SS and Police Units Implicated in War Crimes

[David Thompson]

SS and Police Units Implicated in War Crimes

As an aid to researchers, this is the fourth in a series of "stickys" which will group war crimes allegations by unit or administrative office. This "sticky" will deal with SS and Police units implicated in war crimes.

The JuNSV website lists West German war crimes trials by the defendants' unit or agency in German at:

http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/Dienstdeufr.htm

and in English [partial translations only] at:

http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/Dienstengfr.htm

The East German war crimes trials are organized the same way. They may be found at:

http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/ddr/ddrdienststfr.htm

This allows one to view the SS and Police units whose members were tried in postwar German courts for war crimes. Off to the side of the unit are the case numbers of the trials involving that unit. One only has to click on the case number to get the details on the case. For all German trials, here's the list of SS and Police units:

West German Trials
http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/brd/Dienstdeufr.htm

Einsatzkommandos und Sonderkommandos
EG A 843
EK Stapo und SD Tilsit 465, 509
EK1b 512, 526
EK2 686, 760, 820, 883
EK3 512
EK3a 192
EK5 560, 636, 693
EK6 606, 714
EK8 512, 519, 564, 567, 573, 624, 656, 702, 720, 727, 750
EK9 540, 627, 630, 666
EK10a 777, 791, 864
EK10b 769
EK11a 724
EK11b 807
EK12a 816
EK12b 816
EK13 583
EK16 628
SK4a 694, 703, 765, 805
SK4b 784
SK7a 588, 620, 643
SK 1005 551, 552, 601, 662
SK 1005A 701
SK 1005B 701
Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann in Budapest 716
Sonderkommando H. in Cannes 578

Polizei
Litauische Polizei Krottingen 465, 499
Polizeidirektion Memel 465
Polizeidirektion Würzburg 318
Polizeioberfeldarzt SS-Oberabschnitt Main 179
Polizeipräsident Duisburg 474
Polizeipräsident Nürnberg-Fürth 140, 179, 283, 363

Bahnschutzpolizei
Rzeszow 886

Gendarmerie
Arnum 067
Bad Neustadt 291
Biala Podlaska 804
Dolina 887
Gorlice 566
Hasselfelde 382
Herringen 296
Kasimierz 582
Kowel 638
Losice 868
Lubraniec 633
Mielau 755
Orsoy 311
Piaski 333
Podhajce 832
Schöneck 475
Sdolbunow 553, 592
Slonim 810
Srebnoje 871
Tarnogrod 844, 845
Tomaszow-Mazowiecki 908
Tyszowce 575
Ustinowka 915
Vilsbiburg 182
Warschau 875
Wieliczka 905
Wolbrom 797

Gestapo
(siehe auch Grenzpolizei, Sicherheitspolizei)
Norwegen 739
Allenstein 626
Augsburg 114
Berlin 754
Bielefeld 543
Bochum 400, 419, 438, 460
Brauweiler 189, 728
Danzig 319, 443
Darmstadt 611, 613
Dortmund 126, 312, 313, 314, 401
Dünaburg 266
Düsseldorf 142, 148
Effeld 259
Erkelenz 299, 326
Frankfurt/M. 207, 267
Giessen 261, 304
Hagen 323, 324, 406, 425
Hamburg 147
Heide 160
Hildesheim 303, 359
Innsbruck 442
Jesenice 891
Karlsruhe 309
Koblenz 538
Köln 189, 334, 362/1, 403
Lemberg 544
Lodz 557, 892
Lublin 790
Lützen-Lettgallen 266
München 404
Nürnberg-Fürth 083, 104, 140, 283
Offenbach 367
Oslo 808
Padua 771
Recklinghausen 257
Regensburg 418
Reval 266
Siegen 235
Stuttgart 059, 116, 245, 388, 615
Tilsit 444, 465, 485, 509, 521, 547
Warschau 586
Würzburg 138, 283, 291

