The SS Police Regiment Brixen () was a security formation of the German
Order Police
The ''Ordnungspolizei'' (), abbreviated ''Orpo'', meaning "Order Police", were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. The Orpo organisation was absorbed into the Nazi monopoly on power after regional police jurisdiction w ...
during
World War II. The unit operated along the
Alps, conducting
Nazi security warfare
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
in German-occupied northern Italy.
Formation and service
The unit was raised on 12 October 1944 in
Brixen, Italy, from local conscripts (ethnically Germans) with a cadre of Germans; its training was completed in December. The previous month it reported a strength of 1,335 men in three
battalions. When the men learned that it might be transferred to the front lines in early 1945, many deserted. In February, the two remaining battalions were used to rebuild SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 80 of the
31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division __NOTOC__
The 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division (german: 31. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division)Official designation in German language as to „Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv“ in Freiburg im Breisgau, stores of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. was ...
.
[Battistelli & Crociani, p. 39; Nix & Georges, p. 281; Tessin & Kannapin, p. 606]
Citations
Bibliography
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*Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert (2000). ''Waffen-SS under Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939–1945: Ein Überlick anhand der Feldpostübersicht'', Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag.
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