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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’ or SS Fuhrer Begleit Kommando […]

    SS Colonel Hugo Kraas was born in Witten/the Ruhr in 1911, the eldest of seven sons. He studied to be a teacher but had to drop out and go to work when his father died. He joined the Brownshirts in 1934 and transferred to the army in 1935. Later that year, he joined […]

The SS-Verfügungstruppe, combat support force, or SS-VT was created in 1934 from the merger of various Nazi and right-wing paramilitary formations. Two regiments were formed, in northern Germany the SS-Standarte “Germania”, and in southern Germany SS-Standarte “Deutschland”. In Berlin-Brandenburg they were incorporated into the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. SS-Verfügungstruppe was considered an armed wing of the […]

Wiking Waffen SS Division breaks out Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket.   Following Soviet attacks in the middle of December out of their bridgeheads south of Krementschug and at Tscherkassy, whereby the city of Tscherkassy also fell, they launched a large-scale offensive from out of the Kiev area during the last few days of December. They drove a […]