In their research Norbert Steinborn and Karin Schanzenbach — later published as a book titled "Die Hamburger Polizei nach 1945 — ein Neuanfang, der keiner war —" ("The Hamburg Police after 1945 — a new beginning that was not") — described the situation of the police force after the Second World War, the process of denazification, the development up to the North Sea flood of 1962 and the following incorporation of the police into the State Ministry of the Interior.