30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Belarusian No. 1)
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30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Belarusian No. 1) |
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 Troop registration |
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| active | August 1944 to January 1945 |
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| Armed forces |
 Armed SS
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| Branch of service | Grenadiers |
| Type | division |
| structure | See outline |
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| list of | Commanders |
The 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Belarusian No. 1) , with the strength of one brigade, was created on March 9, 1945 from the Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS (Belarusian No. 1) and by order of the SS Leadership Main Office was incorporated in April 1945 as SS Police Battalion Siegling in the 38th SS Grenadier Division "Nibelungen" . The members of the unit wore a red and white arm shield on their uniforms. On March 25, 1945 Radaslau Astrouski met with the commanders of the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Belarusian No. 1) in Hirschau . The survivors surrendered in Zwiesel in April 1945 to American troops, who extradited most of the Belarusian relatives to the Soviet Union .
structure
- Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment of the SS 75 (I. - III.)
- Artillery Department
- Panzerjäger department
- Equestrian squadron
commander
- February to May 1945: SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Siegling
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Alexander: Nazi Collaborators, American Intelligence, and the Cold War. The Case of the Byelorussian Central Council. University of Vermont Graduate College Dissertations and Theses, No. 424, 2015, p. 1.
- ↑ Mark Alexander: Nazi Collaborators, American Intelligence, and the Cold War. The Case of the Byelorussian Central Council. University of Vermont Graduate College Dissertations and Theses, No. 424, 2015, pp. 78f.
- ↑ Mark Alexander: Nazi Collaborators, American Intelligence, and the Cold War. The Case of the Byelorussian Central Council. University of Vermont Graduate College Dissertations and Theses, No. 424, 2015, p. 78.