Talk:Ordnungspolizei

message: The link from the article on the Landespolizei to the Schutzpolizei links to the Ordnungspolizei. Since this last body was an organ of the Nazi state and clearly the current Schupos have no connection to this there is a need to ceate a current article on the Schupos. Ozdaren 14:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: E Ohioenjoyer (talk) 17:03, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schutzpolizei 

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Do you've some sources? The police still ist green in Germany (It is changing to blue because of internationalisation) --Athalis 16:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grüne Polizei (Green Police) 

message: In 1936 Himmler was appointed "Chief of the German Police in the Ministry of the Interior" not simply "Chief of the German Police". This a crucial distinction, for the powers vested in Himmler's new office were exactly those previously exercised in police matters by the Ministry of the Interior under Wilhelm Frick. Himmler was wont to ommit the "in the Ministry of the Interior" in corespondence, but his powers remained the same, weather he liked it or not. There was never any intention to centralise operational control over the police, and Himmler was never authorised to issue orders to the uniformed police. The SS gained authority over the training academies and the power to determine service regulations. Command authority and power of appointment over the non-Gestapo police remained firmly and unchallengably in the hands of the so called "Bearers of Sovreignty", namely gauleiters kreisleiters and later sub-kreiseleiters. In the occupied territories it was exercised by kommisars or governors. Only in the absence of a civilian administration or in emergencies was the SS given control over police forces when a civilian administration was in place, with the sole exeption of von dem Bach Zelewski's anti-partisan command. When Germany occupied new territories the military often relinquished control to a putative civilian administration before that administration had materialised except on paper. The most extreme example being the formal ransfer of most of the occupied Soviet territories to a civilian administration in July, though this administration only came into being in October and in some areas November. The result was a power vaccume which the SS would fill with its HSSPFs and SSPFs chain of command. However once a fully rammified civilian administration was in place this chain of command was displaced by it. The SS did not always give up authority without a fight but ultimately it could not win. If we are to understand the regretable phenomenon of Nazism, then the myth of the small but mighty SS weilding great powers of coercion over other bodies, notably the police, must be done a way with. The SS makes a nice alibi for German mass criminality during the Nazi era but ultimately it is a false alibi.
Myths piled on myths - no mention of Christopher Browning or Unit 101, etc. This whole story of great masses of psycho Germans mass murdering people and leaving no evidence behind is getting tiresome. I have worked in a mental institution and psychos always leave evidence. Their ability to differentiate reality from dream is gone - out of this many police you would have a few psychos - even if they weren't all psychos - and they would have body parts, etc in their refrigerators, etc. 159.105.80.141 19:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a link to Further Reading and Browning's book. Mcrawley (talk) 05:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:   I have a problem, for the reasons stated above, with the infobox line "The Orpo was under the administration of the SS."  That's really, really misleading; as the anon commenter points out, the Orpo may in practice have been subject to SS-and-Police-Leaders' operational control, and was run by Himmler and Daluege who were also SS leaders as well as police officials.... but nonetheless, administratively the Orpo was never within the SS-Hauptamt structure; it remained an agency of the (State) Innernsministerium, not the (Party) SS.  It was not even in the never-never-land of the hybrid RSHA like the SiPo.  Solicitr (talk) 21:11, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I would agree, overall. The Orpo was under operational control or defacto control of the SS; this given the fact its leaders (of the Police overall and the Uniformed Police, specifically) were members of the SS. One could write: "The Orpo was under operational control of the SS". Kierzek (talk) 19:38, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I've altered it to read "The Orpo was under the administration of the Interior Ministry but headed by members of the SS"  I think that's a reasonably accurate statement. I've also tried to correct "became a headquarters branch of the SS," which was simply untrue.Solicitr (talk) 17:52, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The same old myhs yet again 

message: The caption on the picture of German policemen passing the broken windows of a Jewish shop in Berlin gives the date as 1933 but calls them "Orpo", which according to this article wasn't founded until 1936. I think something needs correction or elaboration, but I'm not sure what. —— Shakescene (talk) 09:38, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Now we have no fewer than three pictures with captions referring to years well before 1936, two of them explicitly purporting to describe Ordnungspolizei. Since it's been a month since my yet-to-be-answered first entry above, I may soon hide these pictures within    brackets until the anachronism is resolved. —— Shakescene (talk) 04:18, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: They might, at a push, by members of a police force that happened to have the name 'Ordnungspolizei' - Germany still maintains small forces called Ordnungsamt so it's not all together impossible. You might like to ask at a military WikiProject, I'm sure the uniforms will be a giveaway to them. ninety:one   23:14, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption date 

