Hilfspolizei

  • Auxiliary Police
  • Hipo
Identifier
714
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

The establishment of the Hilfspolizei represented an important initial step in binding the police with the organizations of the Nazi Party in both a symbolic and a substantive sense.

Places

  • Founded in Germany.

Sources

  • Hitler's police battalions : enforcing racial war in the East / E.B. Westermann. - Kansas, 2010. - p. 42.