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    Kriminalpolizei (German pronunciation: [ˌkrɪmiˈnaːlpoliˌt͡saɪ̯] , "criminal police") is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within...
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  • Kriminalpolizei (English: Criminal Police), often abbreviated as Kripo, is the German name for a criminal investigation department. This article deals...
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    secretary general of Interpol since November 7, 2014. Stock joined the Kriminalpolizei in Hesse in 1978 and stayed on as an officer until 1992. Between 1992...
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  • had been called up for military service. Following his arrest by the Kriminalpolizei, Ogorzow was convicted of killing eight women and executed at Plötzensee...
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    Prussian police force to become head of Nazi Germany's Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei; Kripo) in 1936, which was amalgamated into the Reich Security Main...
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    Reinhard Heydrich in 1931. From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal...
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  • against the Polish resistance. The Germans also created a Polnische Kriminalpolizei.[citation needed]. The Polish criminal police team was trained at the...
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  • Prisoner Number Seven (German: Achtung! - Kriminalpolizei! or Gefangene Nr. 7, Hungarian: Rabmadár) is a 1929 German-Hungarian drama film directed by...
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    the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo; "Secret State Police") and the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; "Criminal Police"). In correspondence, the RSHA was often abbreviated...
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    by the combined forces of the Gestapo (secret state police) and the Kriminalpolizei (criminal police; Kripo) between 1936 and 1939. As a formal agency...
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    Fliegerabwehrkanone, 'anti-aircraft gun'); Kripo rather than KP (for Kriminalpolizei, 'detective division police'). The extension of such contraction to...
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    which won many awards, where German Shepherd Rex assists the Vienna Kriminalpolizei homicide unit. Kántor [hu] was a famous and very successful police...
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    as the uniformed Ordnungspolizei and plainclothes detectives of the Kriminalpolizei. The original PP was released in 1929. It was designed for police use...
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  • belief, many date back to before 1933, if not the end of the Great War. Kriminalpolizei, literally criminal police but idiomatically the Criminal Investigation...
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    Staatspolizei or Gestapo) and criminal investigation police (Kriminalpolizei or Kripo). The Kriminalpolizei was a corps of professional detectives involved in fighting...
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    under SS general Kurt Daluege. Shortly thereafter, Himmler created the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; Criminal Police), merging it with the Gestapo into the Sicherheitspolizei...
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    Germany Participants Schutzstaffel (SS) Security Police (SiPo) Gestapo Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) SD Order Police battalions Waffen-SS Wehrmacht Ghetto World...
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  • co-ordinate the action of the law enforcement forces against crime. Kriminalpolizei is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the...
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    consisting of the Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police; Gestapo) and Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police; Kripo). At that point, Heydrich was head of the SiPo...
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    brought under their administrative control included the SD, Gestapo, Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; criminal investigative police), and Ordnungspolizei (Orpo;...
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  • sub-departments, the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo; secret state police) and Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; criminal police) In September 1939, the SiPo and the Sicherheitsdienst...
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    cities with more than 50,000 residents) were transferred to the state Kriminalpolizei. Source: The German Police (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary...
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    Possibly due to BND pressure, Silberbauer was reinstated by the Viennese Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) in 1954, four years after the German publication of Anne Frank's...
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  • information-gathering agency, while the Gestapo—and to a degree the Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei or Kripo)—was the executive agency of the political-police system....
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    Police") – the latter comprising the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) and Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) police agencies – were combined into the new Reichssicherheitshauptamt...
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    routine law and order duties, and Criminal Police Office (German: Kriminalpolizei / almost always abbreviated with KriPo), who carry out criminal investigations...
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    The men of the Einsatzgruppen were recruited from the SD, Gestapo, Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), Orpo, and Waffen-SS. Each Einsatzgruppe was under the operational...
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    under German control) Sicherheitspolizei (native German) composed of: Kriminalpolizei (German) Gestapo (German) The most numerous OrPo battalions focused...
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    included the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo), Ordnungspolizei (Orpo), Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), and Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo). In addition, the Nazi intelligence...
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    Angriff), even if the case is later handed over to investigators of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Investigation Police). Schutzpolizei officers are also responsible...
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