ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationships between British and German police officers in the British occupation zone. As the British military government viewed the German police as an organisation which had strongly supported and carried out National Socialist ideas, they reorganised the force in 1945, dismissed many officers, disarmed the remaining officers and tried to educate them in a democratic way. This chapter discusses how these changes were received by the German police, in which ways German officers cooperated or refused to obey orders, and how far perceptions and strategies on both sides changed during the occupation period.
