403rd_Security_Division
403rd Security Division
Military unit
The 403rd Security Division (403. Sicherungs-Division) was a rear-security division in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany. Throughout the war, the unit was mainly deployed in the Army Group South Rear Area behind the Eastern Front, which was a large, German-occupied area of the Soviet Union. During the whole war, the 403rd Security Division was used throughout the war mainly on the Eastern Front for security tasks in the rear army area, such as capturing scattered Soviet soldiers and commissars.[1][2] Further anti-Semitic measures, such as confiscations, removal of functions, the formation of "purely" Jewish houses, followed.[1]