Selected records of the Auxiliary Police. Battalion No 202 Kraków Schutzmannschaft Bataillon 202 Kraków (Sygn.GK 658)
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Creator(s)
- Schutzmannschaft Bataillon
Biographical History
The Schutzmannschaft Battalion 202 was a failed collaborationist auxiliary police battalion in the General Government during World War II. It was made up of 360 conscripts with Nazi German leadership. The unit was created in Kraków officially on March 27, 1942 with recruitment beginning in May. Only two Polish men volunteered. As a result, the Germans resorted to conscription from the regular Polish city-police called Einheimische Polizei. Once in Volhynia, the battalion stationed in Łuck originally. Soon later, in around Kostopol, half the members deserted to Polish anti-Nazi 27th Home Army Infantry Division, in defense of the ethnic Polish population against the UPA massacres. Additional 60 Poles were rounded up and executed by the Nazi-Germans for mutiny. During formation, the battalion stationed in Kraków at Michałowskiego Street (renamed Luxemburgstrasse). Basic training took place in Dębica. Its first commandant was Captain Tschnadel. Members wore green uniforms of Orpo and received Mauser 98 rifles before transfer to occupied Eastern Poland with the intention of fighting Soviet partisans behind the front-line of Operation Barbarossa. All Schutzmannschaften auxiliary police battalions were formed by the Germans from inhabitants of occupied territories i.e. in the General Government; as support for the Nazi Sicherheitspolizei (security police) which was understaffed. At one point, the number of conscripted policemen in occupied eastern Poland included 5,000-12,000 Ukrainians and 2,000-2,200 Poles, mostly pitted against each other.
Archival History
Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Sygn. GK 658. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in 2015
Scope and Content
This collection contains personnel files of Polish police officers assigned to the Auxiliary Police Battalion No 202 P in Kraków and serving in the practice camp in Kochanówka near Debica.
System of Arrangement
Selected records arranged in 1 series: 1. Personal files of Polish police officers assigned to Battalion No. 202/P. Organized alphabetically. Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Corporate Bodies
- Policja Polska Generalnego Gubernatorstwa
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Einsatzgruppen des Sicherheitsdienstes und der Sicherheitspolizei
- Germany. Gestapo
Subjects
- Dębica (Województwo Podkarpackie, Poland)
- Police--Poland--History--20th century--Registers.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe, Eastern.
- Police administration--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--Poland--Dębica.
- World War, 1939-1945--Police--Poland--Dębica--Registers.
Genre
- Registers.
- Document
Copies
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