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The SS and Police Leaders were the overseeing authority of the [[Jews|Jewish]] [[Nazi ghettos|ghettos]] in Poland and directly coordinated deportations to Nazi [[extermination camps]]. They had direct command over [[Order Police battalions]] and SD regiments that were assigned to guard the ghettos. The HSSPF regularly provided SS and police guards and other support personnel for the transports to the death camps, and also negotiated with the agencies and ministries of the Reich for rolling stock, supplies and provisions, rail schedules, and an array of other requirements necessary to keep the roundups and the death trains moving efficiently. And, in the satellite and client states, the HSSPF negotiated directly with the [[puppet state|puppet]] or [[Collaboration with theNazi AxisGermany powersand Fascist Italy|collaborationist]] governments to hand over their Jews for deportation to the East. Finally, the HSSPF were also directly involved in the construction and operation of the extermination camps.<ref>[https://www.museumoftolerance.com/education/archives-and-reference-library/online-resources/simon-wiesenthal-center-annual-volume-6/annual-6-chapter-10.html On the Historiography of the SS] in [https://www.museumoftolerance.com/ Museum of Tolerance] Retrieved 14 February 2022.</ref> Following the end of the war, many SS and Police Leaders, particularly those who had served in Poland and the Soviet Union, either committed [[suicide]] or were charged with [[war crime]]s and [[crimes against humanity]].{{sfn|Yerger|1997|p=23}}