Grenzpolizei
Dalheim 301
Delfzijl 859
Eydtkau 521, 547
Friedrichshafen 116, 423
Gorlice 688
Heydekrug 511, 554, 579
Hrubieszow 674
Jaslo 687, 780
Kolleschen 511
Krosno 796
Neu-Sandez 635
Niebüll/Südtondern 200
Przemysl 699, 867, 872
Sanok 799
Wlodawa 582

Hilfspolizei
Ingelheim 020
Leck 199
Lettische Hilfspolizei Riga ('Kommando Arajs') 856

Kreispolizei
Siwaschi 910
Lettische Kreispolizei Rositten 890

Kriminalpolizei
Berlin 126
Bottrop 256
Dortmund 124
Kassel 202
Minsk 298
Mülheim 353
Nürnberg-Fürth 140
Ostrowiec 292
Schweinfurt 412, 416/1
Tomaszow 514

Landwacht
Augustfehn 476
Jaroslawiec 672
Stiege 382

Ordnungspolizei
Warschau 875

Politische Polizei
Danzig 319
Dortmund 126
Köln 189
Nürnberg-Fürth 104

Polizeibataillone und -regimenter
Pol.Btl.13 760
Pol.Btl.21 789
Pol.Btl.61 396
Pol.Btl.91 558, 785
Pol.Btl.306 589, 787
Pol.Btl.307 764
Pol.Btl.309 664, 792, 840
Pol.Btl.314 663, 878
Pol.Btl.316 678
Pol.Btl.322 555
Pol.Res.Btl.11 546
Pol.Res.Komp.Köln 767
Pol.Rgt.15 776, 842
Pol.Rgt.17 898
Pol.Rgt.26 828
Pol.Rgt.IV ('Warschau') 558
Pol.Rgt.Süd (Nachrichtenabteilung 2) 838, 879
Res.Pol.Btl.45 759, 823
Res.Pol.Btl.69 730, 741
Res.Pol.Btl.101 (Pol.Rgt.25) 670, 770, 772

Reichssicherheitshauptamt
Amt VI 453
Berater für Judenangelegenheiten in Bukarest 876
Falschgeldunternehmen 'Bernhard' 854
Kriminaltechnisches Institut 542, 658
Referat IID3A 632
Referat IVA1 260
Referat IVb4 745, 753, 771
Schutzhaftreferat 707
Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann in Budapest 716
Sonderkommando H. in Cannes 578

Schutzpolizei
Ansbach 010, 029
Bielsk 718
Düsseldorf 125
Frankfurt/M. 194, 258
Graz 524
Grodsjanka 644
Iserlohn 131
Kassel 055, 132, 195, 229, 293
Kielce 706, 757
Mannheim 063
Memel 465, 499
Oberursel 106
Ostrowiec 433, 783
Ottmachau 489, 522
Roswaschew 861
Schwäbisch Gmünd 038
Siegburg 349
Stanislau 395
Stryj 395
Tschenstochau 477, 600, 621, 631, 668, 815
Zamosc 790

SD
Bad Rabka (SD-Schule) 689
Czortkow 440
Libau 760
Lublin 790
Opatow 848
Pinsk 787
Tilsit 465

Sicherheitspolizei
Frankreich 858
Italien 771
Niederlande 563, 645
Serbien 362
Aachen 110
Baranowicze 617
Belgrad 679, 700
Berditschew 490
Bialystok 487, 648
Bilgoray 846, 847
Brüssel 870
Budapest 716
Chalons-sur-Marne 904
Cholm 691
Czortkow 515, 541, 550, 597
Drohobycz 531
Dünaburg 708
Düsseldorf 385
Frankfurt/Oder 758
Freiburg/Brsg 402
Grodno 684
Hancewicze 617
Kassel 308
Kiel 677
Kielce 706, 865
Kiew 526, 560
Köln 732
Kolomea 657, 743
Krakau 667
Krakau 850
Lemberg 671
Lublin 826
Mielec 655
Minsk 552, 601
Radom 786
Radzyn 737
Riga 307, 843
Rzeszow 711, 749
Sokal 159
Stanislau 675, 788
Starachowice 768
Szczawnica 593
Tarnopol 634
Tarnow 710, 775, 814
Tomaszow 781
Uman 526, 560
Warschau 795, 821, 822
Wiesbaden 378
Wilejka 851
Wilna 192
Zakopane 593
Zamosc 790
Zawiercie 894
Zichenau-Schröttersburg 834, 836

