Selected records of the Auxiliary Police. Battalion No 202 Kraków Schutzmannschaft Bataillon 202 Kraków (Sygn.GK 658)

Identifier
irn98212
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.55
  • RG-15.364
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1955
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

2,907 digital images, PDF

1 CD,

Creator(s)

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

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This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.