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 NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs Ordnungspolizei NERFINISHED
areaOfOperations Greater German Reich NERFINISHED
occupied Eastern Europe
occupied Poland
occupied Soviet territories
collaboratedWith Einsatzgruppen NERFINISHED
SS NERFINISHED
Wehrmacht NERFINISHED
commandedBy Kurt Daluege NERFINISHED
component Feuerschutzpolizei NERFINISHED
Gemeindepolizei NERFINISHED
Gendarmerie NERFINISHED
Schutzpolizei NERFINISHED
Technische Nothilfe NERFINISHED
police battalions
country Nazi Germany
dateEstablished 1936
disbandedAfter defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
establishedBy Heinrich Himmler NERFINISHED
Nazi regime NERFINISHED
ideology Nazism
antisemitism
involvedIn Holocaust in Eastern Europe NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
organizedAs battalions
regiments
partOf Nazi security apparatus
positionOfCommander Chief of the Order Police NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Reich Ministry of the Interior NERFINISHED
Reichsführer-SS NERFINISHED
SS NERFINISHED
successorInGermany post-war German police forces

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