File talk:115th Battalion of Ukrainian Shuma 1943.jpg
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Schuma?
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The persons in the picture are dressed in German police uniforms, not Schuma uniforms. I believe they are members of a Ukraine Polizei-Schützen-Bataillon. These were not organized until the spring of 1943, but the source [1] does not have any dates, although it claims that these are Schuma. Creuzbourg (talk) 17:24, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
![[1]](http://i.io.ua/img_su/small/0010/03/00100347_n7.jpg){kind=link}
- Maybe this could help. It's a quote from the article where the image is used. Poeticbent talk 05:31, 30 November 2014 (UTC)
The actual Security Battalions (or Schumas, German: Schutzmannschaft Bataillone) comprised only one-third of the overall strength of the formation.[1] As a matter of course, the static police wore black uniforms from the pre-war German stock which was no longer used and kept in storage. The black uniforms of the former Allgemeine-SS including their characteristic field caps were simply stripped of German insignia and given to Schutzmannschaft to use with the new patches. Gradually, the mobile units were issued field-grey uniforms (picured).[2]
- ↑ Martin Dean (2003) Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 60 ISBN: 1403963711.
- ↑ Gordon Williamson (2012) German Security and Police Soldier 1939-45, Osprey Publishing, p. 44 ISBN: 1782000070.
