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The fight against insurgents in the theatre of operations is a central aspect in the history of the SS Cavalry Brigade. It went through three different stages between 1939 and 1942: operations against the Polish underground during the first two years of its existence, deployment in Belorussia during the summer of 1941 (where partisan warfare was only a small part of its actual task), and the fight against organised Soviet partisans in the Toropets area in 1941–2. As not all squadrons of the two cavalry regiments were used against guerrillas in Poland, and the units were not generally combat-ready during the first two years of the war, this chapter focuses on the missions of the brigade from mid-1941 onwards.

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Pieper, H. (2015). Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union. In: Fegelein’s Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456335_6

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