Warsaw: police terror, deportation, uprising and plunder

The Warsaw profiles connect several institutional layers without treating them as interchangeable. Max Daume represents the early hostage and collective-punishment system. Josef Meisinger, Ludwig Hahn and Walter Stamm show successive command, prison and execution structures within the Security Police and SD. Heinz Auerswald’s office regulated everyday life and isolation in the ghetto, while Hermann Worthoff and Georg Michalsen represent personnel involved in deportation operations.

The 1944 profiles preserve distinctions between Alfred Spilker’s police Sonderkommando, Paul Otto Geibel’s district police command, Heinz Reinefarth’s combat group and Bronislav Kaminski’s RONA brigade within the German command chain. Franz Konrad’s apparatus registered and removed property during the destruction of the ghetto, while Gustav Abb’s library administration organised another form of occupation violence: the systematic seizure, selection and movement of Polish and Jewish collections.

Scope limitation: this thirteen-profile cluster does not include every district authority, railway office, prison official, police or combat unit, auxiliary formation or killing site connected with occupied Warsaw. It reconstructs only the documented functions and intersections represented here and does not assign every local crime to a commander, an office or a formation.