(Höherer) SS- und Polizeiführer
HSSPF West in Düsseldorf 173, 325, 369, 389
Kampfgruppe Dietrich des HSSPF Russland Mitte 604, 644
SSPF Krakau 619, 762, 911
SSPF Lemberg 355
SSPF Lublin 812
SSPF Minsk 512
SSPF Warschau 875

Selbstschutz
Bezirk Fordon 681
Hörnersfeld 895
Konitz 237
Kreis Alexandrowo 539
Kreis Konitz 590
Kreis Tuchel 590
Kreis Warlubien 602
Kreis Zempelburg 590, 803
Lublin 899
Schmiedeberg 562
Schöneck 475
Thorn 709
Vandsburg 569
Wellendorf 581

Zollgrenzschutz
Moos 089
Skala 723

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East German Trials
http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/ddr/ddrdienststfr.htm

EINSATZKOMMANDOS
EKI/1 1043
EKII 1328
EK4b 1037, 1082
EK8 1044, 1049
EK10a 1024
EK12 1023

POLIZEI
siehe auch Wehrmacht - Heer: Feldgendarmerie und Geheime Feldpolizei

Ausländische Polizei
Lettische Sicherheitshilfspolizei Riga 1015
Rigaer Ordnungsdienst 1015

Deutsche Polizei
Polizei in Eisleben 1403
Polizei in Ermsleben 1344
Polizei in Gittersee 1641
Polizei in Gorenice 1127
Polizei in Lodz 2063
Polizei in Magdeburg 1296
Polizei in Oebisfelde 1304
Polizei in Olkusz 1127
Polizei in Polleben 1568
Polizei in Siegmar-Schönau 1603

16.mot. Polizeiabteilung 2050
2. Königsberger Pol.Rgt. 1092

Bahnpolizei Halle 2007
Bahnpolizei Warschau 1507

Feuerschutzpolizei Magdeburg 1481

Gendarmerie Altranstädt 2064
Gendarmerie Arnsdorf 2071
Gendarmerie Bad Wilsnack 1264
Gendarmerie Cranzahl 1595
Gendarmerie Einsatzkommando 'Stalino' 1136
Gendarmerie Falkenhof 1106
Gendarmerie Förderstedt 1128
Gendarmerie Frankfurt/Oder 1368
Gendarmerie Frohburg 1470
Gendarmerie Galizien (Ort unbekannt) 1224
Gendarmerie Gallwiese 1106
Gendarmerie Girbigsdorf 1525
Gendarmerie Gruszczyce 1058
Gendarmerie Kreis Forst 1172
Gendarmerie Langewiesen 1286
Gendarmerie Malkinia 1076
Gendarmerie Melzow 1164
Gendarmerie Mertendorf 1542
Gendarmerie Neusalza-Spremberg 1260
Gendarmerie Nowy Dwor 1058
Gendarmerie Przemyslany 1224
Gendarmerie Rakow 1702
Gendarmerie Rengersdorf 2022
Gendarmerie Schönberg 1479
Gendarmerie Schönfeld 1474
Gendarmerie Semmenstedt 1107
Gendarmerie Steinbach 1421
Gendarmerie Sucholowa 1058
Gendarmerie Tschechien 2058
Gendarmeriebtl. (mot.) 1 1041
Gendarmeriezug (mot.) 7 1041
Gendarmeriezug (mot.) 16 1016
Gendarmeriezug (mot.) 62 1041
Gendarmerie (Einheit unbekannt) 2056

