The chief of the Order Police has issued the corresponding instructions to the Order Police including the fire brigades. Close coordination is to be maintained between the Security Police and the Order Police during the implementation of the ordered actions…

signed: [Reinhard] Heydrich

SS-Gruppenfuehrer

[SS-Major General, Nazi Chief of Security Police]

[3051 PS]

The Security Police [political and criminal divisions], the Order Police [uniformed police] and the fire brigades were involved in the planning of Kristallnacht. What were the implications of this coordinated planning for the victims of the riot?