List of SS (/SS-Polizei) units in Yugoslavia

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List of SS (/SS-Polizei) units in Yugoslavia

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 08 Oct 2005, 16:25

Please help me make a list of SS & SD units which operated in Yugoslavia 1941-1945.
(including Srem, Banat & Bačka regions)

Waffen-SS units:
01. SS-Panzer-Division "Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler" (IV 1941) + (IX - X 1943)
02. SS-Panzer-Division "Das Reich" (IV 1941)
07. SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs Division "Prinz Eugen" (III 1942 - V 1945)
08. SS-Kavallerie-Division "Florian Geyer" (IX 1943 - III 1944)
11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland" (IX - XI 1943)
13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Handschar" (II 1943 - XI 1944)
16. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer-SS" (X 1943 - I 1944)
18. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Horst Wessel" (I - VI 1944)
21. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Skanderbeg" (IV - XI 1944)
23. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Kama" (VI - X 1944)
23. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzegrenadier-Division "Nederland" (IX 1943 - ?) as Brigade
24. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Karstjäger" (VIII 1944 - ?)
31. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division "Batschka" (X 1944 - ?)
SS-Fallschirmjäger-Bataillon

SS-Polizei units:
04. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "SS-Polizei" (X 1944)
SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment-18

Foreign-volunteer-units:
Srpski Gestapo (SD unit) (VI 1942 - IV 1943)
Rußische Schutzkorps in Serbien (IX 1941 - V 1945)
XV Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps (I - V 1945)
369. (Kroatische) Infanterie-Division "Teufels-Division" (? - V 1945)
373. (Kroatische) Infanterie-Division "Tiger-Division" (I 1943 - V 1945)
392. (Kroatische) Infanterie-Division "Blaue Division" (VIII 1943 - V 1945)

This is just for a start.

Some sources also mention next Waffen-SS divisions:

05. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking"
14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Galizien"
15. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Lettland"
19. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Latvia"
20. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Estland"
???

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Post by G. Trifkovic » 08 Oct 2005, 18:04

Komshija,

would you consider adding Kammerhofer`s German-Croatian police regiments?

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... highlight=
Other German Police groundforces that served in "Yugoslavia" were:
- SS Police Regiment 5 (formed in Belgrade, Serbia on July 9, 1942); this regiment had a large number of ethnic German Serbs. It served in Serbia from 1942-1944 and in Croatia from late 1944-1945.
- SS Police Regiment 6 served for a short period of time near Vinkovci, Croatia in November 1944.
- After the destruction of the original SS Police Regiment 9 in January 1945, the "new" regiment was formed in northern Slovenia from SS Police Regiment "Alpenvorland". It appears the regiment had only one battalion by wars end.
- SS Police Regiment 10 served in Slovenia from August 1944 fighting Partizans.
- SS Police Regiment 13 served in central Slovenia from August 1944 - March 1945.
- SS Police Regiment 14 served in Croatia (Karlovac-Ogulin area) from September 1943 - early 1944, and in Slovenia from early 1944 - March 1945.
- SS Police Regiment 19 was formed in Slovenia in July 1942 and served there until June 1944.
- One battalion of the SS Police Regiment 24 (the 3rd) aparently served in Slovenia in early 1943.
- SS Police Regiment 25 served in Slovenia from August 1944 - March 1945.
- SS Police Regiment 28 "Todt" served in Slovenia from February 1944.

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 08 Oct 2005, 18:26

Yes, I was looking for something like that as well.

Thanks, komšo!

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Post by Marc Rikmenspoel » 08 Oct 2005, 19:24

The III./Germania, from 5. SS-Panzer Division Wiking, operated against Titoist partisans during the summer of 1943. I believe their service was in Istria. Checking in the Panzergrenadiere der Panzer Division Wiking im Bild, it states in a photo caption that the service took place in "Kamonica-Zdonac." Is that Istria, or Yugoslavia proper?
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Post by G. Trifkovic » 08 Oct 2005, 19:25

And a thread on "Einsatzkommando der SIPO/SD 2" in Sarajevo:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 2+sarajevo

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Post by Allen Milcic » 08 Oct 2005, 19:54

Marc Rikmenspoel wrote:The III./Germania, from 5. SS-Panzer Division Wiking, operated against Titoist partisans during the summer of 1943. I believe their service was in Istria. Checking in the Panzergrenadiere der Panzer Division Wiking im Bild, it states in a photo caption that the service took place in "Kamonica-Zdonac." Is that Istria, or Yugoslavia proper?
Hi Marc:

Could that caption perhaps read "Kamenica-Zdenac"? If so, the area is in Croatia proper; the village of Zdenac is due east of Ogulin (approximately 10-12 km), while Kamenica is approximately 20 km south-west of Zdenac towards Senj.

