Reserve Police Battalion 33, the Glossary
Reserve Police Battalion 33, "Ostland", (Polizei-Bataillon 33, also: Polizei-Bataillon "Ostland") was a militarised unit of the German Ordnungspolizei (uniformed police) in World War II.[1]
Table of Contents
39 relations: Axis anti-partisan operations in World War II, Bandenbekämpfung, Einsatzkommando, Estonian Legion, Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Oder), Ghetto, Jews, Kostopil, Lviv, Minsk, Nazi Germany, Non-commissioned officer, Obersturmführer, Officer, Order Police battalions, Ordnungspolizei, Ovruch, Private (rank), Reichskommissariat Ukraine, Reserve Police Battalion 101, Riga Central Station, Riga Ghetto, Rivne, Słonim Ghetto, Schutzstaffel, Second Polish Republic, Slonim, Sosenki, SS Main Office, Stahnsdorf, The Holocaust in Belarus, The Holocaust in Poland, The Holocaust in Ukraine, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, Untersturmführer, Volksdeutsche, Wendy Lower, World War II.
- Local participation in the Holocaust
- Military history of Belarus during World War II
- Military history of Ukraine during World War II
- Police units of Nazi Germany
- The Holocaust in Ukraine
Axis anti-partisan operations in World War II
Axis forces were involved in counter-insurgency operations against the various resistance movements during World War II.
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Bandenbekämpfung
In German military history, Bandenbekämpfung (German), also referred to as Nazi security warfare during World War II, refers to the concept and military doctrine of countering resistance or insurrection in the rear area during wartime with extreme brutality.
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Einsatzkommando
During World War II, the Nazi German Einsatzkommandos were a sub-group of the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Reserve Police Battalion 33 and Einsatzkommando are the Holocaust in Belarus and the Holocaust in Ukraine.
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Estonian Legion
The Estonian Legion (Eesti Leegion, Estnische Legion) was a military unit of the Combat Support Forces of the Waffen-SS during World War II, mainly consisting of Estonian soldiers.
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.
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Frankfurt (Oder)
Frankfurt (Oder), also known as Frankfurt an der Oder (Central Marchian: Frankfort an de Oder) is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after Potsdam, Cottbus and Brandenburg an der Havel.
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Ghetto
A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Kostopil
Kostopil (Костопіль, Kostopol) is a small city on the river in Rivne Oblast, western Ukraine (historical Volhynia).
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Lviv
Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.
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Minsk
Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Non-commissioned officer
A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who does not hold a commission.
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Obersturmführer
Obersturmführer (short: Ostuf) was a Nazi Germany paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organisations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.
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Officer
An officer is a person who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization.
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Order Police battalions
The Order Police battalions were militarised formations of the German Ordnungspolizei (Order Police, "Orpo") during the Nazi era. Reserve Police Battalion 33 and Order Police battalions are the Holocaust in Belarus and the Holocaust in Ukraine.
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Ordnungspolizei
The Ordnungspolizei, abbreviated Orpo, meaning "Order Police", were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945.
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Ovruch
Ovruch (Овруч) is a city in Korosten Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine.
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Private (rank)
A private is a soldier, usually with the lowest rank in many armies.
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Reichskommissariat Ukraine
The Reichskommissariat Ukraine (RKU) was established by Nazi Germany in 1941 during World War II. Reserve Police Battalion 33 and Reichskommissariat Ukraine are military history of Germany during World War II and military history of Ukraine during World War II.
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Reserve Police Battalion 101
Reserve Police Battalion 101 (Reserve-Polizei-Bataillon 101) was a Nazi German paramilitary formation of the uniformed police force known as the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police, Orpo), the organization formed by the Nazi unification of the civilian police forces in the country in 1936, placed under the leadership of the SS and grouped into battalions in 1939.
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Riga Central Station
Riga Central Station (Rīgas Centrālā stacijа) is the main railway station in Riga, Latvia. It is known as the main point of Riga due to its central location, and most forms of public transport stop in this area. Part of the building is a shopping centre. Three rail mainlines connect the station to the east.
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Riga Ghetto
Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, where Nazis forced Jews from Latvia, and later from the German "Reich" (Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Moravia), to live during World War II.
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Rivne
Rivne (Рівне) is a city in western Ukraine.
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Słonim Ghetto
The Słonim Ghetto (getto w Słonimiu, Слонімскае гета, Ghetto von Slonim, סלאָנים) was a Nazi ghetto established in 1941 by the SS in Slonim, Western Belarus during World War II.
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Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.
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Slonim
Slonim (Слонім; Слоним; Slanimas; Sloņima; Słonim; סלאָנים) is a town in Grodno Region, in western Belarus.
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Sosenki
Sosenki (Сосенки) is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia.
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SS Main Office
The SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt; SS-HA) was the central command office of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in Nazi Germany until 1940.
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Stahnsdorf
Stahnsdorf is a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.
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The Holocaust in Belarus
The Holocaust in Belarus refers to the systematic extermination of Jews living in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during its occupation by Nazi Germany in World War II.
