how was the police system under hitler?
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Organizations falling under the umbrella of the Ordnungspolizei included the Schutzpolizei (Protection Police), the gendarmerie, and the Gemeindepolizei (Rural Community Police). During the Weimar era, individual German states exercised control over the police forces within their borders. After Adolf Hitler became chancellor on January 30, 1933, however, he, Hermann Göring, Wilhelm Frick, and Heinrich Himmler began measures to centralize control of all German police forces. Himmler had assumed control of the SS in 1929 and after 1933 began to consolidate his control over the political police in the German states, a process that culminated in his appointment by Hitler as Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police in June 1936. In that position, Himmler was in charge of the SS; the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police), which included the criminal police and the Gestapo; and the Ordnungspolizei.
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