On-Site Program: Policing in Nazi Germany

After the Nazi Party came to power, the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo) – Germany’s uniformed precinct police officers, battalions, and members of the German gendarmerie – played a crucial role in carrying out the Nazi Party’s agenda. While the Order Police performed ordinary tasks such as responding to accidents and crime, they were perpetrators of reprehensible acts and ultimately complicit in the murder of more than one million human beings.

Join Edward Westermann, Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University – San Antonio, and author of Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East, to learn how German police forces helped implement systems of persecution that eventually led to genocide.

Museum Members: Free; Non-Members: Museum Admission

Community Partners: Chicago-Kent School of Law Center for National Security and Human Rights Law; Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University; ADL-Midwest; DANK Haus German American Cultural Center