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Ordnungspolizei: References & Edit History

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Treatments of the Ordnungspolizei include Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992); and Edward B. Westermann, Hitler’s Police Battalions (2005).

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