Police Major Eugen Seim (4 July 1896 in

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– 7 March 1943 in

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) was a Nazi German officer during

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, in charge of the ''Polizei-Battalion No. 83'' of the German Schutzpolizei (or Schupo) involved in mass expulsions of some 18,000–20,000 ethnic

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from the territory of

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at the beginning of Nazi–Soviet occupation of Poland. Seim was born in

and died on the Eastern Front in the

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at the age of 47. He is buried at the military cemetery in Kiev.

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