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Forest Protection Command

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The Forestry Protection Service (German: Forstschutzkommando), later the Forest Protection Corps (German: Forstschutzkorps), was an armed and uniformed paramilitary force created by the General Government responsible for defending forests in Poland from sabotage, for patrolling forests to prevent their use by the Polish resistance, and for tracking Jews hiding in forests.[1][2] Formed in 1939, and composed of ethnic German residents of Poland, in 1943 it was renamed the Forest Protection Corps.[2]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Benz, Wolfgang (1997). Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus. Klett-Cotta. ISBN 3423330074.
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