message: Daluege's pic gives him the rank of Oberstgruppenfuhrer, but of course that rank didn't exist in 1936, nor is he wearing its insignia in the photo.  Propose "Obergruppenfuhrer (later Oberstgruppenfuhrer) Karl Daluege etc." Solicitr (talk) 00:10, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. Or it can be written: "Shown here in 1936 as an Obergruppenfuhrer." Kierzek (talk) 00:57, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  But I wonder if we should swap this photo with the one on Daluege's bio page, which shows him in Orpo general's uniform. Solicitr (talk) 22:01, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the switch as he was first an SS officer, head of the Berlin SS and leader of "SS Group East" before later being appointed head of the Orpo. Kierzek (talk) 00:46, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

text: I agree, looks like some "non-regulation" or custom insignia to his uniform. Both to note he was of General rank and to note the SS. Kierzek (talk) 19:42, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: D'oh!  It's right there in the photo-file caption: (September 1933 zum General der preußischen Landespolizei ernannt).  Uniform of a general in the pre-Orpo Prussian Landespolizei.Solicitr (talk) 06:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. It ought to be noted in the Wiki page photo caption. Kierzek (talk) 14:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo caption: rank 

message: The infobox lists as superseding agencies:
*  Landespolizei (W.Germany)   Volkspolizei (E.Germany) 
This seems off -- I doubt that either of these agencies claims lineage to the Ordnungspolizei. Feedback? K.e.coffman (talk) 06:38, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Landespolizei sheepishly does to this day admit they are descended from Orpo.  Their uniform regulations of the 1960s, and many of the awards and badges, were taken from Orpo directives of the 1930s.  As for East Germany, I think their police pretty much copied the structure of the Orpo onto themselves, not even bothering to change some of the names of the internal offices. -O.R.Comms 13:13, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superseding agencies?  

message: I streamlined the infobox, with the following changes:
*Removed one of the flag images; I believe that one is sufficient. I also revised the caption.
*Streamlined ranks and details of the personnel included.
*Replaced the image with a more relevant photo of the two executives most associated with the force.
*Removed superseding agencies, per discussion above. There a section in the article Ordnungspolizei#Orpo_legacy, but it's uncited and no direct descendency is noted. Best leave it out of the infobox, IMO. 
Please let me know if there are any concerns. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:32, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: *Thanks for the improvements, K.e.coffman, but I do have a problem with the change of the lead photograph. The original photograph was quite OK in my opinion. – Instead, we have now two talking heads. But the article is about a major Nazi German formation, not about some coffee-table book discussion. Wouldn't you agree?  Poeticbent talk 00:55, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

text: *Well, than perhaps looking at the Schutzstaffel (SS) article Infobox (per above) would give us some insight. These were major formations, I can't stress this enough. Order Police had grown to 244,500 men by mid-1940. Let's find the way of signifying that fact. Poeticbent talk 18:21, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

text: BTW, I would be open to a collection of images in the infobox, similar to the SS article. K.e.coffman (talk) 17:45, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You gentlemen seem to have a good handle on this, so I leave it up to you guys; I do believe a collection of images, is a good idea. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 20:05, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

text: K.e.coffman (talk) 02:06, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

text: Poeticbent: Just do the best you can with the choices in getting them to piece together. Anyway to include the Polen, Krakau. Razzia von deutscher Ordnungspolizei, Kontrolle (Verhaftung?) von Juden, photo? I hate to leave that one out. We may have to move/put the vertical 1943, Minsk photo in a prominent place in the body of the article. What do you guys think? Kierzek (talk) 17:38, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be fine with 4 images (2X2) and putting the 1943 parade into the article, if the vertial image presents technical challenges. I think 4 in the infobox would be a good choice, as, beyond those we identified, the photos start getting repetitive. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:37, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

