Battle of Hamburg (1945) siege by the Soviet Red Army, refused to send reinforcements. The Germans managed to resist the British in Bremen for a week; the surviving troops retreated to the Jutland peninsula. The last remaining defence was the city of Hamburg and the Germans sought to make a final stand there. After capturing Soltau, the British 7th Armoured Division of the VIII Corps was poised to assault the city. The British advance towards Hamburg was spearheaded by the 7th Armoured Division, attacking Harburg and advancing to the River Elbe across from Hamburg, with the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division assaulting the town of
Hamburg Police the development up to the North Sea flood of 1962 and the following incorporation of the police into the State Ministry of the Interior. On 3 May 1945, the first order for the police force in Hamburg by the "609 Detachment Hansestadt Hamburg", the military administrative government for Hamburg, was to stand by armed. On 7 May 1945, precise regulations for the German police offices were published. In 1945 head of the police was the British Colonel Michel O'Rorke, chief of the "Public Safety Branch". At the beginning of May 1945, the police force had 1,720 active officers, 3,456 reserve