operations
crimes against humanity
deportation of Jews
forced labor roundups
ghetto policing
mass shootings of civilians
persecution of Jews
repressive activities against occupied populations
war crimes on the Eastern Front
wartime atrocities
jurisdiction Nazi Germany
surface form: German Reich

German-occupied Europe
languageOfName German
notableFor participation in genocidal policies
state repression
operatedInPeriod 1936–1945
organizedAs centralized national police force
partOf Nazi security apparatus
responsibleFor civil defense tasks
fire protection in some areas
general policing
maintaining public order
security in occupied territories
traffic control
subordinateTo HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler

Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany
surface form: Reich Ministry of the Interior

Reichsführer-SS

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