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SS-Junker School at Bad Tölz, 1942. SS-Junker Schools (German SS-Junkerschulen) were leadership training facilities for officer candidates of the Schutzstaffel (SS). The term Junkerschulen was introduced by Nazi Germany in 1937, although the first facilities were established at Bad Tölz and Braunschweig in 1934 and 1935.
A Kriegsschule was a general military school used for basic officer training and higher education in Germany starting in as early as the 17th century. [1] There have been many Kriegsakademies ( War academy ), ' Kriegsschulen' (War Schools), or even Ritterakademies ( Knight academy ) in Germany.
The German Army is commanded by the Inspector of the Army (Inspekteur des Heeres) based at the Army Command (Kommando Heer) in Strausberg near Berlin. The training centers are supervised by the Army Training Command in Leipzig. The Army's combat formations comprise two Panzer (armoured) divisions and the lighter Rapid Forces Division. There are ...
The German Army (German: Heer, German: ⓘ; lit. ' army ') was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, [b] the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. [4]
The training schools are subordinated to the Army Office.The commander of all training schools is the Deputy Head of the Army Office. Most of the German Army training schools are responsible for the continuation training of a specific arm of service.
It was the first of two major schools set up by the German Panzerwaffe before World War II to train German armour officers to operate Panzers. The Panzertruppenschule was a 'branch school', where officer candidates were sent after 12–16 weeks spent in basic training, and having successfully undertaken an 8-week course at a Kriegsschule.
Installations of the German Air Force (3 C, 11 P) M. Military training areas in Germany (2 C, 11 P) N. NATO installations in Germany (5 P) T.
View from the Nazi Ordensburg of Vogelsang into the valley. The basis of the subsequent military training area was the Nazi Ordensburg Vogelsang.This training centre is the second largest relic of Nazi infrastructure in Germany by area after their party congress site in Nuremberg and covered an area of some 100 hectares.