Ordnungspolizei in the East Nazi Book

The images and text used on this and all other USM web pages are the copyrighted property
of USM Inc. Those images and the text may be used by others ONLY AFTER completion
of a formal international licensing agreement and payment of a licensing fee!

ORDNUNGSPOLIZEI IN THE EAST BOOK

THE RARE BOOK
ORDNUNGSPOLIZEI AUF DEN
ROLLBAHNEN DES OSTENS
(ORDER POLICE ON THE THUNDERING
ROADS OF THE EAST)

This is a very rare book!

Because the subject matter invloves the SS and Police most examples of it were destroyed by their owners at the end of the war. Even today various factions use the events depicted for their own purposes: some to claim that the police shown here were not involved in the notorious Einsatzgruppen, and some to show the opposite - that they were simply police handing out tickets and doing their duty.

We are book sellers and historians not attempting to find fault or lay blame. Rare books like this one are useful only in their function of shedding light on a complex and little understood subject.

The 7-3/4 x 10-1/2 inch, 64 page book Ordnungspolizei auf den Rollbahnen des Ostens (Order Police on the Battle Route of the East) was written by Hauptmann der Schutzpolizei der Reserve Hans Richter and published by the Zentralverlag der NSDAP (The Nazi Party Central Publishing House) Franz Eher in München (Munich), Germany in 1943.

The book was produced in the photographic style of many of the Heinrich Hoffmann books and documents the Einsätzen der Ordnungspolizei im Sommer 1941 im Osten... or the infamous activities of the SS-Police in the East.

The book has only nine pages of introductory text and the remainder is well-captioned photographs of the militarized Nazi police in action in Russia taking on the civilian population, guerillas, Soviet paratroopers and assorted others in a merciless campaign.

There is a photo of Generaloberst der Polizei Daluege wishing the troops well before they left Riga in the summer of 1941. There are photo sequences of the removal of Jews and their possessions from their quarter in Razzia, and the forced entry by militarized Nazi police troops of their synagogue.

Other sequences show members of the militarized Nazi Ordnungspolizei seizing weapons caches from log houses in a village near Grodno, questioning captives, and a Russian cemetery in Libau.

The Ritterhaus, Service Headquarters of the Higher SS and Police Authority East in Riga is shown as are Lithuanian Police Auxiliaries, General Müllverstedt, militarized Nazi police graves, militarized Nazi police medal award ceremonies and a visit by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and General Kurt Daluege. The field headquarters of Division Staff is shown as well as horses of the unit, division artillery on the march, police communications troops and machine gun troops, police anti-tank troops and armored reconnaissance troops, oil fields, destroyed Russian tanks and refugees.

This rare original 65+ year old book is in very good condition.

If you have a further interest in this subject, be sure to see
Hans Richter’s 1941 book Einsatz der Polizei.

This rare 1943 Nazi Ordnungspolizei book is **SOLD**.
USM book # 346

This USM Books website is Copyright © 2011 by USM, Inc., and the text and images on it are fully protected by international copyright law. It is therefore, illegal for anyone to take any of the material found here and use it for their own purposes without our written permission, irrespective of any excuse they may feel they have for doing so.