~ WW2 Era German M34 Double Decal Nazi Police – Ordnungspolizei – Helmet – Restored ~
This is a helmet of the Ordnungspolizei (translated as Order Police) which encompassed the Police combat units as well as all regular Polizei units like Traffic police and criminal police. On top of that a lot of so-called civil service units were also absorbed by the Ordnungspolizei like the Feuerwehr and Luftschutzpolizei.
Our example has been accurately restored, cleaned of rust, repainted with the correct nuance, re-decalled and re-lined with the correct pattern decals and liner.
The size of the helmet is 56
~ Short description and history ~
In the prewar period, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, and Kurt Daluege, chief of the Order Police, cooperated in transforming the police force of the Weimar Republic into militarised formations ready to serve the regime’s aims of conquest and racial annihilation. Police troops were first formed into battalion-sized formations for the invasion of Poland, where they were deployed for security and policing purposes, also taking part in executions and mass deportations. During World War II, the force had the task of policing the civilian population of the occupied and colonised countries beginning in spring 1940. Orpo’s activities escalated to genocide with the invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa. Twenty-three Order Police battalions, formed into independent regiments or attached to Wehrmacht security divisions and Einsatzgruppen, perpetrated mass-murder in the Holocaust and were responsible for widespread crimes against humanity and genocide targeting the civilian population.
