World War Ii German Police Units (men-at-arms)
by Gordon Williamson /
2006 / English / EPUB
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The wartime Police were headed by Himmler as chief of the SS; and
throughout the occupied nations the regional SS commanders were
specifically termed 'Higher SS and Police Leaders'. Hitler's police
was not a single service, but a vast machinery which included many
special categories ranging from conventional criminal detectives,
and municipal and rural police to combat battalions sent to Russia,
and from border and customs police to special railway and waterway
departments, fire brigades and emergency engineer squads, and even
a colonial service for North Africa. The author explains the
origins, the complex organization and the particular duties of the
many different police branches that formed such a critical part of
the Nazi apparatus and ensured that control was maintained inside
Hitler's Fortress Europe. His painstaking research has unearthed
fascinating new information about the German police services and
their many different uniforms and insignia, which are recreated in
the meticulously detailed color artwork.
The wartime Police were headed by Himmler as chief of the SS; and
throughout the occupied nations the regional SS commanders were
specifically termed 'Higher SS and Police Leaders'. Hitler's police
was not a single service, but a vast machinery which included many
special categories ranging from conventional criminal detectives,
and municipal and rural police to combat battalions sent to Russia,
and from border and customs police to special railway and waterway
departments, fire brigades and emergency engineer squads, and even
a colonial service for North Africa. The author explains the
origins, the complex organization and the particular duties of the
many different police branches that formed such a critical part of
the Nazi apparatus and ensured that control was maintained inside
Hitler's Fortress Europe. His painstaking research has unearthed
fascinating new information about the German police services and
their many different uniforms and insignia, which are recreated in
the meticulously detailed color artwork.
