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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Nazi Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The inception of the Gestapo, police acting outside of any civil authority, highlighted the Nazis' intention to use powerful, coercive means to directly control German society.
After the war, surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial by the Allied tribunal at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity.
Karl Otto Koch — SS Colonel and commandant of the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Majdanek
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Nazi_Germany   (3781 words)

  
 Gendercide Watch: The Jewish Holocaust
SS [Schutz-Staffel, "Defense Echelon"] noncoms pushed the heads of some of their charges into overflowing latrine buckets until they suffocated.
The murderous activities of Police Battalion 101, studied by both Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen, included a massacre of 1,500 Jews at the Polish village of Józefów on July 13, 1942, in which the battalion was "ordered to round up...
The relationship between the regular army and the SS or paramilitary killers was intimate and mutually supportive -- as in the Serbs' genocidal and gendercidal campaigns in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, but on a massively greater scale.
www.gendercide.org /case_jews.html   (3940 words)

  
 A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Perpetrators
The SS (Schutzstaffelnor guard squadrons), the SA (Sturmabteilungor storm troops), the SD (Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS or security service of the SS), and the Gestapo (Geheime Staats Polizeior Secret State Police) were all Nazi instruments of terror.
Himmler was made chief of the German police as well as the head of the SS, able to act within the law as head of the police and outside the law as head of the SS.
The Gestapo was composed of professional police agents, unlike the SS or SA.
www.fcit.usf.edu /holocaust/people/perps.htm   (2575 words)

  
 The Police State
The Oxford Encyclopedia defines a police state as "(that) in which a national police organization, often secret, is under the direct control of an authoritarian government, whose political purposes it serves, sometimes to the extent of becoming a state within a state." The Nazi police state was to develop far beyond this definition.
Whilst the other branches of the police were employees of the State, members of the SD were employed by the Party, which paid their salaries.
The activities of the Einsatzgruppen were supplemented by the police battalions and reserve police battalions of the Ordnungspolizei.
www.deathcamps.org /reinhard/policestate.html   (1592 words)

  
 DEPORTATION AND RESETTLEMENT
The earliest known German document regarding any cooperation between SS authorities and civilian officials in the deportation of Jews in the framework of Operation Reinhard is a note written by Dr. Richard Turk, the head of the Department of Population Affairs and Welfare...
[Friedrich] Siebert, the chief of the SS department, in which the concluding sentence reads as follows: I ask you to be helpful to the SS and Police Leader of Lublin in his actions.
On March 7 I received a telephone call from the government [in Cracow], from Major Regger, in which I was strictly requested, in connection with the resettlement of the Jews from Mielec to the Lublin district, to reach an agreement with the SS and Police Leader, and it stressed the highest importance of this agreement....
www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/ghetto.html   (2878 words)

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