During the Australian gold rush the police were called traps
They were trying to save their lives. The Holocaust was a genocide of the Jewish people. That means they were all being killed off. Some people began realizing that when their neighbours were taken by the secret police. They left to save their families lives.
Dictatorships find it very useful to have special police organizations whose ruthlessness and cruelty strikes fear in the hearts of anyone who might want to oppose the dictatorship.
The Jewish ghetto police secured the deportation of Jewish people to the concentration camps. They were also not permitted to carry weapons.
Before the Holocaust began, the anti-Jewish measures were enacted under the veil of the law: The parliament created laws which excluded and persecuted Jews. As such Jews would have had to resist the law, the police, the state, in effect the country itself.
She was a dutch women who saved around 150 people during the Holocaust. She even shot a police man to save some Jewish children.
the police were still the police, but there were also extra police-type forces, like the Gestapo.
Jewish police
The flop were German police in the world war II. They guarded the ghettos but i am not sure why they called them flops.
It means the Secret Police... They were the ones always trying to find the Jews to put them in the camps.
During the Australian gold rush the police were called traps
They were trying to save their lives. The Holocaust was a genocide of the Jewish people. That means they were all being killed off. Some people began realizing that when their neighbours were taken by the secret police. They left to save their families lives.
Dictatorships find it very useful to have special police organizations whose ruthlessness and cruelty strikes fear in the hearts of anyone who might want to oppose the dictatorship.
The Jewish ghetto police secured the deportation of Jewish people to the concentration camps. They were also not permitted to carry weapons.
Before the Holocaust began, the anti-Jewish measures were enacted under the veil of the law: The parliament created laws which excluded and persecuted Jews. As such Jews would have had to resist the law, the police, the state, in effect the country itself.
Geheime Staatspolizei (states secret police) - the Gestapo were controlled by Heinrich Himmler, Reichfuhrer (commander) of the SS and a leading member of the Nazi party. Of course, Himmler was answering to Hitler.. If you're asking about the SS - Schutzstaffel (defense corps) who were under Hitler, they were not the police. They were a paramilitary organization.
very little, they were essentially police, but the rounding up of Jews was done by the local (ie French police in France) police forces. The Gestapo's largest role in the Holocaust was to investigate statments submitted by informants.