Was the 63. SS-Standarte Württemberg Süd in Reutlingen part of the Politische Bereitschaft Württemberg, which was also stationed in Reutlingen, or were these units not connected?Die Politische Bereitschaft Württemberg, bekannt als PBW, wurde im Mai 1933 im SS Oberabschnitt Südwest gegründet, mit auf Kompaniegröße angewachsenen Teilen in den württembergischen Städten Oberndorf, Reutlingen und Trossingen.
63. SS-Standarte Württemberg Süd...
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Re: 63. SS-Standarte Württemberg Süd...
The Standarte was Allegemeine SS The politische Bereitschaft were part of what became the Waffen SS
Phil Nix
Phil Nix
Re: 63. SS-Standarte Württemberg Süd...
Offcourse! So if I try to see a line in his movements...Phil Nix wrote:The Standarte was Allegemeine SS The politische Bereitschaft were part of what became the Waffen SS
Phil Nix
15. April 1933 - joined the Allgemeine SS (a friend at school told him it would be "good preparation for a career in the army")
1. Mai 1933 - joined the NSDAP (mandatory?)
6. Juli 1933 - listed with 4. Sturm, 79. SS-Standarte (SS-Sturmführer Fritz Teufel) in Ulm
3. März 1934 - Abitur and wants a professional military career
12. Mai 1934 - listed with II. Sturmbann, 63. SS-Standarte (also SS-Obersturmführer Fritz Teufel) in Reutlingen
Rejected by the Reichswehr in Ulm and decided on a career in the SS
3. Oktober 1934 - joins the Politischen Bereitschaft Württemberg in Reutlingen. At that moment the PBW is transformed into the III. Sturmbann, SS-Standarte 2 VT (order for the transformation is dated 1. Oktober 1934)
It all adds up to somebody who could not join the army, got tipped in the Allgemeine SS that they were building an army out of the SS so he choose for a career in the soon to be formed SS-VT instead, or do I miss something?