Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz
Ethnic German paramilitary group in Poland where Germans were a minority / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz was an ethnic-German self-protection militia,[1] a paramilitary organization comprising ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) mobilized from among the German minority in Poland.
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Country | Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Soviet Union |
Allegiance | Nazi Germany, the SS |
Type | Paramilitary police reserve |
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The Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz operated before, and during the opening stages of, World War II in the western half of Poland[2] and were responsible for, and took part in, massacres of Poles, along with SS Einsatzgruppen.
The Selbstschutz numbered some 100,000 members, who formed the greater part of the German minority "fit for action".[3]