Members of the 8th SS Cavalry Division during Anti-Partisan action in the Soviet Union, Mai 1943.
In 1941, the unit murdered over 14,000 Jews in the Pripyat Swamps, followed by 7800 near Minsk.
The unit's name, Florian Geyer, stems from an old German folk hero, who lead a Heavy Cavalry Company during the Peasant's War in the 16th century and is usually associated with Socialists and Communists.