Gestapo Belgrad 1163
Gestapo Beneschau 1042
Gestapo Breslau 1008, 1254
Gestapo Chrudim (Sonderkommando) 1042
Gestapo Dresden 1003, 1839, 2079
Gestapo Drohobycz 1039
Gestapo Frankfurt/Main 1328
Gestapo Kolin 1042
Gestapo Krakau 2079
Gestapo Lissa 1075
Gestapo Magdeburg 2013
Gestapo Mielec 1051
Gestapo Niedersachswerfen 1562
Gestapo Pardubice 2014
Gestapo Paris 2013
Gestapo Pionki (Dolmetscher) 2088
Gestapo Plauen 1512
Gestapo Potsdam 1163
Gestapo Prag 1100
Gestapo Rzeszow 1051
Gestapo Stalowa Wola 1051
Gestapo Stanislau 1026, 1031, 1039
Gestapo Stettin 1090
Gestapo Suhl 1208
Gestapo Thorn 1090
Gestapo Weimar 1323, 1337
Gestapo Zichenau-Schröttersburg 1014
Gestapo Zwickau 1512

Grenzpolizei Blachstädt 1043
Grenzpolizei Platerow 1035, 1038
Grenzpolizei Przemysl 1043
Grenzpolizei Siedlce 1035, 1038

Hilfspolizei Annaberg 1625
Hilfspolizei Döblitz 1778
Hilfspolizei Dresden 1220
Hilfspolizei Freyburg 1486
Hilfspolizei Grossbrüchter 1091
Hilfspolizei Güsten 1367
Hilfspolizei Janowiec 1053
Hilfspolizei Klein- und Grosswerther 1614
Hilfspolizei Lowitsch 2054
Hilfspolizei Osterwieck 1563
Hilfspolizei Prettin 1115
Hilfspolizei Preussisch Börnecke 1766
Hilfspolizei Reinhardtsgrimma 1370
Hilfspolizei Ummendorf 1441

Kripo Berlin 1354, 1646
Kripo Dresden 2018, 2079
Kripo Meissen 2075

Landwacht Ermsleben 1344
Landwacht Görsdorf 1433
Landwacht Gresse 1496
Landwacht Hesserode 1614
Landwacht Knippelsdorf 1147
Landwacht Melzow 1164
Landwacht Polleben 1568
Landwacht Schiass 1694
Landwacht Solpke 1802
Landwacht Teichdorf 1125
Landwacht Zinow 1202

Ortspolizei Hettstedt 1281
Ortspolizei Neustadt an der Dosse 1714

Pionierzug 2029

Pol.Btl. 1149
Pol.Btl. 2018
Pol.Btl. Berlin-Spandau 1379
Pol.Btl. in Mährisch Ostrau 1153
Pol.Btl.9 2031
Pol.Btl.22 1132
Pol.Btl.41 1004, 1005
Pol.Btl.44 1074
Pol.Btl.93 1536
Pol.Btl.304 1002, 1012, 1017, 1020, 1029
Pol.Btl.310 1006, 1007
Pol.Res.Wachbtl. Lodz 2074
Pol.Rgt.15 1006, 1007, 1036
Pol.Rgt.36 2060
Pol.Rgt.88 1534
Polizei-Einsatz-Reservekompanie Halle 1173

Res.Pol.Btl. 1136
Res.Pol.Btl.41 1005
Res.Pol.Btl.82 1013
Res.Pol.Btl.Kolin 1009, 1045

Reichssicherheitshauptamt 1163

Schupo 1135
Schupo Dresden 1839
Schupo Lodz 1159
Schupo Schwedt 1063
Schupo Warschau 2028
Schupo Wurzen 1084

SD Hohensalza 1032
SD Posen 1032
SD Rennes 1235
SD Einheit unbekannt 1101

Sipo Krakau 1043
Sipo Libau 1046
Sipo Shitomir 1090
Sipo Warschau 1049

SS-Pol.Rgt.2 1065
SS-Pol.Rgt.22 1005

Einheit unbekannt 2026

SELBSTSCHUTZ
Janowiec 1053
Klamry-Dolky 1062
Kulmisch Damerau 1047
Lomianki 1124
Ostrow Swiecki 1054
Radzyn-Wies 1048
Rehwalde 1121

[Marcus]

If you have any facts about warcrimes associated with SS & Polizei units (trails, accusations in books etc), please post that info in this thread along with a source.

