Naval Shock Company

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The Naval Shock Troop Company, MSK for short, was a special unit of the German Reich's Navy , which existed from 1938 until the end of the Second World War . It was the High Command of the Navy placed to the since the First World War existing Marines to expand dressings to a special unit.

history

In the spring of 1938 the III stationed in Swinoujscie was . Marine artillery department instructed to assign hand-picked marines for training at special schools of the Wehrmacht , in order to form the new core team of a planned special unit after completing special courses. This unit's intended missions should be dangerous or complicated landing operations or surprise attacks . The 4th platoon of the first Marine Infantry Company was set up as the first naval shock troop company.

As early as September 1938, a reinforced MSK platoon led by Lieutenant Walter Schug was loaded onto the ironclad Germany for a mission in Spain , in order to blow up a radio station in Ibiza .

The next mission followed in March 1939 as part of the "return of the Memelland into the German Reich ". A few weeks later, the relocation took place under the command of Lieutenant W. Henningsen from Swinoujscie to Memel in order to intensify the special training. The situation with Poland came to a head because of the Danzig question . The MSK was brought to the Westerplatte ; this mission should be the most important. The MSK occupied Gdynia and the Hela peninsula during the following days . Further missions in northern Russia followed.

This unit existed until the end of the war on May 8, 1945.

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Literature and Sources

  • Jörg Benz, Itzehoe Eigenarchiv war reporter recordings.
  • Bertil Stjernfelt, Klaus-Richard Böhme: Vägen till Westerplatte. Military History Avdelingen - Military Högskolan, Kristianstad 1978 ( Military History Study 2, ZDB -ID 764990-3 = Marinlitteraturföreningen 65), (German: Westerplatte 1939. Rombach, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1979, ISBN 3-7930-0182-2 ( individual publications on military history of the Second World War 23)).
  • Jörg Benz: German Marine Infantry 1938–1945. The fate of the naval shock troops, the MAA 531 (von Diest) and other infantry deployed units of the navy. According to KTBs, official and personal battle reports and representations by military historians. Husum Printing and Publishing Society, Husum 1996, ISBN 3-88042-799-2 .
  • Otto Mielke , Uwe Greve: Liner "Schleswig-Holstein". A ship in two world wars. Maximilian-Verlag, Hamburg 1996 ( ships, people, fates 4th year, 31, ZDB -ID 1325248-3 ).

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