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	Volkspolizei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Volkspolizei, as well as fulfilling traditional police duties such as investigation and traffic control, also worked closely with the Stasi and had their own network of informants that would crosscheck information gathered by Stasi informants, and vice versa.
		When the army and the Volkspolizei erected the Berlin Wall in 1961, it was declared by the East German leadership that it would protect East Germany against the negative elements of Western society, and help on the way to a crime free "socialist paradise".
		The first major use of the Volkspolizei in a crisis situation was on June 17, 1953, When Workers in East Berlin rioted because of the raising of quotas without an increase in salary.
	volkspolizei.iqnaut.net (1398 words)

	John Chivers - Personal and Family Website
		The DVP was under the control of the Minister des Innern and the head of the DVP.
		Police laws effectively elevated members of the Volkspolizei to executives of state power and the evidence suggests that the police viewed itself as such.
		The police took on a new, democratic role in the prevention and combat of crime and the KI branch of the Volkspolizei, responsible for politically relevant police activity and cursed like the MfS, seemingly dissolved itself without the otherwise usual public supervision.
	www.johnchivers.com /Academic/BrandenburgPolice_Chapter1.htm (1917 words)

	Volkspolizei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Volkspolizei (German for "People's Police") was the national police of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), whose officers were commonly nicknamed VoPos.
		The SVAG approved the arming of community-level police forces on October 31, 1945.
		Ex "VoPo"s are often on the receiving end of condescension from former West German officers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Volkspolizei (1446 words)

	"Ulbricht's helpers": the role of Hitler's army generals in former East Germany
		It laid the foundations for preserving and continuing the spirit of German and Prussian martial traditions, their "tried-and-tested" principles of military drills and even the external appearance and behaviour patterns of German militarism.
		On October 1, 1948, as Chief of Staff of the Volkspolizei, and once again in the rank of a general, he became the second most important man in the construction of East Germany's military forces.
		The size of the Volkspolizei reserves grew rapidly, one year later achieving a strength of approximately 35,000 men, when the "Head office for training" (HVA) was established, which formed the basis for East Germany's future ground forces.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/apr2001/ss-a25_prn.shtml (2074 words)

	East German Police force: Volkspolizei - Armed Forces - German Archive: The Volkspolizei (German: People's Police) ...
		East German Police force: Volkspolizei - Armed Forces - German Archive: The Volkspolizei (German: People's Police) was the national police of East Germany, whose officers were commonly nicknamed VoPos.
		Though vastly different from Western police forces in most respects, the reasons Volkspolizei officers gave for joining the force were the same as any Western policemen: a desire to work with people, idealism, family tradition, belief in the system (though in this case the system in question differed) and the wish to serve one's country.
		When the army and the Volkspolizei erected the Berlin Wall in 1961, it was declared by the East German leadership that it would protect East Germany against the negative elements of Western society, and help on the way to a crime-free 'socialist paradise'.
	www.germannotes.com /archive/article.php?products_id=106&osCsid=3ff1d3d9fd0157586079ece6e2045eea (1064 words)

	Beyond Wursts: Renaissance in Eastern Germany - New York Times
		In Dresden, once such a picture of Baroque magnificence that art historians unblushingly compared it to Venice and Florence, the best meal in town was a watery, lackluster Hungarian goulash in a dreary, Lubyanka-like restaurant.
		To cheer things up, a quartet of Volkspolizei, or people's police, often stood along the walls, fingering their Uzis, lower lips protruding in loathing for the almost entirely foreign clientele.
		In East Berlin, which I visited several times in the 1970's and 80's, a search for a gastronomically satisfying lunch was a search for the imbiss, or snack bar, that sold the most distinguished currywurst -- a grilled or fried sausage, sprinkled with curry powder and slathered with paprika-spiked ketchup.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9A03E1DD1738F93AA15754C0A96E958260 (687 words)

	NVA
		In the GDR, the People's Police (Volkspolizei, or Vopo) had created paramilitary units in 1952.
		Its early roots were laid in 1952 in the founding of the NVA's predecessor, the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP) (barracked people's police).
		The NVA was a professional, volunteer army until the 24th January of 1962, when (Compulsory military service) conscription was introduced.
	nationalevolksarmee.homestead.com /NVA.html (2758 words)

