Police Order No. 5 did not mark the start of the arrest , deportation and murder of Jews in Italy , which had begun almost immediately after the start of the German occupation in September . In case of the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome on 16 October 1943 , when over 1,000 Jews were arrested to be deported and killed at Auschwitz , the Roman police had not participated and had not been asked to as the Germans considered them to be to unreliable . Up to the issuing of the police order , Italian police had only assisted the Germans in the arrest and persecution of Jews when requested to . From 1 December 1943 it did so on its own accord . The Fascist Italian government also established concentration camps for arrested Jews following the issuing of Police Order No. 5 , like the Fossoli camp , reopened in December 1943 , which was eventually handed over to the Germans in March 1944
Raid of the Ghetto of Rome
Raid of the Ghetto of Rome
RSI Police Order No. 5