German Ordnungspolizei

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The German Ordnungspolizei was the Nazi-era uniformed police force responsible for maintaining public order and playing a key role in occupation, repression, and atrocities across German-controlled Europe during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi police organization
uniformed police force
alsoKnownAs Orpo
commandedBy Kurt Daluege
later SS leaders after Daluege
country Nazi Germany
dissolved after the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
formedBy reorganization of German police under Nazi regime
hasPart Feuerschutzpolizei
Gemeindepolizei
Gendarmerie
Order Police battalions
Reserve Police Battalions
Schutzpolizei
Technische Nothilfe
headquartersLocation Berlin
ideology Nazism
antisemitism
involvedIn Holocaust
genocide of European Jews
genocide of Roma
massacres in Eastern Europe
occupation of the Soviet Union
pacification operations in occupied Poland
suppression of resistance movements
languageOfName German
legalStatusAfterWar classified as criminal organization in context of Nazi police and SS
notableUnit Reserve Police Battalion 101
operatedInPeriod World War II
organizedAs centralized national police force
partOf German police system
SS and police apparatus
linked to: SS state apparatus
recruitmentFrom career police officers
conscripted reservists
responsibleFor anti-partisan warfare
crimes against humanity
deportations to extermination camps
guarding concentration camps
guarding ghettos
internal security in Nazi Germany
maintaining public order
mass shootings of civilians
policing occupied territories
roundups of Jews
security duties in rear areas of the Wehrmacht
war crimes
subordinateTo Heinrich Himmler
linked to: HeinrichHimmler

Reich Ministry of the Interior
Reichsführer-SS
uniform green police uniforms

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Blue Police subordinateTo German Ordnungspolizei
SS Security Service (SD) collaboratedWith Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia authorities hadComponent Czech Protectorate police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Warsaw Ghetto policedBy German Order Police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Kraków Ghetto administeredBy German police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Radom Ghetto administeredBy German police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Operation Reinhard perpetrator German police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Operation Reinhard involvedOrganization German Order Police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz cooperatedWith German police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement relatedTo German Ordnungspolizei
Polnische Polizei im Generalgouvernement relatedTo Schutzpolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Policja Granatowa subordinateTo German Ordnungspolizei
German Ordnungspolizei hasPart Schutzpolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
German Ordnungspolizei hasPart Reserve Police Battalions
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
German Ordnungspolizei notableUnit Reserve Police Battalion 101
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Jewish Military Union enemy German police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Order Police battalions partOf Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Order Police battalions recruitedFrom German Order Police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Order Police battalions notableUnit Reserve Police Battalion 101
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Higher SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands controlled German Order Police in the Netherlands
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Kripo distinctFrom Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Protectorate gendarmerie cooperatedWith German Ordnungspolizei
Battle at Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral in Prague opponent Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Grossaktion Warsaw perpetrator German police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Grossaktion Warsaw implementedBy German Order Police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion perpetrator German Ordnungspolizei
Reich Minister of the Interior supervises Reich police authorities
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
SS and security forces component Ordnungspolizei (Order Police)
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Police Battalion 45 partOf Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Police Battalion 45 commandStructure German Order Police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Arajs Kommando collaboratedWith German Ordnungspolizei
Latvian auxiliary police subordinateTo German Ordnungspolizei
Police Battalion 303 branch Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Police Battalion 303 commandStructure German Order Police
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Herbert Lange employer German Ordnungspolizei
Higher SS and Police Leader hasAuthorityOver Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Blue Police subordinateTo German Ordnungspolizei
Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst supervisedBy Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Feuerschutzpolizei parentOrganization Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Feuerschutzpolizei subordinateTo Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Feuerschutzpolizei partOf Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Orpo fullName Ordnungspolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Orpo alsoKnownAs Regular Police of Nazi Germany
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei
Orpo hasBranch Schutzpolizei
linked to: German Ordnungspolizei