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font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Montua" class="extiw" title="de:Max Montua">de</a>]</span> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Walter_Schimana" title="Walter Schimana">Walter Schimana</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Military unit</div> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-label="Navbox" style="margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:1em;;padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Components</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_307" title="Police Battalion 307">Police Battalion 307</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_316" title="Police Battalion 316">Police Battalion 316</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_322" title="Police Battalion 322">Police Battalion 322</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-138-1091-06A,_Russland,_Mogilew,_j%C3%BCdische_Frauen_auf_Dorfstra%C3%9Fe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-138-1091-06A%2C_Russland%2C_Mogilew%2C_j%C3%BCdische_Frauen_auf_Dorfstra%C3%9Fe.jpg/300px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-138-1091-06A%2C_Russland%2C_Mogilew%2C_j%C3%BCdische_Frauen_auf_Dorfstra%C3%9Fe.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-138-1091-06A%2C_Russland%2C_Mogilew%2C_j%C3%BCdische_Frauen_auf_Dorfstra%C3%9Fe.jpg/450px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-138-1091-06A%2C_Russland%2C_Mogilew%2C_j%C3%BCdische_Frauen_auf_Dorfstra%C3%9Fe.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-138-1091-06A%2C_Russland%2C_Mogilew%2C_j%C3%BCdische_Frauen_auf_Dorfstra%C3%9Fe.jpg/600px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-138-1091-06A%2C_Russland%2C_Mogilew%2C_j%C3%BCdische_Frauen_auf_Dorfstra%C3%9Fe.jpg 2x" data-file-width="794" data-file-height="511" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht_Propaganda_Troops" title="Wehrmacht Propaganda Troops">Wehrmacht propaganda</a> photograph of Jewish women and children in <a href="/wiki/Mogilev" title="Mogilev">Mogilev</a>, July 1941. Six thousand Mogilev Jews were murdered by SS forces and Police Regiment Centre's <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_316" title="Police Battalion 316">Police Battalions 316</a> and <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_322" title="Police Battalion 322">322</a> in October 1941.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091642_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091642-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Police Regiment Centre</b> (<i>Polizei-Regiment Mitte</i>) was a formation of the <a href="/wiki/Order_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Order Police">Order Police</a> (uniformed police) during the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi era">Nazi era</a>. During <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>, it was subordinated to the <i><a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">Schutzstaffel</a></i> (SS) and deployed in German-occupied areas, specifically the <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre_Rear_Area" title="Army Group Centre Rear Area">Army Group Centre Rear Area</a>, of the Soviet Union. In mid-1942, its three constituent <a href="/wiki/Order_Police_battalions" title="Order Police battalions">battalions</a> were reassigned and the unit was re-designated as the <a href="/wiki/13th_SS_Police_Regiment" title="13th SS Police Regiment">13th Police Regiment</a>. </p><p>Alongside detachments from the <i><a href="/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" title="Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppen</a></i> and the <a href="/wiki/SS_Cavalry_Brigade" title="SS Cavalry Brigade">SS Cavalry Brigade</a>, it perpetrated <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust">mass murders</a> and was responsible for large-scale <a href="/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a> targeting civilian populations in the course of the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_security_warfare" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi security warfare">Nazi security warfare</a>. The scope of the regiment's operations was known to British intelligence since July 1941 but, for reasons of national security, information pertaining to their activities was not released until 1993. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background_and_formation">Background and formation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background and formation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Ordnungspolizei" title="Ordnungspolizei">Ordnungspolizei</a></div> <p>The German <a href="/wiki/Order_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Order Police">Order Police</a> (uniformed police) was a key instrument of the security apparatus of <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. In the prewar period, <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler" title="Heinrich Himmler">Heinrich Himmler</a>, the head of the <a href="/wiki/SS" class="mw-redirect" title="SS">SS</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Daluege" title="Kurt Daluege">Kurt Daluege</a>, chief of the Order Police, cooperated in transforming the police force of the <a href="/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">Weimar Republic</a> into militarised formations ready to serve the regime's aims of conquest and racial annihilation. The police units participated in the <a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Austria" class="mw-redirect" title="Annexation of Austria">annexation of Austria</a> and the <a href="/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia" class="mw-redirect" title="German occupation of Czechoslovakia">occupation of Czechoslovakia</a>. Police troops were first formed into battalion-sized formations for the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">invasion of Poland</a>, where they were deployed for security and policing purposes, also taking part in executions and mass deportations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShowalter2005xiii_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShowalter2005xiii-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Twenty-three <a href="/wiki/Order_Police_battalions" title="Order Police battalions">Order Police battalions</a> were slated to take part in the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, <a href="/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa" title="Operation Barbarossa">Operation Barbarossa</a>. Nine were attached to <a href="/wiki/Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="Security Division (Wehrmacht)">security