Not to be confused with Estnische Schutzmannschafts Abteilung 33.
Reserve Police Battalion 33
Polizei Front-Bataillon 33 "Ostland"
Active
August 1941 – 1943
Country
Nazi Germany
Branch
Order Police
Type
Order Police battalion
Role
Nazi security warfare The Holocaust in Poland The Holocaust in Belarus The Holocaust in Ukraine
Part of
Police unit under SS command
Commanders
Notable commanders
Herberts Brašnevics Heinrich Stunde Paul Laamann SS-Obersturmführer Rudolf Steinpick Hugo Siim
Military unit
Reserve Police Battalion 33,[1][2]"Ostland", (German: Polizei-Bataillon 33, also: Polizei-Bataillon "Ostland") was a militarised unit of the German Ordnungspolizei (uniformed police) in World War II. For the first three months between August and October 1941 – according to Latvian Museum of Occupation – its official name was Police Reserve Battalion "Ostland" (Polizei-Reserve-Bataillon "Ostland") and, from October 1941, the 33rd Reserve Police Battalion (Reserve-Polizei-Bataillon 33).[3] The 1st Company of Battalion 33 was known as Ostlandkompanie. It was composed largely of Estonian Volksdeutsche.[2]
The battalion originated in Stahnsdorf, and was formed up at Frankfurt an der Oder in August 1941.[4] It carried out so-called anti-partisan operations and mass shootings.[5] According to historians referring to the SS-Hauptamt's document No. 8699/42, the Polizei-Bataillon 33 resided in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine in 1941-1942 and took part of the mass shootings of the Jews. As reported in May, 1942 to Berlin, 1,000 Jews were murdered in Minsk; as reported on July 15, 1942 another thousand Jews were shot in the same place; as reported on June 27, 1942, 4,000 Jews of the Słonim Ghetto were murdered on the outskirts of Słonim; as reported on July 28, 1942, another 6,000 Jews were killed in Minsk.
^J. Burds (2013). Holocaust in Rovno: The Massacre at Sosenki Forest, November 1941. Springer. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-137-38840-7. The 1st Company of Reserve Police Battalion 33, also known as Ostlandkompanie, was composed largely of Estonian Volksdeutsche, who had fled the Soviet occupation in 1940–41.
^ abRay Brandon; Wendy Lower (2008). The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization. Indiana University Press. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-253-00159-7. Reserve Police Battalion 33 (pp. 48, 277); 1st Company: Ostlandkompanie (p. 43). November 1941: After consultations with Beer, the police—Orpo Battalions 69, 315, and 320 (together with Ostlandkompanie) and the detachment from Ek 5—murdered some 17,000 Jews near the village of Sosenki.
^Arūns Bubnis; Tomass Hīo (2005). Latvijas Okupācijas muzeja Gadagrāmata 2004: Cīņa par Baltiju. Rīgā, Latvia: Latvijas okupācijas muzejs. p. 36. ISBN 978-9984-9613-5-4. Index of Articles.{{cite book}}: External link in |quote= (help)
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