Freikorps Sauerland

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The Sauerland Freikorps was formed in September 1944 by Gauleiter Albert Hoffmann . It was a paramilitary association that was subordinated to the Volkssturm in October 1944 with the consent of the party chancellery under Martin Bormann . Hoffmann saw the Sauerland Freikorps as an " elite association " in his Gau Westfalen-Süd .

In April 1945 units of the Sauerland Freikorps were deployed in the Ruhr basin and some suffered heavy losses. The Sauerland Freikorps was involved in the heavy fighting in Olsberg and Altenbüren in the Brilon district . A member of the unit shot eight slave laborers in Erwitte on Easter Sunday 1945 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DGB brochure commemorating p. 48

literature

  • Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 - reports from many employees from all over the district. Josefs-Druckerei, Bigge 1955.
  • Ralf Blank : The end of the war and the “home front” in Westphalia. In: Westfälische Forschungen 55 (2005), pp. 361-421.
  • Willy Timm : Freikorps "Sauerland". South Westphalia last contingent in 1944/45. Unna 1993.

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