divisions</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a>, three for each <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Rear_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Group Rear Area">Army Group Rear Areas</a>. Two battalions were assigned to support the <i><a href="/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" title="Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppen</a></i>, the mobile <a href="/wiki/Death_squads" class="mw-redirect" title="Death squads">death squads</a> of the SS, and the <a href="/wiki/Organisation_Todt" title="Organisation Todt">Organisation Todt</a>, the military construction group. Twelve were formed into regiments, three battalions each, and designated as Police Regiments Centre, <a href="/wiki/Police_Regiment_North" title="Police Regiment North">North</a>, <a href="/wiki/Police_Regiment_South" title="Police Regiment South">South</a>, and <a href="/wiki/11th_SS_Police_Regiment" title="11th SS Police Regiment">Special Purpose</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005163–164_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005163–164-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Police units assigned to the Wehrmacht security divisions and the <i>Einsatzgruppen</i> were motorised, while those formed into regiments were not. The goals of the <a href="/wiki/Order_Police_battalions" title="Order Police battalions">Order Police battalions</a> were to secure the rear by eliminating the remnants of the enemy forces, guarding the prisoners of war, and protecting the lines of communications and captured industrial facilities. Their instructions also included, as Daluege stated, the "combat of criminal elements, above all political elements".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005165_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005165-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Police Regiment Centre was formed in June 1941 by combining Police Battalions <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_307" title="Police Battalion 307">307</a>, <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_316" title="Police Battalion 316">316</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_322" title="Police Battalion 322">322</a>, each comprising about 550 men. These battalions were raised from recruits mobilised from the 1905–1915 year groups. They were led by career police professionals, steeped in the ideology of <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazism</a>, driven anti-semitism and anti-Bolshevism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann200515_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann200515-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The unit was placed under the command of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Montua&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Max Montua (page does not exist)">Max Montua</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Montua" class="extiw" title="de:Max Montua">de</a>]</span>, a career policeman. When it crossed the German-Soviet border, the regiment came under the control of <a href="/wiki/Erich_von_dem_Bach-Zelewski" title="Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski">Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Higher_SS_and_Police_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher SS and Police Leader">Higher SS and Police Leader</a> (HSS-PF) for <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre" title="Army Group Centre">Army Group Centre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199845–46_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199845–46-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operational_history">Operational history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Operational history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_killing_operations">Early killing operations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early killing operations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Himmler made a personal visit to the headquarters of the unit in <a href="/wiki/Belostok" class="mw-redirect" title="Belostok">Belostok</a> on 8 July where he met with <a href="/wiki/Max_von_Schenckendorff" title="Max von Schenckendorff">Max von Schenckendorff</a>, commander of <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre_Rear_Area" title="Army Group Centre Rear Area">Army Group Centre Rear Area</a>, Daluege, Montua, Bach-Zalewski, and the regiment's officers. He expressed concern that too few Jews had been rounded up and called on the officers to increase their efforts. It was likely that Himmler had ordered increased killings since several massacres followed immediately after.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005176_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005176-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The same evening, a company of Police Battalion 322 participated in the shooting of about 1,000 Jews under the direction of <i><a href="/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" title="Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppe B</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next day, 9 July, Police Battalion 307 participated in the massacre of 4–6,000 Jewish men, Russians and Belarusians in the vicinity of Brest-Litovsk (now <a href="/wiki/Brest,_Belarus" title="Brest, Belarus">Brest, Belarus</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArico2010408,_412–413_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArico2010408,_412–413-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The killing operation, with assistance by personnel of the Wehrmacht's <a href="/wiki/162nd_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="162nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">162nd Infantry Division</a>, lasted several days.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005176_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005176-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 10 July, Daluege addressed the members of the regiment arrayed in a parade formation, extolling them to "exterminate" Bolshevism as a "blessing for Germany".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann20052–3_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann20052–3-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 11 July, Montua passed a confidential order from Bach-Zalewski to the battalion commanders that Jews, who had been "convicted of looting", were to be shot; an execution took place the same day.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around this time, Police Battalions 316 and 322 rounded up approximately 3,000 Jewish men from Belostok and shot them in a nearby forest.