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During World War II, many residents of Belarus occupied by Nazi Germany being driven by the great variety of motives were drafted to the local auxiliary police (Schutzmannschaften). The total number of which in General District of Belarus accounted for some 30 thousand people in the years 1941-1944. In 1943 the 13th battalion of 1,000 strong auxiliary police SD (Schutzmannschafts Bataillon der SD 13) was formed, a subordinate formation of the Security Service (SD) SS. In years 1943-1944, this formation participated in numerous anti-partisan campaigns and pacification. After the withdrawal from Belarus in the summer of 1944 it took part in the suppression of Warsaw's Uprising and fought together with the Red Army in Poland and the resistance movements in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]