[1][2] It was formed in 1939 and largely composed of ethnic German residents of Poland.
The civilian population was evacuated, farms and villages were burned to the ground, and two small Jewish communities were annihilated.
Together with Police Battalion 322 the Forstschutzkommando-Abteilung Bialowies[3] entered the villages in the forest, forced the inhabitants to leave within 30 minutes and burned down the houses and other buildings.
Jewish women and children were taken to the ghetto of Kobryn while 584 men and boys were killed outright.
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