NARA Rolls about SS-Div. Wiking, info needed

[Joda]

Hi all,

What are the NARA rolls for SS Division Wiking? I suppose all part of T354...

Many thanks in advance

[MLW]

According to NARA's collection guide there are only two rolls Wiking's KTB - T-354 Rolls 161 and 639.

[Joda]

thnaks a lot!

[RichD-M]

According to NARA's collection guide there are only two rolls Wiking's KTB - T-354 Rolls 161 and 639.

I believe one of these rolls is the KTB for the "Germania" Regiment? Do you know what time period it runs from until?

Cheers

[MLW]

The guides states:

la, Ila/b, W.u.G., Divisionsbefehle, Meldunqen, Weisunqen und Merkblatt. Orders, instructions, and
reports pertaining to the organization of the SS Division "Germania"; personnel matters; family support;
unit vehicle identity marks; instruction pamphlet on the' handling of ammunition; redesiqnaticn of the SS
Division "Germania" as SS Division "Wikinq" by order of the Fuehrer (Hitler), 1 Jan 19U1; and a time table of a
command conference in Lauenburq, Germany, 15-16 Apr 1942.

1940/12/05-1941/01/01

[RichD-M]

Thanks, that clarifies that; I believe none of the divisional or regimental KTB survived the war.

[PK]

The KTBs for SS-Pz.Rgt.5, II./SS-Rgt. "Westland" and III./SS-Rgt."Nordland" survived the war. The KTB for SS-Pz.Gren.Rgt.Germania is lost in space.

[smetanin albert]

here is an extract from Freiburg (from the catalog)

[smetanin albert]

additionally

[Charles Trang]

Wiking's divisional KTB was retrieved by a French soldier belonging to the 2.DB when the latter captured the Berghof. A few years ago, I tried to find his trace via the 2.DB vets association, but to no avail.

[Cadmos]

The German "Bundesarchiv" digitized several Wiking documents (high res, color, no watermarks). Just click on "Digitalisat anzeigen" here:

https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio ... fc280f7f1/

Additionally, the whole T354 series has also been digitized and is available on the US National Archive site:

https://catalog.archives.gov/search?ava ... naId%3Aasc

One thing, does someone know what rolls contain Wiking’s Knight’s Cross recommendation texts, like these ones (I would like to read the German originals):

https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/282 ... Wiking.htm
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/298 ... -Georg.htm

The source says: Microfilm Publication A3343. But what NARA roll are these on?

[Mori]

The source says: Microfilm Publication A3343. But what NARA roll are these on?

Some of these are available on this site: http://wwiidigitalarchives.org/hello-world

A couple of contributors of this forum collect them and make a business of reselling samples to people like you.

[smetanin albert]

Unfortunately,
the best (interesting) collection has not been digitized.

This is the so-called "Vopersal collection".

[smetanin albert]

I forgot to say that
the information about the losses located in the WASt(Berlin-Reinickendorf) will not be available to ordinary researchers (and online)!

[Mori]

This is the so-called "Vopersal collection".

I had samples of this Vopersal collection. It's a hodgepot of documents collected by an author of hagiographic books on various units. Although it's kind of interesting to have a look, any serious scholar will refer to the original, primary sources instead. A minor part of the Vopersal consists of privately-published veteran letters, which can otherwhise be difficult to find, but which also have too strong biaises to be used alone.