Polish police in the General Government

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Member of the Blue Police

The Polish police in the General Government (Polish granatowa policja , Blue Police ) were police units set up by Germany, which were formed after December 17, 1939 from members of the pre-war police of Poland on the orders of the Governor General Hans Frank .

Since the German police forces in the Generalgouvernement were concerned with fighting the Polish resistance , the so-called Blue Police (name refers to the blue police uniforms ) was set up. Around 18,000 armed Polish police officers and an approximately equal number of German police officers were subordinated to the SS . Together they guarded the numerous ghettos , liquidated them in bloody actions, later took part in the hunt for the refugees, in raids to arrest forced laborers and in the deportations of Jewish Poles to German concentration camps . The Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski states that without the complicity of the “blue police” and the Polish criminal police, the murder of the Jews on this scale would not have been possible.

In the district of Galicia , there were no Polish police. There the police units were formed from Ukrainians . They wore German uniforms with Ukrainian trident coats of arms on their caps. It was not until the Ukrainian police officers defected en masse with weapons to the partisans that the German authorities tried to set up Polish police units in the Galicia district.

See also

source

  • Policja Polska w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie 1939–1945 , (Polish Police in the General Government 1939–1945) [in:] Przegląd Policyjny, 1999, issue 53–54.

Further literature

  • Klaus-Peter Friedrich Collaboration in a “Land without a Quisling”: Patterns of Cooperation with the Nazi German Occupation Regime in Poland during World War II - Slavic Review Vol. 64, no. 4 (Winter, 2005), pp. 711-746.
  • Hempel, Adam (1987). Policja granatowa v okupacyynym systemie administracyynym Generalnego Gubernatorstva: 1939–1945. Warszawa, Instytut Wydawniczy Związków Zawodowych. P. 83. (Polish)
  • Hempel, Adam (1990). Pogrobowcy klęski: rzecz o policji "granatowej" w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie 1939–1945. Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. P. 435. ISBN 8301092912 .
  • Itamar Levin, Rachel Neiman Walls Around: The Plunder of Warsaw Jewry During World War II and Its Aftermath. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003. (Eng.)
  • Encyclopedia of the Holocaust; Entry on: Blue Police , Macmillan Publishing Company, New York NY, 1990. ISBN 0028645278 .
  • Piotrowski, Tadeusz (1997). Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide .... McFarland & Company. pp. 108-110. ISBN 0-7864-0371-3 (English).
  • "Policja Polska Generalnego Gubernatorstwa". Encyklopedia Internetowa PWN. (2005). Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwa Naukowe.
  • Jan Grabowski: Well, posterunku. Udzial polskiej policji granatowej i kryminalnej w Zagladzie Zydów . Czarne, Warsaw 2020. 432 pp., ISBN 8380499867