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    The Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz was an ethnic-German self-protection militia, a paramilitary organization comprising ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) mobilized...
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    were officially merged into one organization, the ethnic German Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz (Self-Defense Force) of more than 100,000 men. They took part...
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  • Hitlera: Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz w okupowanej Polsce 1939-1940: wybrane zagadnienia (Hitler's Forgotten Executioners: the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz in...
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    Volksdeutsche (redirect from Volksdeutscher)
    of volksdeutsch, with Volksdeutsche denoting a singular female, and Volksdeutscher, a singular male. The words Volk and völkisch conveyed the meanings...
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    Einsatzgruppen performed these murders with the support of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, a paramilitary group consisting of ethnic Germans living in...
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    Piasnica Wielka (pictured). The civilian shooters belonged to Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz aiding EK–16. During that period approximately 12,000 to 16,000...
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    for the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, an ethnic German paramilitary unit. He reported directly to his namesake and Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz commander...
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    German paramilitary organisation Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz. When the German occupation of Poland began, the Selbstschutz took an active part in Nazi crimes...
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    of the Einsatzgruppen death squads and members of the local Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, the German-minority militia, justified their actions by falsely...
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    The perpetrators were mainly from the new Selbstschutz battalions called the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, a paramilitary formation of civilian shooters...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    by members of the German minority in Poland involved in the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz who acted as fifth column. The Central Unit IIP-Poland was created...
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    World War II. They were based on similar SS formations called Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz operating in the Warthegau district of German-annexed western...
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    perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen, with assistance from the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz and local SA militias. Many listed targets were killed. Some...
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    continued after the 1939 Invasion of Poland as commander of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz ('German Self-Defense') organization in what was to become the...
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    in Poland Special Prosecution Book-Poland Intelligenzaktion Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Neuburger, Otto (1944) [1943]. "Gazettes of the Länder and Reichsgaue"...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    negligible. There was also a German storm brigade known as the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz formed by the German minority in Poland. Many of its members...
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    preceding the impeding invasion, when a number of them joined the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, participated in the preparation of Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    would assist by engaging in diversion and sabotage operations by Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz units that had been prepared before the war. All three assaults...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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    Holocaust – of ethnic cleansing – was realised by the paramilitary Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz an ethnic-German, self-defence militia commanded by Ludolf von...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian...
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