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The purpose of this study is to provide a systematic analysis of the concept of the “local auxiliary police” in the Reichskommissariat “Ukraine” (hereinafter – RKU) within contemporary historiographical discourse, to identify its main structural characteristics, and to provide a theoretical justification for its use as a generalized historiographical category in the study of the Nazi occupation regime of 1941–1944. The methodological framework is based on general scientific and specialized historical methods, including the comparative-historical, structural-functional, and terminological methods. The comparative-historical method was employed to compare different scholarly approaches to defining local police formations. The structural-functional method was used to identify the organizational, personnel, and functional characteristics of the local auxiliary police. The relationship between historical concepts and their historiographical interpretations was examined through terminological analysis. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the theoretical analysis of the organizational, legal, personnel, and functional characteristics of local police formations in the RKU. The main outcome of the study is the formulation of a generalized historiographical category of “local auxiliary police” that may serve as an effective analytical tool for studying the Nazi occupation regime. The conclusions demonstrate that, despite differences in the authorities responsible for their establishment, official designations, and organizational structures, local police formations shared common principles of recruitment, subordination, and formally defined functions. The attributes “local” and “auxiliary” characterize the territorial principle of recruitment and the institutional dependence of these formations on the German occupation authorities.
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@article{2026CONCEPT,
title = {THE CONCEPT OF “LOCAL AUXILIARY POLICE” IN THE REICHSKOMMISSARIAT “UKRAINE” IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DISCOURSE: TERMINOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION},
author = {Олександр Григорович Шамрай},
journal = {South Archive (Historical Sciences)},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.32999/ksu2786-5118/2026-55-8},
url = {https://doi.org/10.32999/ksu2786-5118/2026-55-8}
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