	Deutsche Volkspolizei: Viele Informationen uber Deutsche Volkspolizei an panathonmestre.it (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ab 1952 wurde der Abschnittsbevollmächtigte in den Städten und Gemeinden nach sowjetischem Vorbild eingeführt.
		Die Volkspolizei gliederte sich in die Dienstzweige Schutzpolizei, Verkehrspolizei, Kriminalpolizei und Transportpolizei, wobei letztere für die Sicherung der Bahnhöfe und Anlagen der Deutschen Reichsbahn zuständig war.
		Die zur Volkspolizei gehörenden 'Kasernierten Einheiten des MdI' unterstanden übrigens, wie auch die Deutsche Grenzpolizei als Vorläufer der DDR-Grenztruppen, in den 1950er Jahren für ca.
	www.panathonmestre.it.cob-web.org:8888 /d/de/deutsche_volkspolizei.html (372 words)

	GDR ENSIGNS & FLAGS
		As a Soviet satellite, the DDR's foreign and domestic policies were largely dictated by the Soviet Union, and there was much popular unrest.
		Not surprisingly, therefore, the first armed force raised by the new state was the Deutsche Volkspolizei (German People's Police or DVP), responsible for both internal order and border control.
		Service flags for the DVP and the DVP Border Guard were introduced about 1950; they were fl-red-gold tricolors with a "police star" in the center containing a shield striped in the national colors.
	tmg110.tripod.com /gdr1.htm (460 words)

	German People's Police 1949-1990 (East Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Volkspolizei ensign on FOTW has a terminal date of 1973.
		FOTW shows a Volkspolizei service flag dated 1949-(?), fl-red-gold with a police star enclosing a fl-red-gold shield.
		Was it replaced by a new service flag not shown, or did the fringed standard illustrated replace it?
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de^ddrvp.html (354 words)

	Deutsche Volkspolizei - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Die Volkspolizei unterstand dem Minister des Innern der DDR (MdI), dessen Amtsbezeichnung nach 1963 gleichzeitig auch „Chef der Deutschen Volkspolizei“ lautete.
		Die Volkspolizei gliederte sich in die Dienstzweige Schutzpolizei, Verkehrspolizei, Wasserschutzpolizei, Kriminalpolizei und Transportpolizei, wobei letztere für die Sicherung der Bahnhöfe und Anlagen der Deutschen Reichsbahn zuständig war.
		Auch die Volkspolizei hat – wie das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit – mit inoffiziellen (kriminalpolizeilichen) Mitarbeitern (IKM), also mit Spitzeln, gearbeitet; zuständig für die Führung der IKM war das Arbeitsgebiet I (politische Polizei) der Kriminalpolizei, deren Mitarbeiter durch MfS-Offiziere geführt wurden.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Volkspolizei (553 words)

	Deutsche Volkspolizei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Op 1 juli 1945 werd de Deutsche Volkspolizei opgericht.
		De Vopo had ook zijn eigen feestdag, op 1 juli werd de dag van de Volkspolizei gevierd.
		Deze helpers waren de beheerders van het huisboek, in dat boek moesten bewoners aangeven wanneer ze bezoek kregen, wie het was en hoe lang ze bleven.
	members.home.nl /frankstoffer/deutsche_volkspolizei.htm (272 words)

	TIME.com: Troublous Berlin -- Apr. 9, 1951 -- Page 1
		One day last week four U.S. buses, bearing 73 tourists, including twelve children, were returning from their customary swing through the Soviet sector when they ran into a tense, but typical, Berlin situation.
		As the four U.S. buses slowly circled the Potsdamer Platz, the tense Volkspolizei were facing a scornful West Berlin crowd safe behind the border rail of the British sector.
		She called the incident "the most exciting adventure since Hopalong Cassidy." In all, the police fired 12 to 15 shots.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,814595,00.html (704 words)

	Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Die VPB gehörten nicht zu den Dienstzweigen der Deutsche Volkspolizei (DVP) und sind auch nicht aus der Kasernierten Volkspolizei (KVP) hervorgegangen.
		Die Volkspolizei hatte eigene, kleine Gruppen Spezialkampfkräfte, die soweit ich weiß, dezentral in fünf Bezirkshauptstädten der DDR disloziert waren (nicht zu verwechseln mit den Anti-Terror-Kräften des MfS!).
		VPB in der Volkspolizei eher mit der des Luftsturmregiments 40 (Fallschirmjäger)in der NVA vergleichen...
	www.kalkriese.de.cob-web.org:8888 /Kasernierte_Volkspolizei.html (3064 words)

	The People Had Forfeited the Confidence of the Government
		I was living in East Berlin then, I was 18 years old and had been politically educated in the GDR, in the Young Pioneers, the FDJ [Free German Youth], the Volkspolizei {People’s Police], the SED {Socialist Unity Party of Germany].
		In late summer of 1952 a campaign was carried on to strengthen the Volkspolizei, which was still very new.
		At that time it frequently happened, that the district authorities, the ABV, (the police who patrolled the streets and who had to take care of a particular district), on good terms with their precinct leader, took for themselves a part of the furniture.
	www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv9n2/june17.htm (7258 words)

