Auxiliary Police in Denmark
The auxiliary police in Denmark (in short: HIPO ) was one by the 19 September 1944 action Seagull and the Danish Deportation officers from the Intelligence Service of the Schalburg Corps emerged Danish police unit mainly in support of the Gestapo in the fight against the Danish resistance was used .
history
Since the Danish police did not act tough enough against the Danish resistance in the German opinion and Hitler feared that the majority of its members - as happened with the Paris police - could switch fronts, it was disbanded as part of the military action Möwe on September 19, 1944 . At the same time, the HIPO with its head Eric Victor Petersen was formed from the intelligence service of the Schalburg Corps . The headquarters were moved to the former police headquarters and the equipment of the disbanded Danish police was used. The number of staff rose to 700 by March 1945, whose activities mainly extended to Copenhagen and North Zealand .
Division 9c - known as the Lorenzen Group - carried out murders and attacks in the course of German counter-terror from December 1944 until the German surrender in May 1945 . On May 5, 1945, armed members of the group hid in a summer house near Asserbo, where they were fought down and arrested using the V3 armored car made by the Danish resistance fighters.
After the end of the war, about a dozen of the HIPO police officers were executed in the course of criminal prosecutions for collaboration and individual crimes .
literature
- Matthias Bath: Danebrog against swastika. Wachholz, 2011, ISBN 978-3-529-02817-5 .
- Erik Haaest: Hipofolk Lorenzen groups - Danske Terrorister i Nazitiden. Documentas 2007 (not viewed).
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Bath: Danebrog against swastika. P. 227 ff.
- ^ Matthias Bath: Danebrog against swastika. P. 236 f.
- ^ Danes in German service - Lorenzengruppe. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ^ Matthias Bath: Danebrog against swastika. P. 236 f.