German Units

The Gestapo was the Nazi-instituted German secret police organization which, together with the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel) formed the basic apparatus of repression in the Third Reich. Unlike the SA and the SS, the Gestapo was not created until the Nazis had come to power. Originally operating in the state of Prussia, it receiv...

The Ordnungspolizei (Order Police or Orpo) served as a primary force for the security of Nazi Germany. In the 1930s, Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, and Kurt Daluege, commander-in-chief of the Order Police, completely restructured the police force of the Weimar Republic into several robust militarized units.

For some time prior to his resignation in January 1938, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, the Reich Defense Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces, had been attempting to create an armed forces high command. In this effort he had the full backing of Adolf Hitler and of his own subordinates in the Defense Ministry, General Wi...

The British Free Corps (BFC - German: Britisches Freikorps) was a German army formation made up of British Commonwealth POWs who had been recruited to serve the Nazi war effort during World War II. The British traitor John Amery conceived of the idea early in the war, envisioning a unit that would be used largely for propaganda.