2nd SS Police Regiment

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2nd SS Police Regiment
CountryFlag of German Reich (1935-1945).svg  Nazi Germany
Branch Order Police under the command of the SS
TypeSecurity
Size Regiment
Garrison/HQ Wehrkreis I

The 2nd SS Police Regiment (German : SS-Polizei-Regiment 2) was initially named the 2nd Police Regiment (Polizei-Regiment 2) when it was formed in 1942 from existing Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) units for security duties in Occupied Europe. It was redesignated as an SS unit in early 1943.

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Formation and organization

The regiment was ordered formed in July 1942 in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast), but the regimental headquarters and the signal company were not formed until 2 September. [1] Police Battalion 11 (Polizei-Batallion 11), Police Battalion 13 and Police Battalion 22, the regiment's first through third battalions, respectively, were withdrawn from Russia to Tilsit between July and September to be reorganized and rebuilt. [2] The regiment was reinforced with three batteries of artillery on 29 January 1943 which were consolidated into Police Artillery Battalion I (Polizei-Geschütz Abetilung I) on 8 September. All of the police regiments were redesignated as SS police units on 24 February 1943. [3]

East Prussia province of Prussia

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 ; following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg. East Prussia was the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast.

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Battalion military unit size

A battalion is a military unit. The use of the term "battalion" varies by nationality and branch of service. Typically a battalion consists of 300 to 800 soldiers and is divided into a number of companies. A battalion is typically commanded by a lieutenant colonel. In some countries, the word "battalion" is associated with the infantry.

Activities

The regiment took part in numerous anti-partisan operations in Russia, including Operation Adler in July–August 1942, Operation Wisent in November, [1] Operation Zauberflöte in April 1943 [4] and Operation Hermann in August. [1]

A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity. The term can apply to the field element of resistance movements, examples of which are the civilians who opposed Nazi German, Fascist Italian and Ustaše Croatian rule in several countries during World War II.

Operation Magic Flute was a 1943 security operation by the German forces in the occupied Minsk, Belarus. As part of the Bandenbekämpfung security doctrine, the operation was conducted by units of the Wehrmacht and the SS Police under the command of Gerret Korsemann, the Higher SS and Police Leader for Central Russia.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Tessin & Kanapin, p. 615
  2. ↑ Arico, pp. 121, 131, 140; Tessin & Kanapin, pp. 615, 629
  3. ↑ Tessin & Kannapin, p. 557
  4. ↑ Blood, pp. 184–86

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