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The Hangman Regiment was a regiment within the Third Division of the USE Army. It was organized by Mike Stearns after Finnish auxiliary cavalry attached to the division had committed atrocities in the Polish city of Świebodzin, to ensure that there would be no repeats of that.[1]

The regiment, commanded by Jeff Higgins, was a CoC hotbed. It had no artillery, but did have Thorsten Engler's volley gun unit, which had been used to execute those responsible for the Świebodzin incident.

Aside from its "special duty", the Hangman became known as a crack combat unit after its involvement in the Battle of Zielona Góra . At the Battle of Ostra, members of the regiment carried effigies of Johan Banér hanging from nooses.

The Hangman would later be re-organized into a full brigade of roughly 3,000 troops, the Silesian Guard.

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