	TIME.com: The Hill & the Hayfield -- Jul 7, 1952 -- Page 1
		With each of the former allies flanked by armed support from the nation they had fought in World War II (Volkspolizei on the East, German frontier guards on the West), the stage was set for a serious clash of arms.
		The crisis rose when a detachment of Red soldiers and Volkspolizei rounded up a locomotive, its driver and 40 West German laborers on the British side of the border near Helmstedt and locked them up in a train shed, on the grounds that they were trespassing on Soviet territory.
		Three bewildered anglers fishing in a border pond were also caught in the net.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,888716,00.html (680 words)

	ESPNsoccernet - Europe - A defeat of distinction
		Dynamo are not really a tradition-laden club in the usual sense of the term; the club was only formed under that name in 1953, in the wake of the restructuring of all sports in the GDR.
		In his third year in Dresden, and only three months after 'Volkspolizei' had been rechristened 'Dynamo', Schroeter scored a goal in the 88th minute that sent a game into extra time.
		It was the final for the GDR championship, and Dynamo went on to win 3-2.
	soccernet.espn.go.com /print?id=342380&type=story&cc=5739 (1256 words)

	THROUGH THE WALL TO EAST BERLIN - New York Times
		The first time you'll find yourself lost for the lack of adequate signs; you might get on a wrong, slow line.
		Here the East German police (Volkspolizei, or Vopos for short) can be notoriously dilatory, forcing visitors to wait as long as two hours in hot windowless spaces.
		Charlie, at another end of Friedrichstrasse, is, by contrast, always less crowded and quicker.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9E01EEDA1438F936A3575AC0A964948260 (811 words)

	kind of Capcord of DDR HATS - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During this time period, the all green (fl or blue or grey) color cap cords were worn by Unterführer.
		This was the regulation for Volkspolizei, Strafvollzug, Bereitschaftspolizei, Transportpolizei, Feuerwehr, and Grenzpolizei.
		so if i understan al EM of Volkspolizei, Strafvollzug, Bereitschaftspolizei, Transportpolizei, Feuerwehr, and Grenzpolizei had a plastic/leather cap cord...and the NCO had a cap cord green blue...fl etc...only army have plastic/leather cap cord for NCO..but hat for EM of "police force" is on wool or on gabardine?
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=107933 (898 words)

	Deutsche Volkspolizei Deutschen Berlin Fachschule (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gehe auf diese Seite zum Artikel oder zu den Forenlinks oder zu den Weblinks...
		Werbe Informationen zu Deutsche Volkspolizei, Fachschule Staatssicherheit Berlin sowie Deren.
		Dieser Artikel basiert auf dem Artikel Deutsche Volkspolizei aus der freien Enzyklopädie Wikipedia und steht unter der GNU Lizenz für freie Dokumente.
	www.lexipda.de.cob-web.org:8888 /infos/d/de/deutsche-volkspolizei.html (553 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Monika Maron
		Born in Berlin as Monika Iglarz in June 1941, she moved with her mother and aunt from West to East Berlin in 1951.
		The writer experienced a troubled relationship with her stepfather, Karl Maron, who served as head of the People’s Police (Volkspolizei) in the German Democratic Republic and as Minister of the Interior from 1955 to 1963.
		Monika Maron cooperated with the state security service (Staatssicherheit/Stasi) in the 1970s under the code name “Mitsu” by reporting on her conversations with West German journalists in exchange for a previously denied travel visa to the West, which she needed in order to do research for a book.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5699 (599 words)

	JCWS 5:2 \| "The Prelude to Nationwide Surveillance in East Germany: Stasi Operations and Threat Perceptions, 1945-1953" ...
		In a memorandum of 9 January 1954, SAPMO, IV 2/12/119 Bestand SED: ZK: Sicherheitsfragen, officials from the SED apparatus complained that the Volkspolizei were not politically and morally educated enough.
		The fact that certain Volkspolizei branches clearly received orders not to fire suggests the same was true for the MfS.
		Land Thuringia Volkspolizei office report on the events in Saalfeld through 19 August 1951, by König, head of Thuringian Volkspolizei, 19 August 1951, BA-P, DO 1/11/08, p.57.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~hpcws/bruce.htm (12846 words)

	Stadt Teterow engl - History
		From 1945 to 1948, the town hall housed a Soviet command headquarters.
		After that was disbanded, the town council moved back into the town hall until the administrative reform of 1952, as a result of which the town hall received a new function as the district office of the Volkspolizei, the East German police.
		Since February 1990, it has once again been the home of the municipal authority.
	www.teterow.de /en/1586.HTML (285 words)

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