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The Holocaust in Poland
The Holocaust in Poland was the ghettoization, robbery, deportation, and murder of Jews, simultaneously with other people groups for identical racial pretexts, in occupied Poland, organized by Nazi Germany.
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The Holocaust in Ukraine
The Holocaust in Ukraine was the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the General Government, the Crimean General Government and some areas which were located to the East of Reichskommissariat Ukraine (all of those areas were under the military control of Nazi Germany), in the Transnistria Governorate and Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region (all of those areas were then part of Romania, with the latter three areas being re-annexed) and Carpathian Ruthenia (then part of Hungary) during World War II. Reserve Police Battalion 33 and the Holocaust in Ukraine are military history of Ukraine during World War II.
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Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (Ukrainische Hilfspolizei; Ukrainska dopomizhna politsiia) was the official title of the local police formation (a type of hilfspolizei) set up by Nazi Germany during World War II in Eastern Galicia and Reichskommissariat Ukraine, shortly after the German occupation of the Western Ukrainian SSR in Operation Barbarossa. Reserve Police Battalion 33 and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police are local participation in the Holocaust, military history of Ukraine during World War II and the Holocaust in Ukraine.
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Untersturmführer
Untersturmführer (short: Ustuf) was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) first created in July 1934.
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Volksdeutsche
In Nazi German terminology, were "people whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship." The term is the nominalised plural of volksdeutsch, with denoting a singular female, and, a singular male.
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Wendy Lower
Wendy Lower (born 1965) is an American historian and a widely published author on the Holocaust and World War II.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Local participation in the Holocaust
- Arajs Kommando
- Belarusian Auxiliary Police
- Blue Police
- Easter Pogrom
- German-Croatian Police
- Hiwi (volunteer)
- Invasion and occupation of Monaco during World War II
- Jedwabne pogrom
- Latvian Auxiliary Police
- Lithuanian Activist Front
- Lithuanian Auxiliary Police
- Lithuanian Security Police
- Lithuanian TDA Battalion
- Lithuanian partisans (1941)
- Massacre of Uus Street
- Nachtigall Battalion
- Polish Criminal Police
- Reserve Police Battalion 33
- Rollkommando Hamann
- Schutzmannschaft
- Selbstschutz
- Statspolitiet
- Szczuczyn pogrom
- Szmalcownik
- The Holocaust in Estonia
- The Holocaust in Latvia
- Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
- Ukrainian People's Militsiya
- Ypatingasis būrys
Military history of Belarus during World War II
- Belarusian Auxiliary Police
- Belarusian Home Defence
- Belarusian Independence Party
- Bombing of Minsk in World War II
- Byelorussia in World War II
- Dzyatlava Ghetto
- Extermination battalion
- German occupation of Byelorussia during World War II
- Gorodok offensive
- Occupation of the Baltic states
- Operation Bagration
- Operation Bamberg
- Operation Cottbus
- Operation Hornung
- Reichskommissariat Ostland
- Reserve Police Battalion 33
- Vitsyebsk gate
Military history of Ukraine during World War II
- 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)
- Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive
- Extermination battalion
- Green Guard
- Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive
- Odessa Offensive
- Reichskommissariat Ukraine
- Reserve Police Battalion 33
- Roland Battalion
- Separate Coastal Army
- The Holocaust in Ukraine
- Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army
- Ukrainian People's Militsiya
- Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army
Police units of Nazi Germany
- 12th SS Police Regiment
- Administrative police in Nazi Germany
- Bahnschutzpolizei
- Feuerschutzpolizei
- Forest Protection Command
- Gemeindepolizei (Nazi Germany)
- Kriminalpolizei (Nazi Germany)
- Postschutz
- Reserve Police Battalion 33
- Schutzpolizei (Nazi Germany)
- Zollgrenzschutz
The Holocaust in Ukraine
- 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
- Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
- Bilche-Zolote
- Deutsche Volksliste
- Durchgangsstrasse IV
- Einsatzgruppen
- Einsatzgruppen reports
- Einsatzkommando
- Extraordinary State Commission
- Generalplan Ost
- Hegewald (colony)
- Hermann Friedrich Graebe
- Holocaust by Bullets
- Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph
- Kharkov Trial
- Lozisht
- Luboml: My Heart Remembers
- Mizoch Ghetto
- Monistritch (Hasidic dynasty)
- Nachtigall Battalion
- No Place on Earth
- Olyka
- Order Police battalions
- Pechora concentration camp
- Police Battalion 303
- Police Battalion 306
- Police Battalion 320
- Police Battalion 45
- Reserve Police Battalion 33
- Romanivka, Berdychiv Raion
- Severity Order
- Slovechno
- Sonderaktion 1005
- Tango of Death
- The Holocaust in Transnistria
- The Holocaust in Ukraine
- The Last Jew in Vinnitsa
- The Lemberg Mosaic
- The White Hotel
- Trochenbrod
- Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
- Ukrainian Insurgent Army
- Ukrainian People's Militsiya
- Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations
- Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_Police_Battalion_33
Also known as Politsei SS-pataljon Ostland, Politsei-Bataillon 33, Polizei-Bataillon "Ostland", Polizei-Bataillon 33.