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The
Forest Protection Command
(
German
:
Forstschutzkommando
), later the
Forest Protection Corps
(German:
Forstschutzkorps
), was an armed and uniformed
paramilitary
force created by the
General Government
which was responsible for defending forests in
Poland
from sabotage and for patrolling forests to prevent their use by the
Polish resistance
.
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[2]
It was formed in 1939 and largely composed of ethnic German residents of Poland.
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War Crimes
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In July 1941, the FSK took control of the
Bialowieza Forest
. The civilian population was evacuated, farms and villages were burned to the ground, and two small Jewish communities were annihilated. Together with
Police Battalion 322
the
Forstschutzkommando-Abteilung Bialowies
[3]
entered the villages in the forest, forced the inhabitants to leave within 30 minutes and burned down the houses and other buildings. Seven thousand people were deported and 34 villages destroyed. Jewish women and children were taken to the ghetto of
Kobryn
while 584 men and boys were killed outright.
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Rank insignia
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Equivalent Rank
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Rank in FSK
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Rank insignia
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Grenadier
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Forstschutze
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Gefreiter
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Rottenfuhrer
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Obergefreiter
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Oberrottenfuhrer
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Unteroffizier
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Scharfuhrer
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Unterfeldwebel
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Oberscharfuhrer
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Feldwebel
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Truppfuhrer
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Oberfeldwebel
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Obertruppfuhrer
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Senior ranks
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Ranks and insignia of the Forest Service
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Source:
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See also
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References
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Littlejohn, David (1987).
Foreign Legions of the Third Reich: Poland, the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Rumania, Free India, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Russia
. Bender. pp. 19?21.
ISBN
091213836X
.
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a
b
Benz, Wolfgang (1997).
Enzyklopadie des Nationalsozialismus
[
Encyclopedia of National Socialism
] (in German). Klett-Cotta.
ISBN
3423330074
.
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Blood, Philip W. (2021).
Birds of Prey.
ibidem-Verlag, p. 323.
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Mohnhaupt, Jan Wolf (2022).
Animals under the Swaztika.
University of Wisconsin Press, p. 105.
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Saris, Wilhelm P.B.R.; de Wolf, Mathieu (2008). "Forstschutzkommando: A sub-organization of the Reichsforstmeister".
The Military Advisor
. pp. 27, 34.
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