The 9th SS Police Regiment (german: SS-Polizei-Regiment 9) was initially named the 9th Police Regiment (''Polizei-Regiment 9'') when it was formed in 1942 from existing
Order Police
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(''Ordnungspolizei'') units for security duties on the
Eastern Front. It was redesignated as an
SS unit in early 1943.
Formation and organization
The regiment was ordered formed in July 1942 in
Russia
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, but the
regiment
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In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscripted ...
al headquarters was not formed until 2 September.
[Tessin & Kanapin, p. 618] Police Battalion 61 (''Polizei-Batallion 61''),
Police Battalion 112 and
Police Battalion 132 were redesignated as the regiment's first through third
battalion
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s, respectively.
[Arico, pp. 184, 316, 335] All of the police regiments were redesignated as SS police units on 24 February 1943.
[Tessin & Kannapin, p. 557]
The regiment was destroyed in July 1944 and its remnants were incorporated into III Battalion of the
16th SS Police Regiment
The 16th SS Police Regiment (german: SS-Polizei-Regiment 16) was initially named the 16th Police Regiment (''Polizei-Regiment 16'') when it was formed in 1942 from existing Order Police () units for security duties on the Eastern Front. It was re ...
. It was ordered reformed on 29 January 1945 by the redesignation of
SS Police Regiment Alpine Foothills (''SS-Polizei-Regiment Alpenvorland'').
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Notes
References
* Arico, Massimo. ''Ordnungspolizei: Encyclopedia of the German Police Battalions'', Stockholm: Leandoer and Ekholm (2010).
*Blood, Phillip W. ''Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe'', Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books (2006).
*Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert. ''Waffen-SS under Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939–1945: Ein Überlick anhand der Feldpostübersicht'', Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag (2000).
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