a Security Police unit, composed almost exclusively from members of the OUN(b) [pl; ru; uk], who were transported from Vinnytsia to Neuhammer on 13 August 1941 and disarmed at gunpoint due to political disagreement with the German leadership.

[3] According to historian John-Paul Himka no one has specifically studied the activities of Schuma 201 in relation to the destruction of the Jewish population.

But we do know – wrote Himka – that the Germans routinely used the Schuma battalions in Belarus both to fight partisans and to murder Jews.

[4][5] Battalion 201 numbered 650 persons, most of whom belonged to Stepan Bandera’s wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

German-Polish historian Professor Frank Golczewski (University of Hamburg)[9] describes the activities of the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201 in Belarus as "fighting partisans and killing Jews".

[5][11] David R. Marples notes that Wiktor Poliszczuk claimed that Schutzmannschaft Battalion 201 in Belarus completed brutal pacification of Belarusian villages, and the men had experience with elimination of the Jewish population; however he also describes Poliszczuk's book as a polemic, written from the Soviet perspective, and one-sided.