text: Something like this maybe ? Poeticbent talk 21:52, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks okay to me, in this rough layout. Kierzek (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edit 

message: The image in the previous version of the article was not that great either; it depicts a fairly non-descript group of ppl in uniform just standing about. The caption was "Kurt Daluege, chief of Ordnungspolizei (2nd from l.) with Adolf von Bomhard, Orpo Generalleutnant (3rd from l.) at the police academy at Rathenow, Havelland, in the autumn of 1940", which is not very informative. 
I picked Daluege and Himmler as they represent the fusing of the SS and police forces. The two men were the driving force behind the transformation of the "beat cop" force into the instrument in the war of conquest and annihilation. Perhaps adding a sourced caption to this effect would alleviate some of the concerns? 
I think the options here are rather limited as all we have are propaganda photographs. I'd be open to discussing any other images as potential choices. K.e.coffman (talk) 03:48, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: *Well, than perhaps looking at the Schutzstaffel (SS) article Infobox (per above) would give us some insight. These were major formations, I can't stress this enough. Order Police had grown to 244,500 men by mid-1940. Let's find the way of signifying that fact. Poeticbent talk 18:21, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

text: BTW, I would be open to a collection of images in the infobox, similar to the SS article. K.e.coffman (talk) 17:45, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You gentlemen seem to have a good handle on this, so I leave it up to you guys; I do believe a collection of images, is a good idea. Cheers, Kierzek (talk) 20:05, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: *Can you please propose images you consider significant for the new collage, similar to what I did (above), and maybe vote on the images already suggested. We need six (horizontal) photographs. Thanks, Poeticbent talk 05:05, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: K.e.coffman (talk) 02:06, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

text: Poeticbent: Just do the best you can with the choices in getting them to piece together. Anyway to include the Polen, Krakau. Razzia von deutscher Ordnungspolizei, Kontrolle (Verhaftung?) von Juden, photo? I hate to leave that one out. We may have to move/put the vertical 1943, Minsk photo in a prominent place in the body of the article. What do you guys think? Kierzek (talk) 17:38, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be fine with 4 images (2X2) and putting the 1943 parade into the article, if the vertial image presents technical challenges. I think 4 in the infobox would be a good choice, as, beyond those we identified, the photos start getting repetitive. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:37, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

text: Something like this maybe ? Poeticbent talk 21:52, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks okay to me, in this rough layout. Kierzek (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Image choices

message: Preserving here by providing this link. My rationale was: "c/e; wl; mv image for better placement; rm Bahnschutzpolizei as it's described as not being subordinated "to Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei, only the Deutsche Reichsbahn" & "unsourced OR / dubious" (about the Legacy section). --K.e.coffman (talk) 22:09, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  May 2018 edit  

message: Beobachtungsstellen or Orpo intercept stations were known to exist. These were short-range intercept stations that sometimes included a component for Direction Finding (DF). They had these units in Spandau, Cologne, Constanta, Vienna, Nuremberg, Oldenburg. They never increased in capability, or territory. They had long-range Direction Finding stations in Brest and Tilsit, after occupation. When they invaded Norway, stations were established in Oslo, Drontheim, with mobile units known as Operations Sections, each with 7 or 8 vans short range DF, that were based in Tromso, Drontheim, Oslo, Bergen and Kristiansand. The other occupied countries were covered as well. The document is at: HW-34-2]. They often operated in conjunction with the Funkabwehr, the counter intelligence agency.  scope_creep (talk) 11:02, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: They're performance was very poor, but they did exist in several countries, and they generated considerable friction between the OKW and Funkabwehr. scope_creep (talk) 11:19, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Beobachtungsstellen

message: Elements of Orpo were involved in the July 20 plot to kill Hitler with Berlin's Chief of Police Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff being executed for his participation - yet there's nothing about this in the article: this should be remedied. --82.181.143.171 (talk) 05:19, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  No info on participation in the July 20 plot 

message: Adding the Bergpolizei as cited in Gordan Williamson's book. Kecesi (talk) 19:42, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. WanderingMorpheme 01:59, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: My apologies, I meant add the Bergpolizei to the Sonderpolizei section as it's mentioned in Gordan Williamson's book on Third Reich German Policing Units. Kecesi (talk) 04:05, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2023