Green Uniforms: The Green Police

The Order Police began after World War I. Germany was trying to create an army of police that had military training and possessed military equipment since under the Treaty of Versailles they were not allowed to have a large army. By 1941 The Order Police became heavily involved in the slaughter of Soviet Jews. They were given a “Commissar Order” which authorized the

As well as allowing the Nazi leadership to work 'outside the law' the Gestapo, together with the SS worked legally to enforce Hitler's will. Opponents of the Nazi government were placed in 'protective custody' to stop them becoming involved in plots to attack the regime. This meant internment in concentration camps, the first of which was opened at Dachau in Munich in March of 1933. The Gestapo also tapped telephones, intercepted mail and spied

The arrests were indiscriminate, to the point where an internal review by the soviet authorities showed that 35,000 people had been wrongfully arrested (Kitchen 2012). Most of these people were released in 1948; however, there were thousands who were handed over to German authorities in 1949 to complete their sentences. Approximately 150,000 Germans were interned between 1945 and 1950, and the death rates in these camps have been estimated to be around 35-40 percent (Bruce 2003, p.6).

Throughout Hitler’s reign over Germany there was an agenda that existed which led to murders of a great number of innocent people. The agenda was the extermination of Jews from Germany so that Germany could become a pure country in terms of ethnicity. It was Hitler’s idea but he only gave the orders while the SS and the Order Police carried out the orders. One group of people that helped carry out this idea of judenfrei or Jew free Germany was the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The men who made up this group were regular men that had come from a variety of careers. Most the men volunteered because the immunity that they would receive from “conscription into the army” once the volunteers had become part of

The SS and Gestapo (secret police) acting under the orders of Himmler, made terror a regular occurrence and a matter of state policy. Any sort of opponents were beaten and regularly thrown

As the 1930’s came along, The Nazi’s set out a series of laws and regulations called ‘Nazi Laws’. One of the very first laws was ,”Laws against Overcrowding in German schools and universities”. This was a result of many children were looked down upon by Hitler and his Nazis as ‘racially inferior’. Letters from German Children to the editor of the Nazi tabloid Der Sturmer reveal a shameful potpourri Lettof and fanaticism against their Jewish classmates. The first punishment for the Jews and Gypsy children was to be presented in front of peers and downgraded by teachers as a lesson for the German children. Then all at once the children were restricted from all schools. Not long after the first act of public humiliation, the Germans invaded many Jewish neighborhoods, families and children were forced into overcrowded ghettos with scarce food resources and unhealthy living conditions . This was the Invasion of Poland, 1939. Jewish children died of starvation and little exposure to shelter, the great numbers of deaths caused by this were a mere indifference to the German officers. And because the food was such a high demanded resource, adults would send small toddlers between the crevices in the gates and over the walls to retrieve portions of food. This started a few of popular resistance activities, underground resistance was large. Sometimes if the Ghettos were run by Jewish relatives, certain ones could escape easier. Punishments would include

The nazi did many things to make the jews feel less human and more like “things”. One way was they were taken from their home no explanation, no reason just told them to get their belongings. They only gave them 24hr to get a small bag of their belongings. “I have terrible news ; deportation.

Gestapo,was a German secret police force, which was created in 1933 after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany.

They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. “Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets” (Wiesel 16).

In Christopher Browning’s book, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, he explains to us all about his study of German Order Police Reserve Unit 101 and their experiences during the Holocaust. During the time of the Holocaust, Reserve Unit 101 committed many massacres and round-ups of the Jewish population for deportation to the Nazi concentration camps occupied by Germany in Poland. These men of Unit 101 were normal middle-aged men, who were drafted to be Nazi soldiers, but found ineligible for regular military duty. Upon their return to Poland in 1942, they were ordered to terrorize the Jewish population in Poland and

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The reactions of the French people varied between their work with the Germans and the heartache they felt towards the detained Jews. The French police who had been chosen to do the arrest work with the German authorities. There were only a few people who had chosen not to work with the authorities. They chose to help the captured

The same entry also states" innocent people -are thrown into prison to await their fate. If the saboteur can't be traced, the Gestapo simply puts about five hostages against the wall. Announcement of their deaths were frequently in the paper. " Killing innocent people was Nazis way of keeping the non-Jewish people in line.

The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. GESTAPO is short for Geheimstaatspolizei. geheim = secret. Staats = State. Polizei =

Cristina Vatulescu’s book, Police Aesthetics: Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times, deals with the aestheticization of politics and the intersection between Soviet secret police practices and artistic production. The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising esteemed cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Taking advantage of the partial opening of secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings—the personal files—as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments, and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between