Description

SS Schuma Police Officer Cap Insignia: Schutzmannschaften or Schuma units were formed as auxiliary security police made up from ethnic Germans, trustworthy Soviet citizens, ex-Soviet prisoners of war and conscripts from occupied Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belorussia, Ukraine Transnistria and Kaukasien. These men performed security, police duties, and anti-partisan operations rounding up Jews and guarding concentration camps. Black rayon base from a 50 mm wide roll, machine woven 43 x 33 mm aluminum flatwire insignia, unissued, mint.