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Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling (Schutzmänner-Brigade Siegling) was a Nazi German auxiliary police brigade formed in 1944 in East Prussia mainly from the retreating units of the collaborationist Byelorussian Home Guard (BKA) escaping successful Soviet counter-attack known as Operation Bagration. The total number of soldiers evacuated by the Nazis to East Prussia from across Belarus during the Soviet advance might have reached 10,000. They regrouped northeast of Warsaw under Hans Siegling who was the SS-and-Police leader of the White Ruthenia. The Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling consisted of 4 rifle regiments as well as artillery and cavalry unit. It was renamed by Himmler on July 31, 1944, as the 30th Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (russische Nr. 2). It consisted of men from the form
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