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArico2010456–59_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArico2010456–59-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 17 July, the regiment murdered over 1,100 Jews in <a href="/wiki/Slonim" title="Slonim">Slonim</a>, with Bach-Zalewski reporting to Himmler on 18 July: "Yesterday's cleansing action in Slonim by Police Regiment Centre. 1,153 Jewish plunderers were shot".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPersico2002219_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPersico2002219-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 20 July, the unit's reports referred to executions of Jewish women and children.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By late August, Police Battalion 322 moved to <a href="/wiki/Minsk" title="Minsk">Minsk</a>, where, on 1 September, it conducted a killing operation together with the units of <i>Einsatzgruppe B</i>. The victims included 290 Jewish men and 40 Jewish women.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199850_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199850-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Escalation_of_violence">Escalation of violence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Escalation of violence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1154,_Russland,_erh%C3%A4ngte_M%C3%A4nner.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1154%2C_Russland%2C_erh%C3%A4ngte_M%C3%A4nner.jpg/240px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1154%2C_Russland%2C_erh%C3%A4ngte_M%C3%A4nner.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1154%2C_Russland%2C_erh%C3%A4ngte_M%C3%A4nner.jpg/360px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1154%2C_Russland%2C_erh%C3%A4ngte_M%C3%A4nner.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1154%2C_Russland%2C_erh%C3%A4ngte_M%C3%A4nner.jpg/480px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1154%2C_Russland%2C_erh%C3%A4ngte_M%C3%A4nner.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="549" /></a><figcaption>Victims hanged by the police troops in the Soviet Union, August/September 1941</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Mogilev_Conference" title="Mogilev Conference">Mogilev Conference</a></div> <p>In September 1941, the regiment participated in the <a href="/wiki/Mogilev_conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Mogilev conference">Mogilev conference</a>, organised by General <a href="/wiki/Max_von_Schenckendorff" title="Max von Schenckendorff">Max von Schenckendorff</a>, commander of the <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre_Rear_Area" title="Army Group Centre Rear Area">Army Group Centre Rear Area</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeorn201497_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeorn201497-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Montua had been in charge of the event's planning and logistics.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlood2006167_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlood2006167-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conference included three field exercises. On the second day, participants travelled to a nearby settlement where a company of Police Battalion 322, assisted by the troops of the SD, conducted a demonstration of how to surround and screen a village. According to the after-action report, "suspicious strangers" (<i>Ortsfremde</i>) or "partisans" could not be found. The screening of the population revealed fifty-one Jewish civilians, of whom thirty-two were shot.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeorn201410_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeorn201410-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 2 October 1941, Police Battalions 322 and 316, along with Bach-Zalewski's staff company and Ukrainian auxiliaries, rounded up 2,200 Jews in the <a href="/wiki/Mogilev_Ghetto" title="Mogilev Ghetto">Mogilev Ghetto</a>. Sixty-five were killed during the roundups, and another 550 executed the next day. Throughout the rest of the month, the battalion continued to execute Jews, communists, and alleged partisans in the vicinity of Mogilev. The commander of the unit received the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Cross" title="Iron Cross">Iron Cross</a>, 2nd class, following these operations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199866_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199866-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another killing operation later that month, by <i>Einsatzkommando</i> 8 and Police Battalions 316 and 322, brought the total number of victims in Mogilev to about 6,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091642_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091642-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 7–8 November, Police Battalion 316 participated in the murder of Jews in <a href="/wiki/Bobruisk" class="mw-redirect" title="Bobruisk">Bobruisk</a>. The inmates of the Bobruisk ghetto were rounded up and loaded into trucks. They were taken to the village of Kamenka where they were shot into pits dug for this purpose. About 5,281 people were killed by the personnel of the battalion and the <i>Einsatzkommando</i> 8.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091650_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091650-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_history">Later history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Later history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December, after the German defeat in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moscow" title="Battle of Moscow">Battle of Moscow</a>, the regiment was sent to the front lines to reinforce the German defenses, thus depriving Bach-Zalewski of manpower.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlood200661–62_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlood200661–62-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Police Battalion 307, for example, was deployed near <a href="/wiki/Kaluga" title="Kaluga">Kaluga</a> on 20 December and had been reduced to a combat strength of 60 men by March. The other two battalions were assigned to guard and security duties to the immediate rear of the front-line troops and were not heavily involved in combat.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArico2010410–11,_457,_484_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArico2010410–11,_457,_484-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regimental commander, Montua, was recalled to Germany to assume an SS and police training position<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlood200661–62_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlood200661–62-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">Colonel</a> of Police (<i>Oberst der Polizei</i>) <a href="/wiki/Walter_Schimana" title="Walter Schimana">Walter Schimana</a> on 1 December.