Hitler's Green Army: The German Order Police and their European Auxiliaries, 1933-1945 Volume II Eastern Europe and the Balkans By Antonio J. Munoz Color Plates by Darko Pavlovic Above: the Band and Standard of the German Police in 1938. Table of Contents Acknowledgements 5 Foreword 7 Introduction to the Balkans Section 9 Chapter 1 - 19 Poland 19 The Growth of the German Police 19 The SS and the Order Police Invade Poland 20 Notes on the Einsatzgruppen Officers 23 Additional SS and Police Units 30 The Mission Assigned to the SS and Police Forces in Poland 30 Chapter 2 - 43 Garrisoning Poland 43 German Order Police Battalions in Poland, 1939-1945 53 The German Kolonialpolizei 60 Auxiliary Police Forces in Poland 65 The Polish Blue Police 65 The Ethnic-German Selbstschutz and Sonderdienst in Poland 67 The Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft and Galician Police 67 The Jewish Order Police 69 Polish Guerrilla Forces and Regions 71 Collaboration of the Police in the Extermination of the Polish Jews 74 Garrisoning Poland: The 72nd Police Battalion - a Typical Occupation Unit 80 Garrisoning Poland: The Realities of the German Occupation 81 Chapter 3- 87 Complicity in the Atrocities by the German Order Police Forces in Poland 87 The Partisan War Escalates in Poland 97 The Polish Partisan Army 101 Jewish Bolshevism? 102 The Ukrainian Nationalist Guerrillas 103 The War Against the Polish Partisans in 1943 104 The War Against the Jews in 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto No Longer Exists! 109 Revolt in the Bialystok Ghetto Ill Revolt in the Sobibor Death Camp 112 TheLuftschutspolizei andFliegergruppez.b.V. 7 113 15 Major Station Posts of the Security Police and SD in the Generalgouvernement, 1943 122 Chapter 4- 123 The Guerrilla War in Poland in 1944 123 Background to the Forces Used in Stormwind I and // 124 The Kalmuck Cavalry Corps 126 The Warsaw Uprising: August 1st 1944 131 Chapter 5- 149 The Polish High Water Mark 149 The Uprising: August 5th-12th 1944 152 The Uprising: August 12th-September 2nd 1944 155 German Reinforcements Arrive 155 The Uprising: September 3rd-18th 1944 158 The Uprising: September 19th-October 2nd 1944 159 The Bad Rabka Polizei Schule 162 Chapter 6 - 165 Serbia 165 The KdS Command and the Jews of Serbia 168 The Nedic Puppet Government is Formed 169 The Serbian State Guard 170 The German Police in Serbia 176 Employment of SS Polizei Gebirgsjdger Regiment 18 in Serbia 180 Chapter 7 - 203 Chapter 8- 219 Croatia 219 The War against the Jews in Croatia 231 Chapter 9 - 241 Slovenia 241 The ethnic-German Wehrmannschaft 241 The Slovenian Littoral Guard 245 The Slovenian Domobranci (Home Guard) in German Service 248 Chapter 10- 269 Upper Carnolia (Slovenia) 269 Introduction 269 Historical Background 270 Formation of the Home Guard in Ljubljana province and the Slovene Littoral 277 German Reinforcements to Slovenia 278 Collaboration between Home Guard Forces 280 Establishment of the Posts in Upper Carnolia 281 The Upper Carnolian Home Defense Posts 285 16 Chapter 11- 291 Location of the Gorenjsko Domobranstvo Posts 291 Arming and Protecting the Posts 291 The Headquarters of the Gorenjsko Domobranstvo 297 Partisan Attacks on the Home Defense Posts 301 Retreat and the End of the War 303 Conclusions 306 Chapter 12- 31 lr Greece 311 September 1943 and Italy's Surrender 311 Background to the Greek Forces during the Occupation 313 Creation of the Greek Security Battalions 314 The Fight against the Greek Guerrillas 319 The Death of Greece's Jewish Population 325 Chapter 13- 331 IMRO and the Volunteer Battalions of Macedonia 331 The End ofthelMRO Volunteer Battalions 334 EASAD and the Village Militia Companies of Thessaly 335 Colonel George Poulos and the Poulos Polizei Verband of Macedonia 337 Formation of the Higher SS & Police Command "Greece" 340 Chapter 14- 353 Chapter 15- 373 Greek Security Battalions in Southern Greece 373 Chapter 16- 391 Albanian Collaborationist Militia in World War II, 1943-1944 391 Introduction 391 1943 392 1944 396 Chapter 17- 401 The Moslem Militia and Legion of the Sandjak 1943-1945 401 Chapter 18- 415 Hungary 415 The War against the Jews in Hungary 419 Slovakia 419 Bibliography 421 Errata to Volume 1 of "Hitler's Green Army " 426 Appendix 1 -Additional Data to Volume 1 427 Norway 428 17 The Netherlands .' 428 Bohemia/Moravia 439 Belgium 450 Italy 457 France 459 Czech Territories 462 Appendix 2 - Color Uniform Plates 463 Appendix 3 -Documents, Letters, & Awards 485 Alphabetical Name Index 505 Left: illustrative representation of SS and Police General Georg Jedicke, circa 1942. Above: Officer's cap and close-up of the metallic national emblem. Below: detail of the metallic national eagle and national cockade. 18.