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in 1944, with only the staff and supply troops retreating north. In August 1944, it returned to rear-area security operations and spent the rest of its existence in the rear area of the
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for execution, while suffering 8 dead and 25 wounded itself. Only 99 weapons (rifles, machine-guns and pistols) were seized. In early 1943, the division carried out operations
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In September 1942 the division reported killing 864 "partisans in combat" and handed over 245 individuals to the Wehrmacht's
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The division was formed in June 1942 on the basis of the 201st Security Brigade. The brigade had been deployed on the
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The division was sent to front-line duty in February 1943. The unit was largely destroyed during the Soviet
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–-1945
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German Order of Battle: 1st-290th Infantry Divisions in World War II
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Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
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Index

201st Security Division (Wehrmacht)

Nazi Germany
Army (Wehrmacht)
Security division
Division
World War II
German Army
rear-area security division
World War II
Soviet Union
Eastern Front
Operation Barbarossa
Army Group Centre
Einsatzgruppe B
Vitebsk
Polotsk
Belarus
communications
supply lines
partisans
Secret Field Police
Red Army
Operation Bagration
Army Group North
War crimes of the Wehrmacht


Mitcham 2007
Megargee 2009

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