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENixJerome2006265_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENixJerome2006265-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bach-Zalewski himself was temporarily relieved of command and sent to Germany for recuperation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlood200661–62_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlood200661–62-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around May–June 1942, the battalions were replaced by Police Battalions <a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Battalion_6&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Battalion 6 (page does not exist)">6</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Battalion_85&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Battalion 85 (page does not exist)">85</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Battalion_301&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Battalion 301 (page does not exist)">301</a>, which were redesignated as the regiment's first through third battalions, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEArico201084,_265,_387_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEArico201084,_265,_387-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment was redesignated in July as the <a href="/wiki/13th_SS_Police_Regiment" title="13th SS Police Regiment">13th Police Regiment</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETessinKannapin2000620_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETessinKannapin2000620-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Decrypts_by_British_intelligence">Decrypts by British intelligence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Decrypts by British intelligence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Progress reports on the murderous activities of the Police Regiment Center, the <i>Einsatzgruppen</i> detachment and the SS Cavalry Brigade were regularly forwarded by Bach-Zalewski. However, unbeknownst to him, the reports were being intercepted by <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a>, the British intelligence service, whose code breakers at <a href="/wiki/Bletchley_Park" title="Bletchley Park">Bletchley Park</a> had broken the German ciphers as part of <a href="/wiki/Ultra_(cryptography)" title="Ultra (cryptography)">Ultra</a>, the British signals intelligence program.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2004112–113_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2004112–113-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The head of MI6, <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Menzies" title="Stewart Menzies">Stewart Menzies</a>, communicated the decrypts directly to British Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>. The first decrypted message was the 18 July report on the mass murders by the regiment at Slonim. In late July and early August, similar reports were intercepted on a regular basis. Angered by the scope of the atrocities, Churchill delivered a speech over the radio on 24 August stating:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2004112–113_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2004112–113-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>Whole districts are being exterminated (...) Scores of thousands of executions are perpetrated by the German police troops upon the Soviet patriots defending their native soil. Since the Mongol invasion of Europe, there have never been methodical, merciless butchery on such a scale or approaching such a scale. We are in the presence of a crime without a name.</p></blockquote> <p>From 27 August, Bletchley Park delivered specially prepared daily intelligence reports on the activities of the police troops. By this point, the British intelligence had detailed information on the activities of both Bach-Zalewski's and <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Jeckeln" title="Friedrich Jeckeln">Friedrich Jeckeln</a>'s formations (with Jeckeln operating in <a href="/wiki/Army_Group_South_Rear_Area" title="Army Group South Rear Area">Army Group South Rear Area</a>). On 12 September, the German Police changed their cipher; the following day, the SS officials were instructed to stop transmitting the reports over the radio.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2004114–115_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2004114–115-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, the code breakers produced monthly reports detailing the crimes perpetrated by <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2004116–118_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2004116–118-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Police Battalions 307, 316, and 322 were reassigned to other regiments and continued to engage in security warfare (<i><a href="/wiki/Bandenbek%C3%A4mpfung" title="Bandenbekämpfung">Bandenbekämpfung</a></i>, or "bandit-fighting") and genocide. Battalion 307 was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/23rd_SS_Police_Regiment" title="23rd SS Police Regiment">23rd Police Regiment</a> and took part in the punitive <a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Sumpffieber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Operation Sumpffieber (page does not exist)">Operation Sumpffieber</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unternehmen_Sumpffieber" class="extiw" title="de:Unternehmen Sumpffieber">de</a>]</span> in Belarus. Battalions 316 and 322 were sent to <a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>, with Battalion 316 then assigned to the <a href="/wiki/4th_SS_Police_Regiment" title="4th SS Police Regiment">4th Police Regiment</a> in France and Battalion 322 joining the <a href="/wiki/5th_SS_Police_Regiment" title="5th SS Police Regiment">5th Police Regiment</a>, still in Slovenia.