Erkennungsmarke Pol. Batl. III/5
€125.00
Erkennungsmarke Pol. Batl. III/5 indicating 5 Kompanie Polizei Bataillon III. This Polizei unit was first stationed in Warschau in 1939. It was moved to Norway in 1940 near Oslo, Trondheim, Koppela and Lillehammer.
In September 1941 it was sent to Südkarnten, Yugoslavia. It was merged with Polizei Regiment Endler and took part in Bandenkampf hunting partisans between Kranj, Krainburg, Bled unto the Austrian border.
On the 16th of December 1941 it was moved for the Zamosc Polizei barracks. The Polizei Bataillon 3 was to be used as a unit elsewhere in Russia; however, during the transport, the train carrying the battalion was diverted. There, the battalion commander, Arthur Seidel, was ordered to split up his unit and relieve the Reserve-Polizei-Bataillon 9. The staff remained in Zamosc and took over the companies of the Reserve Police Battalion 9. The companies of the Reserve Police Battalion 3, on the other hand, gradually left Zamosc. This replacement of the Reserve Police Battalion 9 by the Reserve Police Battalion 3 took place in December 1941 and January 1941 respectively. The replacement of the Police Battalion 9 by the Police Battalion 3 took place “due to serious disciplinary problems, which had sometimes manifested themselves in excesses and are to be seen as a direct result of the psychological stress caused by the execution of the mass killings.” Source here
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