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Police Unions

After the seizure of power in late January 1933, the National Socialists immediately began, in the course of their "National Socialist revolution," to reorganize the police organization according to their ideas. A first step along this path was the destruction of the police unions.

The majority of the police organizations-and among them the Schrader Association in particular-had incurred the hatred of the National Socialists through their democratic attitude. By destroying their organizations, the Nazis deprived possible resistance efforts by republican-minded officials of their ground. At the same time, they used existing structures, such as the association newspapers, to spread their propaganda and to promote the synchronization of the police and their associations. For example, the declarations of admission to the newly created National Socialist "Kameradschaftsbund Deutscher Polizeibeamter e. V." were sent out as a supplement to the August issue of the Verbands-Zeitung, the Schrader association dissolved on July 29, 1933.

On July 17, Willi Luckner, who later became the federal leader of the Kameradschaftsbund, issued a decree that all police units had to be dissolved by August 31 in accordance with their statutes. Under strong pressure from the NSDAP, their members were transferred to the Kameradschaftsbund, officially formed on September 1, 1933. The Kameradschaftsbund set up its office at Lützowstrasse 73 in Berlin and was divided into individual regional associations, which in turn were subdivided into regional districts. The fact that the National Socialist police organization was by no means a representation of interests according to trade union standards is made clear by the statutes of the Kameradschaftsbund; Landesbund Preußen. Among other things, it stated

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The "cleanup" of the police

After the police unions had been eliminated in this way, the police force itself was also rebuilt according to the ideas of the National Socialists. In the beginning there was the political "cleansing" of the police. In Prussia, this was coordinated by Hermann Göring, who had been Minister of the Interior since January 30, 1933, and thus the supreme employer of all police officers in the country. He replaced the former head of department of the Prussian police Klausner, a man who was particularly close to the Republican police officers' associations, with Kurt Daluege

Daluege, leader of the Berlin SA and employed as an engineer in the Berlin garbage collection service until the Nazis seized power, immediately began removing politically unpopular officials from service. The Prussian police force was considered by the Nazis to be particularly permeated by "Marxist sentiment. If, for the time being, only the means specified in the Law on Police Officers were used, a legal basis was created on April 7, 1933, with the "Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service" to remove opposition and "non-Aryan" civil servants from the civil service.

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Police under National Socialism

The history of the police under National Socialism has received a good deal of attention in the historical sciences in recent years. At this point, only a few ideological and early organizational features will be presented.

1933: Hermann Göring inspects Berlin police officers / Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.

It would be fundamentally wrong to claim that the police were abused by the Nazi state and thus themselves were only victims of the terror regime. It is, however, recognizable that the systematic segregation of politically oppositional and active officials certainly massively intimidated those police officers who were neutral or even republican in attitude but not politically active. The organizational restructuring of the police force began shortly after the seizure of power.

How the NSDAP gains influence on the police

The police, as the state's instrument of power, played a decisive role in building the National Socialist terror regime. Its employer in Prussia, the largest and most important country in the Reich, has been Hermann Göring since January 30, 1933. He played a decisive role in bringing the police into line.

As one of his first official acts, he had all policemen checked for their political convictions, thus separating out who remained in office, who was transferred or retired. Those who want to stay have to submit to the new regime. More importantly, Göring ensures that members of the SA or the SS can be appointed auxiliary policemen. Completely legally, the NSDAP and its combat organizations are gaining important influence within the police force.

On February 17, 1933, the so-called "Schießerlass" (shooting decree) becomes the new tough law: From now on, the police are authorized to shoot at opponents of the Nazi regime.

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But the forces were unequally distributed. Immediately after taking office, the provisional Prussian Minister of the Interior, Hermann Göring, dismissed not only top political officials but also 14 police presidents and filled the posts with politically acceptable candidates. At the same time, he removed the political police department from its previous anchoring in the Prussian interior and police administration and made it independent as the Secret State Police. In the other German states, too, the political police were expanded as an instrument of terror. In a speech on March 3, 1933, Göring clearly stated: "My measures will not be soiled by any legal objections. My measures will not be offended by any bureaucracy. Here I have no justice to exercise, here I have only to destroy and exterminate, nothing more! […] I am not waging such a fight with police means. A bourgeois state may have done that. Certainly, I will use the means of the state and the police to the utmost, gentlemen Communists, so that you do not draw the wrong conclusions here, but the death struggle, in which I will put my fist into your neck, will be waged by those below, the Brown Shirts. In the future […] only those from the national forces will enter this state […].

On February 17, the KPD party headquarters in Berlin was occupied by the police and searched for alleged plans to overthrow the party. On the same day, Göring instructed the police to support the national propaganda with all their might, but to "oppose the activities of anti-state organizations with the strongest means" and, "if necessary, to make ruthless use of firearms". A few days earlier, several hundred SA men had attacked a Communist Red Aid event in Eisleben, Saxony, and caused a bloodbath. A total of 69 dead and hundreds of injured were officially counted in this election campaign.

Social Democratic and Communist newspapers that reported critically on these events were banned for several days. On February 23, Göring ordered the formation of 50,000 "auxiliary policemen", who were to be recruited exclusively from the SA, SS and Stahlhelm and armed with truncheons and pistols, in order to allegedly combat "increasing riots from the radical left, especially from the Communist side. Now tens of thousands of SA thugs were able to exercise their violent terror against the left as state police officers.