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Waffen-SS brigades. 1st SS Infantry Brigade. 2nd SS Infantry Brigade. 3rd Estonian SS Volunteer Brigade. 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade "Nederland". 5th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Wallonien", see Walloon Legion. 6th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Langemarck". Assault Brigade "Reichsführer SS".
Many of the higher-numbered units were divisions in name only, being in reality only small battlegroups (Kampfgruppen). As a general rule, an "SS Division" is made up of mostly Germans, or other Germanic people, while a "Division of the SS" is made up of mostly non-Germanic volunteers.
The Waffen-SS units involved were the 11th SS Nordland, 20th SS Estonian, 23rd SS Nederland, 27th SS Langemark, and 28th SS Wallonien Divisions all in the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps and the X SS Corps, which did not command any SS units.
Waffen-SS (Siły Zbrojne SS) – zbrojne oddziały niemieckiej nazistowskiej formacji paramilitarnej Schutzstaffel (SS), niezależne od regularnej armii i policji. Oficjalnie nazwa „Waffen-SS” obejmująca wszystkie te oddziały funkcjonowała od 1940 roku.
2 paź 2024 · List of Waffen-SS divisions. All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. [1] Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally recruited from those groups. Many of the higher-numbered units were divisions in name only, being in reality only small battlegroups (Kampfgruppen).
20 sie 2024 · Waffen-SS forces included 24 volunteer infantry battalions from the SS Division Nordland, the SS Division Langemarck, the SS Division Nederland, and the Walloon Legion. Roughly half of the infantry consisted of the personnel of the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS.
The Waffen-SS was the military branch of the SS. Units of the Waffen-SS took part in most of the major military campaigns of World War II. They were heavily involved in the commission of the Holocaust through their participation in mass shootings, anti-partisan warfare, and in supplying guards for Nazi concentration camps They were also ...