But please, this is a thread to post facts only, if you want to discuss anything mentioned in this thread, please start a new one to discuss it, thanks.

/Marcus

[David Thompson]

Here is a list of German police battalions said to be involved in massacres of one thousand persons or more, taken from Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1996, pp. 271-73:

[David Thompson]

Here are some SS and police units implicated in war crimes trials held by the Netherlands. The arrangement of these trials is very similar to that used for the German trials. The Netherlands trials can be found on the JuNSV website at:

http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/NED/NL-Dienststfr.htm

Polizei [Police Agencies]

BdS Niederlande NL084, NL095, NL097, NL200
BdS Niederlande Abt.IV NL058, NL233
BdS Niederlande Abt.IVE NL234
BdS Niederlande Abt.V NL232
BdS Niederlande Abwehr NL068
BdS Niederlande Judenreferat NL159
Gestapo siehe Sicherheitspolizei
Grenzpolizei Delfzijl NL087, NL088, NL089, NL235
Grenzpolizei Pietersburen NL186
HSSPF Niederlande NL010
Kriminalpolizei siehe Sicherheitspolizei
Landwacht Nederland NL168
Ordnungspolizei NL110
Ordnungspolizei Bereichskommandeur Groningen-Friesland-Drente NL174
Ordnungspolizei Chef Zahlstelle NL019
Ordnungspolizei Groningen NL177
Schutzpolizei siehe Ordnungspolizei
SD Arnhem NL004
SD Zutphen NL004

Sicherheitspolizei [Security Police]

Almelo NL042, NL099, NL161, NL231
Amsterdam NL050, NL052, NL057, NL073, NL131, NL141, NL150, NL157, NL160, NL167, NL171, NL173, NL175, NL176, NL178, NL188, NL190, NL191, NL192, NL219
Amsterdam Wachzug NL117
Apeldoorn NL143, NL151, NL161
Arnhem NL026, NL115, NL146, NL172
Assen NL053, NL119, NL120, NL132, NL133, NL139, NL144, NL155
Baarn NL106, NL181, NL231
Breda NL063
Deventer NL032, NL033, NL034, NL075, NL084
Eindhoven NL144
Enschede NL076, NL078, NL152, NL153, NL183
Groningen NL102, NL103, NL108, NL109, NL123, NL129, NL148, NL149, NL210, NL214
Groningen Judenreferat NL134
Heerenveen NL206, NL207, NL209
's-Hertogenbosch NL036, NL039, NL041, NL166, NL202
Leeuwarden NL067, NL090, NL093, NL094, NL118, NL220
Maastricht NL038, NL170
Meppel NL124, NL125, NL137
Middelburg NL119, NL120
Rotterdam NL054, NL066, NL072, NL092, NL101, NL114, NL156, NL163
Steenwijk NL147, NL227
Terneuzen NL139, NL140
Utrecht NL035, NL050, NL061, NL079, NL128, NL130, NL226
Zutphen NL037
Zwolle NL027, NL082, NL121, NL122

V-Personen [Informers]

Sipo Judenreferat (V-Person) NL003
Sipo Judenreferat (V-Person) NL031
Werftpolizei Den Helder NL077

Zollgrenzschutz [Border Customs Police]

Dokkum NL055
Medemblik NL179
Sint Jan Steen NL014
Ort unbekannt NL069

Übrige
Deutsche Handelskammer Amsterdam NL080
Reichsbahn NL098
Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung Amsterdam NL199

[David Thompson]

Here are some posts and threads on this subject which have appeared in this section of the forum:

IMT Indictment of the SD and Gestapo
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=15607

IMT Defense of the SD
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=15723

IMT Defense of the Gestapo
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=15675

