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The Nordland's two Panzergrenadier regiments were also given titles that were meant to reference the countries of origin of their respective recruits, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 23 Norge (Norway) and SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 Danmark (Denmark), however, at the time of the division's arrival on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1943 ...
The SS Regiment Nordland, along with its commander Fritz von Scholz, were removed from the division and used as the nucleus for the new SS Division Nordland. The Finnish Volunteer Battalion was also withdrawn and they were replaced by the Estonian Battalion Narwa .
On 25 April, Krukenberg was appointed the commander of (Berlin) Defence Sector C which included SS Division Nordland, whose previous commander, Joachim Ziegler, was relieved of his command earlier the same day. [12] Charlemagne was attached to Nordland whose two regiments had been decimated in the fighting. Both equaled roughly a battalion. [12]
Formed from Wiking's 'Nordland' Regiment, [63] mostly Volksdeutsche Balkan personnel. [64] Also included Norwegians in SS-Volunteer-Panzer-Grenadier Regiment 23 "Norge" [65] 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) March 1943 [61] Bosnian Muslims with some Catholic Croats, Albanian Muslims [66] and German cadres. [67 ...
All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. [1] Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally recruited from those groups. Many of the higher-numbered units were divisions in name only, being in reality only small battlegroups ( Kampfgruppen ).
11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland" 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" ... Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS (1st Romanian) (1944) Free ...
The corps was formed in April 1943 as a headquarters for the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Wiking" and the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Nordland".The corps was placed under the control of former Wiking commander SS-Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner.
After the invasion of Poland in 1939, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, sought to expand the Waffen-SS with "Germanic" volunteers from other countries. The enrollment began in April 1940 with the creation of two regiments: the Waffen-SS Regiment Nordland (for Danish, Norwegian and Swedish volunteers), and the Waffen-SS Regiment Westland (for ...