Waffen-SS
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943
Part of the Final Solution-the genocide of Europe’s Jews in the Holocaust-involved the establishment of ghettos in German-occupied territories in which Jews were confined until they could be dispatched to concentration and extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto, within the city’s old Jewish quarter, was enclosed first by barbed wire and later by a brick wall. By summer 1942, about half…
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Hitler’s Boy Soldiers in Normandy Part II
The Germans were now forced to commit their last reserves to stem the tide, but on June 27, the British advance resumed. The Commonwealth soldiers managed to capture Hill 112 the next day. The Germans clung on for a while but then withdrew, and by the 29th the British had…
VOLKSSTURM I
Soldiers of the Volkssturm man a trench system in the late months of the war, armed mainly with World War l-vintage rifles. The price paid by the Volkssturm for their last-ditch defence of the Reich is unclear, but the number of those killed or captured would potentially reach 175,000. The…
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend -training
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend went into battle for the first time in Normandy, but gave a good account of itself as the scourge of Canadian arms throughout the Normandy campaign. Derisively called a baby division with a milk-bottle badge by a disparaging Allied press, the division had been…
Volkssturm
In his new capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Replacement Army, Himmler was able to extend his policing powers to the military sphere. Hitler gave him full authority to ‘establish order’ in the areas behind the fighting zone and sent him, at the beginning of September, to the western border region…
German Units identified at the Battle of Berlin. April-May 1945.
56th Panzer Corps:20th Panzer Grenadier Division18th Panzer Grenadier Division9th Fallschirmjager DivisionMuncheberg Panzer Division11th SS Panzer Grenadier Division ’Nordland’15th SS Grenadier Division’Latvian No 1’ (SS Volunteers)33rd SS Grenadier Division’Charlemagne’? (SS Volunteers)Sturmgeshultz Brigades; 249, 243, Stug-Lehr-Brig.I, II, III.Guard Regiment’Grossdeutschland’ (2 Battalions)SS Chancellery Guard Battalion-this unit designated either Wachtbattalion (mot) ‘Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler’…
The Backbone of Der Deutscher Volkssturm: The Hitler Youth in WWII.
Compiled by A.M. de Quesada In order for a regime to survive time, there must be support for it in future generations. Hitler was well aware of this and planned for it. The Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth) was Hitler’s tool to ensure that the younger generation would be totally loyal to…