Order Police battalions

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Holocaust perpetrator unit Nazi paramilitary unit police battalion

The Order Police battalions were Nazi German paramilitary units that played a central role in mass shootings, deportations, and other atrocities against Jews and civilians during the Holocaust.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
German police units	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Holocaust perpetrator unit ⓘ Nazi paramilitary unit ⓘ police battalion ⓘ
activeFrom	1939 ⓘ
activeUntil	1945 ⓘ
commandLanguage	German ⓘ
cooperatedWith	Einsatzgruppen ⓘ SS ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ local collaborationist forces ⓘ
country	Nazi Germany ⓘ
disbandedAfter	defeat of Nazi Germany ⓘ
historicalAssessment	key instrument of Nazi genocidal policy ⓘ
ideology	Nazism ⓘ antisemitism ⓘ
involvedIn	Operation Reinhard ⓘ massacres in occupied Poland ⓘ massacres in occupied Soviet territories ⓘ
notableUnit	German Ordnungspolizei ⓘ surface form: Reserve Police Battalion 101
operatedIn	German-occupied Eastern Europe ⓘ German occupation of Poland ⓘ surface form: German-occupied Poland German occupation of parts of the Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: German-occupied Soviet Union
organizedAs	battalion-sized units ⓘ
partOf	German Ordnungspolizei ⓘ surface form: Ordnungspolizei
perpetrated	crimes against humanity ⓘ genocidal massacres ⓘ war crimes ⓘ
recruitedFrom	German Ordnungspolizei ⓘ surface form: German Order Police middle-aged German men ⓘ reserve policemen ⓘ
roleIn	Holocaust shootings in the Soviet Union ⓘ surface form: Holocaust in Eastern Europe anti-partisan warfare ⓘ deportations of Jews ⓘ ethnic cleansing operations ⓘ ghetto liquidations ⓘ guarding forced-labor camps ⓘ guarding ghettos ⓘ guarding transit camps ⓘ mass shootings of Jews ⓘ
subordinateTo	HeinrichHimmler ⓘ surface form: Heinrich Himmler Kurt Daluege ⓘ Ministry of the Interior of Nazi Germany ⓘ surface form: Reich Ministry of the Interior
targetedGroup	Jews ⓘ Polish civilians ⓘ Roma ⓘ Soviet civilians ⓘ political opponents ⓘ
timePeriod	World War II ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

German Ordnungspolizei → hasPart → Order Police battalions ⓘ

Lublin Ghetto → hasPerpetrator → Order Police battalions ⓘ

this entity surface form: German police units

Final Solution → perpetratorUnit → Order Police battalions ⓘ