TY - BOOK AU - Majerus,BenoƮt TI - The SipoSiPo-SD in Belgium PY - 2013///. N1 - 85 N2 - This article takes a fresh look at the role of the SipoSiPo-SD police force in occupied Belgium, often presented as all-powerful. However, this German police force was essentially a small bureaucratic institution that functioned reactively rather than proactively. Our analysis is structured around three hypotheses. Firstly, the SiPo-SD was merely one repressive apparatus among others. Secondly, its position within the German police force as a whole was not dictated by competition with other institutions, including the military administration. Thirdly, the political police did not form a homogeneous ensemble, but rather had several dividing lines UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-vingtieme-siecle-revue-d-histoire-2013-3-page-43?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -