Poster from the Berlin History Museum which speaks for itself. The exhibit was "Order and Annihilation--The Police and the Nazi Regime." The police were a central instrument of rule for the Nazi regime and all the branches of the German police took part in the terror against the political and ideological oponents of the Nazi state. The police played a decisive role in the murder of European Jews. After 1945 many were able to continue their careers in the police service in the Federal Republic of Germany.