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spidge · 30-04-2007, 03:05 AM

Organizational Histories

Quite interesting reading. There is part of an example listed below which is quite extensive:

Obscure Combat Formations of the SS

Wilddiebkommando Orienburg

Sonderkommando Dr. Dirlewanger (Jul 1940)

SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger (1 Sep 1940)

SS-Regiment Dirlewanger (Sep 1943)

SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (19 Dec 1944)

36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (14 Feb 1945

10 Apr 1940 Ordered formed at Sachsenhausen concentration camp pursuant to Hitler's wish to form a unit of convicted poachers for service at the front as "Poacher Command Orienburg" Jun 1940 began formation at company strength
Sep 1940 transferred to Poland and attached to SSPF Lublin
29 Jan 1942 assigned to Kommandostab SS-Reichsführer for refitting for service in Russia
10 Feb 1942 transferred to Russia and attached to HSSPF C (later HSSPF Russland-Mitte, General-Kommissariat Weissruthenien) for anti-partisan duties
Apr 1942 antipartisan operations under Polizei-Regiment Mitte with Polizei-Bataillone 32, 307
Jul 1942 - Apr 1944 various anti-partisan operations

Read more of this unit at the site.

30-04-2007, 03:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,054	Obscure Combat Formations of the SS Organizational Histories Quite interesting reading. There is part of an example listed below which is quite extensive: Obscure Combat Formations of the SS Wilddiebkommando Orienburg Sonderkommando Dr. Dirlewanger (Jul 1940) SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger (1 Sep 1940) SS-Regiment Dirlewanger (Sep 1943) SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (19 Dec 1944) 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (14 Feb 1945 10 Apr 1940 Ordered formed at Sachsenhausen concentration camp pursuant to Hitler's wish to form a unit of convicted poachers for service at the front as "Poacher Command Orienburg" Jun 1940 began formation at company strength Sep 1940 transferred to Poland and attached to SSPF Lublin 29 Jan 1942 assigned to Kommandostab SS-Reichsführer for refitting for service in Russia 10 Feb 1942 transferred to Russia and attached to HSSPF C (later HSSPF Russland-Mitte, General-Kommissariat Weissruthenien) for anti-partisan duties Apr 1942 antipartisan operations under Polizei-Regiment Mitte with Polizei-Bataillone 32, 307 Jul 1942 - Apr 1944 various anti-partisan operations Read more of this unit at the site. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm