Authors: Christopher R. Browning
Hamburg, xvii, xx, xxi, 67, 147
Operation Reinhard, 50, 52, 54
Opole, 150
Oppeln, 28, 38
Oradour, 160
Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo), xvi, xviii, xxi, 1, 3, 51-52, 56, 105, 111, 113, 119, 122, 146, 164-65, 168-69
Battalion 9, 9
Battalion 11, 18-24
Battalion 45, 16, 18
Battalion 61, 41
Battalion 74, 29
Battalion 105, 91
Battalion 133, 31, 36, 132
Battalion 303, 16
Battalion 304, 16-17
Battalion 306, 122
Battalion 309, 11-12
Battalion 314, 16-18
Battalion 316, 12-14
Battalion 320, 16-17
Battalion 322, 12-16
guarding deportation trains, 26-37
history of, 4-8
indoctrination of, 176-84
in Russia, 9-26
reserve battalions of, 6, 42, 169
reservists in, 5, 164, 177, 179, 189
Ordnungsdienst.
See
Jewish police
Ordnungspolizei.
See
Order Police
Ostmann,* Peter, 108, 170
Pacific War, 159-60
Pannwitz, Gut, 125
Parczew, 78, 88-91, 95, 104-105, 107, 110, 121, 123-24, 133, 179
Peters,* Oscar, 47, 98-99, 115, 117, 143, 153
Pfeiffer,* Friedrich, 108
Pflugbeil, General, 12
Piaski, 52, 54, 90, 133, 136
Pinsk, 24
Piszczac, 78
Pohl, Helmut, 28, 51
Poland, xv-xvii, 1, 3, 6, 9-10, 15, 27, 38-41, 44, 49, 53-55, 76, 81, 84, 94, 99-103, 122, 124, 126-27, 139, 144, 148, 152-53, 155-58, 164, 174, 183
Poles:
shot by German police, 101-102, 126, 144, 148-50, 157
Polish informers, 125-26, 155-56
Polish-Jewish relations, 155-58
Polish police, 7, 51, 99, 109, 115
Polish partisan resistance, 2, 100, 115, 123-24, 126, 129, 135, 143, 148
Police army (Armee der Landespolizei), 4
Police Regiment Center, 13, 15
Police Regiment South, 16-18
Police Regiment 22, 137
Police Regiment 24, 31-32
Police Regiment 25, 137
Poltava, 18
Poniatowa, 137, 139-42, 163
Posen:
speech of Himmler, 74-75
see also
Poznań
Poznań (Posen), 39-40, 44, 119, 148
Prague, 26-27
Probst,* Bruno, 40-41, 43, 148, 150, 156-57
Protectorate, 6, 53
Prutzmann,* Hans, 112
Puławy, 53, 114-15, 117-19, 125, 141, 148, 154
county of, 78, 114-15
Radom, 28, 89
district of, 7, 95-96
Radzyń, 88, 90-93, 98, 100-103, 106, 109-10, 121, 148
county of, 78, 89-91, 105, 106, 115, 134
Rawa Ruska, 132
Reich Security Main Office, 163
Rendsburg, 45
Reserve Police Battalion 101, xvi-xxi, 1-2, 8, 37, 53-54, 88, 94-97, 105-107, 109, 111, 120-21, 127, 131-34, 137-40, 142, 144, 159-60, 162-63, 165, 168-71, 174, 176, 178-79, 181-84, 188-89
composition of, xvii, 1, 38, 41, 44-48, 164
deportations from Hamburg by, 42-44
execution of Poles by, 40, 101-02, 126, 144, 148-50, 157
First Company of, 46, 55-57, 59-65, 68-69, 76, 89, 91-93, 98-100, 102, 107, 109-11, 138
First Platoon, 56
first duty in Poland, 38
guarding the Łódź
ghetto, 41
interrogations and testimonies of men of, xvii-xviii, xx, 67-68, 72, 144-47, 152, 174
and the “Jew hunt,” 123-32, 142, 163, 168, 188
at Józefów, 55-77
non-commissioned officers of, 40, 47, 62, 80-84, 102, 119, 128-29, 135, 144, 161, 168, 170
party and SS membership in, xvii, 45-48, 144, 151, 164
postwar police careers of men of, 144
resettlement of Poles by, 39-41, 135
Second Company of, 45-46, 56-57, 63-64, 69, 89, 105, 107, 134-35
First Platoon, 63-64, 78-79, 84, 105
at Łomazy, 78-87, 99
Second Platoon, 65, 78-79, 84, 105, 108, 154
Third Platoon, 56, 63, 65-66, 78-79, 89-91, 107, 110, 123
Third Company of, 46, 57, 63, 114-15, 123, 141, 156
First Platoon, 91, 98, 115, 117, 150
Second Platoon, 114, 130
Third Platoon, 55, 57, 59, 63, 114, 118
trial of, 145
Resettlement: of Gypsies, 39
of Jews,
See
Deportation of Jews
of Poles, 39-41, 135
Retzlaff, General, 12
Riebel, Lieutenant, 15, 16
Riga, 27, 42-44
Rohrbaugh,* Arthur, 130
Rosenberg, Alfred, 178
Russia, xv, 9-11, 18, 27, 39, 44, 52, 183
Russian prisoners-of-war, 77, 123-24
SA, 46, 151
St. Petersburg.
See
Leningrad Salitter, Paul, 27, 43-44
Scheer,* Hans, 47, 63-65, 79, 84, 135
Schepetovka, 18
Schimke,* Otto-Julius, 57, 67, 129
Schleswig-Holstein, 45
Schoenfelder,* Dr., 60
Schulze, Obersturmführer, 35
Schutzpolizei (Schupo), 4, 7, 30-31, 35, 46, 51
Schutzstaffel.
See
SS
SD.
See
Security Service
Secret State Police.
See
Gestapo
Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or Sipo), 4, 7, 9-10, 24, 26-27, 31-34, 36, 40, 42, 51, 137
Radzyń branch office (Aussenstelle), 90-91, 93-95, 106, 107-109, 111-13, 134, 188
Security Service (SD), 9, 40, 83, 139-40
Selbstschutz, 97
Sereny, Gitta, 163
Serokomla, 97-100, 102, 104, 110, 121, 163
Siam-Burma railroad, 161
Sicherheitspolizei.
See
Security Police
Siedlce, 144
Silesia, 38, 50
Skole, 31
Slavuta, 16
Slovakia, 27, 53
Slutsk, 19-23
Smolevichi, 19
Śniatyn, 32-33
Sobibór, 27-30, 50, 52-53, 79, 95, 115, 131, 136-37
Sonderdienst, 51, 98, 109
Sonderkommandos, 187
Soviet Union.
See
Russia
Sperlich,* Alfred, 125
Sporrenberg, Jacob, 137, 139
SS (Schutzstaffel), xvii, 4, 7-10, 25, 40, 43, 45-47, 51, 80, 83-84, 87, 89-90, 107, 112-13, 115, 117, 134-35, 137, 141, 144, 151, 154, 164-67, 177-81, 183, 187
SSPF (SS [Schutzstaffel] and Police Leader), 8, 49, 51, 54, 137, 139
Stalin, Josef, 10
Stalingrad, xvi
Stanford prison experiment, 167-68
Stangl, Franz, 29, 95, 163
Stanislawow, 32, 34
Staub, Erwin, 167
Steiner, John, 166-67
Steinmetz,* Heinrich, 56, 63, 65, 67-68, 74, 89-90, 107, 110, 123-24, 135
Streibel, Karl, 52
Streim, Alfred, xxi
Stryj, 31
Stuttgart, xvi, 144
Talcyn, 100-104, 144, 148-49, 163
Tarnogród, 54
Theresienstadt, 27
Third Reich, xix, 4, 39, 42, 143, 173, 177;
see also
Germany; Nazi Party
Trapp, Wilhelm, xx, 2, 45-46, 55, 57-63, 69-73, 76-77, 86-87, 89, 92, 100-103, 110-11, 113, 119-20, 122, 124, 130, 138, 143-44, 148-50, 153, 164, 171, 174, 188
Trawniki, 28, 52, 77, 79-80, 87, 104, 134-35, 137, 139
Treblinka, 50, 53, 77, 88-91, 95-96, 104, 106-107, 109, 111, 121, 134-37, 142, 163
Trials of Nazi crimes, xvi-xvii, 14, 17, 24, 144-46, 170
Tuczna, 78
Turobin, 54
Ukraine, 18
Ulanow, 54
Versailles Treaty, 4
Vienna, 26-30, 53
Vietnam, 160
Vinnitsa, 18
Volksdeutsche.
See
Ethnic Germans
Waffen-SS, 9, 24, 135, 137
Wandolin, 114
Warsaw, 12, 43, 53, 88-89, 94-96, 105, 131
district of, 7, 95, 122, 137
ghetto of, xvi, 41, 131, 136-37 Warthegau, 39, 44, 50
Weiss, Major, 11-12
Westermann, Lieutenant, 36
White Russians, 20-23
Wilhelm, Hans-Heinrich, 163
Wilhelmshaven, 45
Wippern, Georg, 51
Wirth, Christian, 51, 95
Wisznice, 78-79
Włodawa, 133, 136
Wohlauf, Julius, xx, 46, 56, 61-63, 65, 69, 91-93, 98-100, 110, 144, 165, 178
Wohlauf, Vera, 91-93, 110
Wohyn, 105
Wysokie, 54
Zakrzów, 54-55, 57
Zamość, 52-54, 135
Zaplatov, 32
Zentrale Stelle der Landes-justizverwaltungen.
See
Central Agency for
the State Administrations of Justice
Zimbardo, Philip, 167-68
Zimmermann,* Walter, 28
Zitzmann, Captain, 33
Zorn,* August, 66
I am extremely grateful to Theodore Raphael, Michael Marrus, Saul Friedländer, Lawrence Langer, Aaron Asher, E. Wayne Carp, and Mark Jensen for their many thoughtful suggestions to improve the manuscript. The shortcomings that remain are, of course, my own responsibility.
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