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    The Ordnungspolizei (Orpo, German: [ˈɔʁdnʊŋspoliˌtsaɪ], meaning "Order Police") were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. The...
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    insignia of the Ordnungspolizei were developed in 1936 after the nationalisation of Germany's regular police forces. Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) ranks were...
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  • (1921-1945) Ordnungspolizei, regular Police forces of Nazi Germany 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division, SS unit formed by Ordnungspolizei members Hilfspolizei...
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    October 1946) was a German SS and police official who served as chief of Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) of Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1943, as well as the Deputy/Acting...
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  • In 1942 the club was again renamed, becoming Sportgemeinschaft der Ordnungspolizei Lübeck, and moved to the Gauliga Schleswig-Holstein when wartime conditions...
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  • Nazi Germany under the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler from 1936: Ordnungspolizei (Orpo; order police) consisting of the regular uniformed police Gemeindepolizei...
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    military (officers), including the Luftwaffe, as well as the uniformed Ordnungspolizei and plainclothes detectives of the Kriminalpolizei. The original PP...
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    Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Referat IV B4 Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) Waffen-SS Wehrmacht Units Einsatzgruppen Police Regiments Order...
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    Gruppenführer. This changed with the rise of the Waffen-SS and the Ordnungspolizei. In both of those organizations, Brigadeführer was the equivalent to...
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    German Ordnungspolizei officers examining a man's papers in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1941...
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  • enzyme Ketodeoxyoctonic acid Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei (KdO), commander of the German Ordnungspolizei during World War II This disambiguation page...
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  • Orpo may refer to: the abbreviation of Ordnungspolizei Petteri Orpo, Finnish politician This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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    Personnel Organizations Einsatzgruppen (SS) Order Police battalions (Ordnungspolizei) WVHA RKFDV VoMi General Government Hotel Polski Collaboration Schutzmannschaft...
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  • of Nazi Germany's uniformed police force known as the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei). The Battalion was the subject of Christopher Browning's Ordinary...
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    he joined the Gendarmerie, or rural police force, a branch of the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) reporting to the Ministry of the Interior. From April...
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    Order Police battalions (category Ordnungspolizei)
    battalions were battalion-sized militarised units of Nazi Germany's Ordnungspolizei which existed during World War II from 1939 to 1945. They were subordinated...
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    Night of the Long Knives Kurt Daluege, chief of the Ordnungspolizei; Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS; and Ernst Röhm, head of the SA, August 1933 Native name...
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  • by the German populace. In 1936, the police were divided into the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo or Order Police) and the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo or Security...
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  • Auxiliary Corps. Helferinnen der Ordnungspolizei During the war, the female civilian employees of the Ordnungspolizei were augmented with drafted female...
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  • commanded various components of the SS and the German uniformed police (Ordnungspolizei), before and during World War II in the German Reich proper and in...
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    Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz...
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    Protectorate. 31 May 1942–20 August 1943: Kurt Daluege, Chief of the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police) or Orpo, in the Interior Ministry, who was also officially...
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    and police functions, it served alongside the German Army (Heer), Ordnungspolizei (Order Police), and other security units. Originally, it was under...
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    1944; only the men on the far left and far right end of the line appear to be uniformed members, with the far right being an Ordnungspolizei officer....
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    Gestapo, Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; criminal investigative police), and Ordnungspolizei (Orpo; regular uniformed police). In his capacity as police chief,...
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    2023. Zur Geschichte der Ordnungspolizei 1936–1942, Teil II, Georg Tessin, Dies Satbe und Truppeneinheiten der Ordnungspolizei, Koblenz 1957, s. 172–173...
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    a fire police unit in Nazi Germany and a branch of Nazi Germany's Ordnungspolizei, formed in 1938 when the German municipal professional fire brigades...
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  • 1938 Adolf Hitler decreed that the SS-VT was neither a part of the Ordnungspolizei (order police) nor the Wehrmacht, but military-trained men at the disposal...
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    uniformed law enforcement agencies, which were amalgamated into the new Ordnungspolizei (Orpo: "order police"), which became a branch of the SS under Daluege...
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    Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (12 June 1888 – 29 January 1971) was a German SS and police (Ordnungspolizei) official during the Nazi era, who served on the personal staff of...
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