Very rare SCHUMA member ID tag - the Auxiliary Police of the Eastern occupied countries that participated in the Holocaust. This ID tag is in very good condition and it has the following text stamped in mirror configuration: "W.r. Schutzm.-F.-Batt. 64 / Nr.394 Fr." That's Schutzmannschaft Freiwilliger Battalion 64, the Voluntary Auxiliary Police Battalion Nr.64. The person who wore this ID tag round his neck was for sure a Holocaust perpetrator and a necessary collaborator that helped the Nazis during their horrible extermination process of the Jewish population in the East.

The Schutzmannschaft or Auxiliary Police abbreviated as Schuma was the collaborationist auxiliary police of native policemen serving in those areas of the Soviet Union and the Baltic states occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler established the Schutzmannschaft on July 25, 1941, and subordinated it to the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei; Orpo). By the end of 1941, some 45,000 men served in Schutzmannschaft units, about half of them in the battalions. During 1942, Schutzmannschaften expanded to an estimated 300,000 men, with battalions accounting for about a third, or less than one half of the local force. Everywhere, local police far outnumbered the equivalent German personnel several times (in most places, the ratio of Germans to natives was about 1-to-10).

The Schutzmannschaften had a reputation for their auxiliary police battalions (Schutzmannschaft-Bataillonen). Created to support the German offensive, in particular by combating the anti-Nazi resistance, many of these battalions participated in the Holocaust and caused thousands of Jewish deaths. Usually the battalions were voluntary units and were not directly involved in combat. In total, about 200 battalions were formed. Each battalion had an authorized strength of about 500, but the actual size varied greatly. They should not be confused with native German police battalions (SS-Polizei-Bataillone) which the Order Police formed between 1939 and 1945 and which also participated in the Holocaust.

The Order Police organized the Schutzmannschaften by nationality (Lithuanian Auxiliary Police, Latvian Auxiliary Police, Estonian Auxiliary Police, Belarusian Auxiliary Police, and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police).