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]).