Russian Brigade 599 (Wehrmacht)

The Russian Brigade 599 (also known as the 599th (Russian) Brigade ) was a German infantry brigade during World War II .

history

The brigade was set up from Russian volunteers in Aalborg , Denmark , in the area of the Wehrmacht commander in Denmark, and reached a strength of approx. 13,000 men. The unit was relocated to Viborg on April 16, 1945 and was to become part of a third Russian infantry division of General Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army . Shortly before the end of the war, the brigade was at the Oxbüll military training area near Glücksburg.

structure

Grenadier Regiment 1604 (Russian) formed from the Russian Grenadier Regiment 714
Grenadier Regiment 1605 (Russian) formed from the Russian Brigade 499
Grenadier Regiment 1607 (Caucasian) formed from the Russian Brigade 499
Artillery Department 1599

commander

Major General Wilhelm von Henning (1887–1969), former commander of the volunteer trunk division

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 , pp. 88-90.
Antonio J. Muñoz, Darko Pavlović: Hitler's Green Army: The German Order Police and their European Auxiliaries, 1933–1945, Volume I “Western Europe & Scandinavia”. Europa Books, ISBN 1-8912-2766-1 , p. 50 and p. 106.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Franz Wilhelm Seidler: Avant-garde for Europe: Foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS . Pour le Mérite Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-932381-26-3 , p. 283 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).
↑ Joachim Hoffmann: The history of the Vlasov army . Rombach, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7930-0186-7 , pp. 95 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).
↑ Holger Piening: When the weapons fell silent: the internment of the Wehrmacht soldiers between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea in 1945/46 . Boyens & Company, 1996, ISBN 978-3-8042-0761-5 , pp. 95 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).
^ Franz Wilhelm Seidler: Avant-garde for Europe: Foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS . Pour le Mérite Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-932381-26-3 , p. 196 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).

[:0-1] A ^b Franz Wilhelm Seidler: Avant-garde for Europe: Foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS . Pour le Mérite Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-932381-26-3 , p. 283 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).

[2] Joachim Hoffmann: The history of the Vlasov army . Rombach, 1984, ISBN 978-3-7930-0186-7 , pp. 95 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).

[3] Holger Piening: When the weapons fell silent: the internment of the Wehrmacht soldiers between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea in 1945/46 . Boyens & Company, 1996, ISBN 978-3-8042-0761-5 , pp. 95 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).

[4] Franz Wilhelm Seidler: Avant-garde for Europe: Foreign volunteers in the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS . Pour le Mérite Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-932381-26-3 , p. 196 ( google.de [accessed December 25, 2018]).