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| rdfs:label | - Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz
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| rdfs:comment | - The Self Defense units were reintroduced during the late 1930s in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Self Defense activists worked to indoctrinate ethnic Germans and commit acts of terrorism against the Czech population in the Sudetenland. In Silesia, Selbstschutz militia were active on the German side of the Polish/German conflicts in the area. In 1921, its organized units resisted the Polish rebellion in the Third Silesian Uprising; which was aimed at seceding Upper Silesia from Germany. In the interwar period German minority organizations in Poland such as Jungdeutsche Partei(the young German party), Deutsche Vereinigung(United German), Deutscher Volksbund(German Race Union) and Deutscher Volksverband(German Race United) actively cooperated with Nazi Germany through espionage, sabotage, provoca
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| abstract | - The Self Defense units were reintroduced during the late 1930s in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Self Defense activists worked to indoctrinate ethnic Germans and commit acts of terrorism against the Czech population in the Sudetenland. In Silesia, Selbstschutz militia were active on the German side of the Polish/German conflicts in the area. In 1921, its organized units resisted the Polish rebellion in the Third Silesian Uprising; which was aimed at seceding Upper Silesia from Germany. In the interwar period German minority organizations in Poland such as Jungdeutsche Partei(the young German party), Deutsche Vereinigung(United German), Deutscher Volksbund(German Race Union) and Deutscher Volksverband(German Race United) actively cooperated with Nazi Germany through espionage, sabotage, provocations and political indoctrination. They maintained close contact with and were directed by the NSDAP (Nazi Party), Auslandsorganisation,(Foreign Affairs Organization) Gestapo (Secret Police), SD (Security Service)and Abwehr(Defense ). It is estimated that 25% of the German minority in Poland were members of these organisations. Main article: Special Prosecution Book-Poland By October 1938, SD agents were organizing the Selbstschutz in Poland. Ethnic Germans with Polish citizenship were trained in the Third Reich in various sabotage methods and guerilla tactics. Even before the war, Selbstschutz activists from Poland helped to organize lists of Poles who later were to be arrested or executed in Operation Tannenberg -Special Prosecution Book-Poland (germ.Sonderfahndungsbuch Polen).
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