IMT Judgment on SD and Gestapo
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=15732

Einsatzgruppen

Mass Graves
http://forum.axishistory.com/phpBB2/vie ... hp?t=16440

Mass Graves (continuation)
http://forum.axishistory.com/phpBB2/vie ... hp?t=16688

and here are some outside links on the subject:

United States v. Otto Ohlendorf, et al., NMT vol. 4
http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/04/NMT04-F001.htm and
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/m ... index.html

The Einsatzgruppen
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/index.html

The Einsatzgruppen: The Einsatzgruppen and the Army
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/d ... macht.html

United States v. Kazys Ciurinskas
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/t ... nskas.html

Jaeger Report
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/jager.html

The Einsatzgruppen: Waffen-SS Report on the Killing of Jews in the Pripet Marshes
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/d ... fenss.html

[David Thompson]

From the JuNSV Dachau Trials (US Army courts in Germany 1945-1948) page at http://www1.jur.uva.nl/junsv/JuNSVEng/D ... asesfr.htm :

File Number: US005
Review Date: 470730
Case Number: 5-92 (US vs Erich Wandrey) 470715
Crime Category: War Crimes
Accused:
Wandrey, Erich - Death Sentence (R&R: Life Sentence)
Court: Military Commission, Salzburg 470708-470715
Country where the crime had been committed: Austria
Crime Location: Bleiburg
Crime Date: 441014
Victim: POW
Nationality: American
Office: SS, 13th. SS Polizei Regiment
Subject of the proceeding: Shooting of three captured American fliers, whose bomber plane had crashed close to the village of Bleiburg

[Marcus]

Thanks David, interesting as always. Just one question, what does "(R&R: Life Sentence)" mean?

/Marcus

[David Thompson]

"(R&R: Life Sentence)" means that the sentence of death originally passed on the accused at the military commission trial was modified to a term of life imprisonment. R&R is the US Army Judge Advocate's abbreviation for "Review and Recommendations." Back in 1945-1948, the Judge Advocate's staff reviewed all of the war crimes trials held by US military commissions. All war crimes sentences had to be approved by the area military commander, and the Judge Advocate's R&R was to assist the commander in confirming or modifying the sentences.

[Marcus]

Thanks David.

/Marcus

[David Thompson]

Table of Order Police Battalion Involvement in Killings
http://rodohforum.yuku.com/topic/6275/t ... lings.html

[David Thompson]

Several posts from yarik, containing atrocity photographs and not referencing specific units, were deleted by this moderator - DT.

yarik -- Please review the warning at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 9#p1319889

[bf109 emil]

David you wrote

This allows one to view the SS and Police units whose members were tried in postwar German courts for war crimes. Off to the side of the unit are the case numbers of the trials involving that unit. One only has to click on the case number to get the details on the case. For all German trials, here's the list of SS and Police units:

David can I ask about the units which you listed, and more so to clarify a question I have regarding the units you listed under the quote heading...
My Question is...Are the units you listed denote units where individuals have committed war crimes? or are these units themselves were to be found guilty of war crimes and thus any member whom served in the above mentioned units perhaps likewise deemed to be a war criminal?

Thanks
Jim Snowden (bf109 emil)

[Marcus]

David can I ask about the units which you listed, and more so to clarify a question I have regarding the units you listed under the quote heading...
My Question is...Are the units you listed denote units where individuals have committed war crimes? or are these units themselves were to be found guilty of war crimes and thus any member whom served in the above mentioned units perhaps likewise deemed to be a war criminal?

The list includes for example regular KriPo-units (responsible for solving regular crimes, see http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=9484) so the list includes unit where one or more member has been tried in German courts post-war.
In some cases the units were declared criminal (most SS units for example) but that does not mean all the members were declared criminal.

/Marcus

[bf109 emil]

thank you Marcus for this explanation

[Marcus]

A post about the book "Murderous Elite: A complete listing of all the war crimes Comitted by the Waffen SS" by James Pontolillo was split off into a new thread at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 9&t=163471

/Marcus