The Schutzpolizei (Schupo) is a branch of the Landespolizei, the state police of Germany. Schutzpolizei literally means security or protection police but is best translated as Uniformed Police. Landespolizei is a term used in the Federal Republic of Germany to denote the law enforcement services which patrol the German Bundesländer and is the approximite equivalent to the State police in the United States of America. ...
The Schutzpolizei has by far the largest number of personnel, is on duty 24 hours a day and has the broadest range of duties. On patrol duty, mainly in vehicles, they keep their respective area under surveillance. As in most other countries, the uniformed police in Germany are usually the first to arrive at the scene of an incident, whether it is a murder or traffic accident. They also take the initial action, even if the case is handed over to investigators of the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) later. Kriminalpolizei is the usual designation of the criminal investigation services in the police forces of Germany, Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. ...
These police officers are also responsible for promoting public safety, crime prevention, criminal prosecution and traffic control.
During the time of the Nazi regime the Schutzpolizei became a part of the Ordnungspolizei, an organ of the Nazi state. National Socialism redirects here. ... Flag of the Ordnungspolizei The Ordnungspolizei (OrPo) was the name for the regular German police force that existed in Nazi Germany between the years of 1936 and 1945. ...
It happened on the first day, when the SS and the Schutzpolizei came in, on the first night they went to the great synagogue, placed barrels of petrol inside and the whole synagogue collapsed.
Schutzpolizei men were seated in front and local militia men were standing in the rear.
The SS and Schutzpolizei would wait in the back and grab the Jew and throw him into the fire again so that the third section was soon liquidated...
Whilst the addressee is not explicit, the tenor of the report and the list of recommendations for future transports in the penultimate section suggest that it was written for the attention of the Gestapo, Düsseldorf, ie the organisation responsible for deporting the city’s Jews.
The rank and positon of the author, captain in the Schutzpolizei, is consistent with that of Transportführer.
Notwithstanding that the stated number of deportees- 992- is at variance with the 998 quoted from an analysis of Gestapo files, part of the preparatory research for the case brought against former Gestapo officers in Düsseldorf in the 1960s, f rom Holger Berschel, Bürokratie und Terror: das Judenreferat der Gestapo Düsseldorf, 1935-1945, Klartext, 2001, p.363.
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