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEUSHMM20085–6_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEUSHMM20085–6-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment's former commander, Montua, committed suicide in April 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECurilla2010273,_336,_535,_860_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECurilla2010273,_336,_535,_860-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Order Police as a whole had not been declared a criminal organisation by the Allies, unlike the SS, and its members were able to reintegrate into the German society largely unmolested, with many returning to police careers in Austria and <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005231_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005231-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Personnel of Police Battalion 322 were investigated by the West German authorities in the 1960s. One of the battalion's members stated:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann200517–18_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann200517–18-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>The expression 'combat of the partisans' is strictly speaking a complete misnomer. We did not have a single battle with partisans after we left Mogilev. ... The fact of the matter [was] that those found without identity cards sufficed for their arrest and executions".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann200517–18_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann200517–18-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>For reasons of national security, the Ultra program remained classified after the war and the decrypts pertaining to the activities of security and police troops during the war were not shared with Britain's allies. Consequently, they were not used during the <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_trials" title="Nuremberg trials">Nuremberg trials</a> or subsequent investigations of German war crimes and crimes against humanity. The decrypts were finally released in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2004117–119_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2004117–119-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091642-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091642_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMegargee20091642_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMegargee2009">Megargee 2009</a>, p. 1642.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEShowalter2005xiii-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShowalter2005xiii_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFShowalter2005">Showalter 2005</a>, p. xiii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005163–164-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005163–164_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWestermann2005">Westermann 2005</a>, pp. 163–164.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005165-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005165_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWestermann2005">Westermann 2005</a>, p. 165.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann200515-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann200515_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWestermann2005">Westermann 2005</a>, p. 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199845–46-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199845–46_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBreitman1998">Breitman 1998</a>, pp. 45–46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005176-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005176_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWestermann2005176_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWestermann2005">Westermann 2005</a>, p. 176.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199847–48_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a 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class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPersico2002">Persico 2002</a>, p. 219.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBreitman199850-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBreitman199850_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBreitman1998">Breitman 1998</a>, p. 50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeorn201497-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeorn201497_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBeorn2014">Beorn 2014</a>, p. 97.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlood2006167-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBlood2006167_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBlood2006">Blood 2006</a>, p. 167.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeorn201410-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeorn201410_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBeorn2014">Beorn 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Osnabrück: Biblio-Verlag. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7648-2471-9" title="Special:BookSources/3-7648-2471-9"><bdi>3-7648-2471-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Waffen-SS+und+Ordnungspolizei+im+Kriegseinsatz+1939+-+1945%3A+ein+%C3%9Cberblick+anhand+der+Feldpost%C3%BCbersicht&rft.place=Osnabr%C3%BCck&rft.pub=Biblio-Verlag&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=3-7648-2471-9&rft.aulast=Tessin&rft.aufirst=Georg&rft.au=Kannapin%2C+Norbert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolice+Regiment+Centre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUSHMM2008" class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/RG-48.004M_01_fnd_en.pdf">"Selected Records from the Military Historical Institute Archives, Prague, 1941-1944"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum" title="United States Holocaust Memorial Museum">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum</a>. 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 January</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Selected+Records+from+the+Military+Historical+Institute+Archives%2C+Prague%2C+1941-1944&rft.pub=United+States+Holocaust+Memorial+Museum&rft.date=2008&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.ushmm.org%2Ffindingaids%2FRG-48.004M_01_fnd_en.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolice+Regiment+Centre" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWestermann2005" class="citation book cs1">Westermann, Edward B. (2005). <i>Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East</i>. Kansas City: <a href="/wiki/University_Press_of_Kansas" title="University Press of Kansas">University Press of Kansas</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7006-1724-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7006-1724-1"><bdi>978-0-7006-1724-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hitler%27s+Police+Battalions%3A+Enforcing+Racial+War+in+the+East&rft.place=Kansas+City&rft.pub=University+Press+of+Kansas&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0-7006-1724-1&rft.aulast=Westermann&rft.aufirst=Edward+B.