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Kurt Daluege
Kurt Daluege served as chief of the Order Police and acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in German Order Police across occupied Europe and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Daluege headed the Order Police after the German police was centralised under Himmler in June 1936.
- He expanded militarised police battalions that guarded ghettos, escorted deportation transports and participated in mass shootings in occupied Poland and the Soviet territories.
- As acting Reich Protector after Heydrich's death, he approved collective reprisals that included the destruction of Lidice and Ležáky.
Place in the chain of responsibility
Daluege linked central Order Police command to deployed battalions and, later, territorial reprisal policy. Local commanders and individual policemen remained accountable for their operational decisions.
Key events and mechanisms
- appointment as chief of the Order Police, June 1936
- deployment of police battalions in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union, 1939–1941
- reprisals in the Protectorate after Heydrich's death, 1942
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
British forces arrested Daluege and extradited him to Czechoslovakia in 1946. A Prague court convicted him of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including responsibility for Lidice, and he was hanged on 24 October 1946.
Limits of the evidence
The profile distinguishes Daluege's central and Protectorate offices from the separate orders and conduct of specific police battalions outside his direct presence.
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.
