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Order and annihilation National Socialism police

Source: Official Brochure German History Museum in Berlin

from 1 April to 31 July 2011, the German Historical Museum Berlin, DHM, debuts a temporary exhibition on the role of police in National Socialism.


Police was a key instrument of domination during the Nazi regime, which since its inception and until the end able to rely on it. The exhibition not only Gestamp, but also the Crime Squad and uniformed police pursued ideological and political opponents of the regime. All branches of the police were involved in killing people, in the suppression of the resistance and deportation or kidnapping civilians for forced labor. These events were committed police officers, most of whom had been trained professionally during the Weimar Republic, theoretically a democratic rule of law. Only some of them were tried after 1945. Many were able to make a career in the police service.

The exhibition presents 500 objects on the history of National Socialism police in seven chapters. The itinerary begins with the Weimar Republic, continuing through the early of dictatorship and the reformation of the police apparatus after the consolidation of the regime.

The most important point of the exhibition is the crime of the police in areas occupied since 1939, ending with the relationship between German society and the police since 1945.


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museum http://www.dhm.de/

Address:
Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin


Hours: Daily
10.00 - 18.00

Entry:
day ticket for all exhibits: 6, - €
a. Students under 18: free