Tank training association Baltic Sea

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The Panzerausbildungsverband Ostsee was a short-lived armored combat unit of the Wehrmacht during the Second World War .

history

The tank training association Baltic Sea was set up on March 28, 1945 from members of various training units of the tank troops and remnants of other associations in the Prenzlau area. Even before training and deployment were complete and before the planned brigade strength had been reached, the unit was relocated to the Oder front near Stettin in April 1945 . During battles with the Red Army , the unit was severely decimated. The rest of them ended up in Soviet captivity.

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945. Volume 14. The Land Forces. Name associations. The air force. Flying bandages. Flak deployment in the Reich 1943–1945. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1980, ISBN 3-7648-1111-0 .