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  • #16
    Originally posted by raketenjagdpanzer View Post
    Didn't the Germans build a couple of divisions out of Ukrainian police late in WWII
    Yes, they had lots of rear-area security units that found themselves in the front line. Some were Ukrainian, some were Baltic, some were Russian, as well as every other nationality they found to recruit from. These would have division numbers, but next to nothing in heavy weapons and artillery. Their combat careers were typically short and inglorious.

    FWIW, one of the Waffen-SS divisions was named "Polizei" and was formed at least in part from SS members who had been policemen. IIRC, this division went East in 1941 or 1942, and lost its all-cop quantity.
    My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.

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    • #17
      Leg, thanks for posting that info. I've never moved beyond v1, so this is all new to me. I have no idea what the numbers and specialized terms mean, but it's good to know that someone thought this through.
      “We’re not innovating. We’re selectively imitating.” June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.

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