27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Flemish No. 1)
27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Flemish No. 1) |
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active | October 18, 1944 to May 1945 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Armed SS |
Branch of service | Grenadiers |
Type | division |
structure | See outline |
commander | |
list of | Commanders |
The 27th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "Langemarck" (Flemish No. 1) was created on October 18, 1944 through the renaming of the 6th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Langemarck" , which emerged from the SS Volunteer Association "Nordwest “ Emerged.
description
The division consisted mainly of Flemish volunteers , members of the Vlaamse Wacht , the Algemeene SS (Flemish General SS ) and the Vlaamse Arbeidsdienst, as well as Flemish forced laborers , members of the Todt Organization , the NSKK , the Navy and the Air Force with German support personnel and was mostly attended used on the Eastern Front.
The storm brigade was named "Langemarck" on May 31, 1943. The name of the Flemish village referred to the myth of Langemarck from the First World War .
On May 10, 1945, the survivors of the division in Mecklenburg surrendered to British troops.
structure
- 66th SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment
- SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 67
- SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 68
- SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment 27
- Division units 27
- The division never got beyond brigade strength.
Insinuation
- October 1944 to January 1945: Commander of the reserve army, Lüneburg Heath
- January to April 1945: III. (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps , Pomerania
Commanders
- September to October 1944: SS-Obersturmbannführer Conrad Schellong
- October 1944 to May 2, 1945: SS-Oberführer Thomas Müller
literature
- Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 4. The Land Forces 15–30 . 2nd Edition. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1976, ISBN 3-7648-1083-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gordon Williamson: Die SS. Hitler's Instrument of Power, Kaiser, 2005, p. 245.