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolice+Regiment+Centre" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Centre&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWette2007" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Wolfram_Wette" title="Wolfram Wette">Wette, Wolfram</a> (2007). <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wehrmacht:_History,_Myth,_Reality" title="The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality">The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality</a></i>. Cambridge, Mass.: <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780674025776" title="Special:BookSources/9780674025776"><bdi>9780674025776</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Wehrmacht%3A+History%2C+Myth%2C+Reality&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+Mass.&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=9780674025776&rft.aulast=Wette&rft.aufirst=Wolfram&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolice+Regiment+Centre" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/OKH" class="mw-redirect" title="OKH">Army High Command</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kommandostab_Reichsf%C3%BChrer-SS" title="Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS">Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Group_North" title="Army Group North">Army Group North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Group_Centre" title="Army Group Centre">Army Group Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Group_South" title="Army Group South">Army Group South</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Commanders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Friderici" title="Erich Friderici">Erich Friderici</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_K%C3%BCbler" title="Ludwig Kübler">Ludwig Kübler</a></li> <li><a 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class="mw-redirect" title="201st Security Division (Wehrmacht)">201st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/203rd_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="203rd Security Division (Wehrmacht)">203rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/207th_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="207th Security Division (Wehrmacht)">207th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/213th_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="213th Security Division (Wehrmacht)">213th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/221st_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="221st Security Division (Wehrmacht)">221st</a> (<a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_309" title="Police Battalion 309">Police Battalion (PB) 309</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/281st_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="281st Security Division (Wehrmacht)">281st</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/285th_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="285th Security Division (Wehrmacht)">285th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_286th_Security_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="German 286th Security Division">286th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/403rd_Security_Division" title="403rd Security Division">403rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/444th_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="444th Security Division (Wehrmacht)">444th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/454th_Security_Division_(Wehrmacht)" title="454th Security Division (Wehrmacht)">454th</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/707th_Infantry_Division_(Wehrmacht)" class="mw-redirect" title="707th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)">707th</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Higher_SS_and_Police_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Higher SS and Police Leader">HSS-PF</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erich_von_dem_Bach-Zelewski" title="Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski">Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Jeckeln" title="Friedrich Jeckeln">Friedrich Jeckeln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans-Adolf_Pr%C3%BCtzmann" title="Hans-Adolf Prützmann">Hans-Adolf Prützmann</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Order_Police_battalions" title="Order Police battalions">Order Police</a> and <a href="/wiki/Schutzstaffel" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a> Detachments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Einsatzgruppen" title="Einsatzgruppen">Einsatzgruppen</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Battalion_9&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Battalion 9 (page does not exist)">PB 9</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_Regiment_North" title="Police Regiment North">Police Regiment North</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Police Regiment Centre</a> (<a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_307" title="Police Battalion 307">PB 307</a>, <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_316" title="Police Battalion 316">PB 316</a>, <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_322" title="Police Battalion 322">PB 322</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_Regiment_South" title="Police Regiment South">Police Regiment South</a> (<a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_45" title="Police Battalion 45">PB 45</a>, <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_303" title="Police Battalion 303">PB 303</a>, <a href="/wiki/Police_Battalion_314" title="Police Battalion 314">PB 314</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Regiment_Special_Purpose&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Regiment Special Purpose (page does not exist)">Police Regiment Special Purpose</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Police_Battalion_304&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Police Battalion 304 (page does not exist)">PB 304</a>, <a 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Wehrmacht">Major crimes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babi_Yar" title="Babi Yar">Babi Yar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamianets-Podilskyi_massacre" title="Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre">Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_atrocities_committed_against_Soviet_prisoners_of_war" title="German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war">Persecution of Soviet prisoners of war</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">War crimes trials</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/High_Command_Trial" title="High Command Trial">High Command Trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharkov_Trial" title="Kharkov Trial">Kharkov Trial</a></li> <li><a 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