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    Selbstschutz (German for "self-protection") is the name given to different iterations of ethnic-German self-protection units formed both after the First...
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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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    Poles and Jews murdered in October and November 1939 by the local German Selbstschutz and the Gestapo. The murders were a part of Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania...
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    intellectual elite in Bydgoszcz, with the main executor being the paramilitary Selbstschutz. During the first four months of the occupation, the Germans murdered...
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    Multifunctional Self protection System (MUSS, ‹See Tfd›German: Multifunktionales Selbstschutz-System) is a soft kill active protection system developed to protect...
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    Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, an ethnic German paramilitary unit. He reported directly to his namesake and Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz commander, Ludolf-Hermann...
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    structures of Selbstschutz were established – a paramilitary formation of members of the German minority in the region. The head of Selbstschutz in Grudziądz...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian...
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    paramilitary groups functioning as police called Selbstschutz ("Self-protection"). German colonists and Selbstschutz forces engaged in extensive acts of ethnic...
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    Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz Sonderdienst Non-German Schutzmannschaft (Belarusian, Estonian, Latvian...
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