The 10th SS Police Regiment () was initially named the 10th Police Regiment (''Polizei-Regiment 10'') when it was formed in 1942 by the redesignation of
Police Regiment South
The Police Regiment South (''Polizei-Regiment Süd'') was a formation of the German Order Police, the German national uniformed police force, during the Nazi era. During Operation Barbarossa, it was subordinated to the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) and ...
for
security warfare in the occupied Soviet Union. It was redesignated as an
SS unit in early 1943.
Formation and organization
The regiment was ordered formed in July 1942 in Southern
Russia
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from Police Regiment South.
[Tessin & Kanapin, p. 618] Police Battalion 45,
Police Battalion 303 and
Police Battalion 314 were redesignated as the regiment's first through third
battalion
A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers. A battalion is commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into several Company (military unit), companies, each typically commanded by a Major (rank), ...
s, respectively. All of the police regiments were redesignated as SS police units on 24 February 1943, while retaining its existing organization and strength. On 11 March, the 10th Police Panzer
Company
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was formed with two
platoon
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s of ex-French
Panhard 178 armored cars and a platoon of captured Soviet tanks, but there were no tanks available. The company was transferred to Russia to join the regiment shortly afterwards. It was attached to the
11th SS Police Regiment in June and never returned to the 10th Regiment.
[Regensberg, pp. 119–121] In July 1944, the regiment was stationed in Eastern Italy and
Slovenia
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for
security operations and it had been reinforced by an artillery
battery and a cavalry
squadron.
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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).
*Regenberg, Werner. ''Armored Vehicles and Units of the German Order Police, 1936–1945''. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer (2002)
*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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