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Post by Marc Rikmenspoel » 08 Oct 2005, 20:00

Hi Allen, that could well be what they meant, but it isn't what's written in the book :)
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Post by Allen Milcic » 08 Oct 2005, 20:05

Hi Marc:

You responded before I could update my post with further info :wink: (see above)

I would venture a guess that it is an error in the book - 'kamen' in the Croatian language is "stone or rock", while 'zdenac' is a "well". Spelled with "o" instead of "e" makes the names meaningless.

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Post by Mark V. » 08 Oct 2005, 20:15

Hi Ivan -

add also:
HQ + Korpstruppen:
II.SS-Pz.Korps (09-11/43 - Slovenia/Croatia)
III.SS-Pz.Korps (09-11/43 - Croatia)
V.SS-Geb.Korps (1943-15)
IX. Waffen-Geb.Korps (1944)

9.SS-Pz.Div. (04/45 - Slovenia)
16.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. (04/45 - Slovenia)
14.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Galizien" (45 - Slovenia)

SS-Geb.Ersatz- und Ausbildungs-Btl. 7 (44-45 - Slovenia)
II./SS-Pz.Rgt.5 (09-10/43 Croatia)
III./SS-Pol.Rgt.15 (Slovenia 1944)
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Post by Christoph Awender » 08 Oct 2005, 20:47

Hello

Don´t have the time to scan more of these Dislokationen at the moment but you can find some units:
http://chrito.users1.50megs.com/karten/balkan1.jpg
http://chrito.users1.50megs.com/karten/ ... aug44a.jpg

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Post by Serbian boy » 08 Oct 2005, 22:29

I can add some uther units:

Foreign volunteer units:
1.Some KONR units participated in "Rubezahl" and "Fruhlingsanfang" III-IV 1945-Slovenia
2.Poulos Verband XI.1944-III. 1945-Slovenia

Waffen-SS units:

SS-Kampfgruppe "Deak"-Defensive actions in Backa region,Novi Sad (Ujvidek),X. 1944 as part of 22.SS-Freiwillige-Kavalerie-Division "Maria Therezia"

Polizei units:

Polizei-Selbstschutz-Regiment Sandschak -Raska region,VI-X.1944
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Post by Ivan Ž. » 09 Oct 2005, 14:17

Gaius, Allen, Marc, Mark, Christoph and Serbian-boy
- thanks a lot! :)

My father remembers in his memoirs "Germania" in Yugoslavia as well.
Marc, is it too much to ask of you to post that photo of "Germania" (Kamenica-Zdenac)?

Can anyone confirm presence of two Latvian and Estonian SS division in YU?

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 09 Oct 2005, 15:23

I should perhaps add this as well:
Waffen-Grenadier-Regiment der SS (bulgarisches Nr.1) (XI 1944, Vardar)
Polizei-Bataillon "Ostland" (SS unit, or not?) ...any info & confirmation of it's presence in Bosnia 1943/44

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Post by Ivan Ž. » 10 Oct 2005, 14:14

On the first map posted by Christoph there's an
Muselmanische SS-Freiwilligen-Legion mentioned (next to 1.Geb.Div.).
What is that?!

Some sources claim that Osttürkischer Waffen-Verband der SS fought in Slovenia in April 1945.
Also (in Slovenia):
SS-Freiwilligen-Regiment "Varjag"
Kampfgruppe "Dippelhofer" (Dr. Otto Dippelhofer, SS-Sturmbannführer)
- this KG also included men from SS u. W-Unterführerschule Laibach.

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Post by Serbian boy » 10 Oct 2005, 23:28

"SS-Freiwilligen-Regiment "Warjag" was created in March of 1942 in Belgrade as SS-Freiwilligen Battalion "Warjag" from Russian volunteers..."

Is this true?
Sorce: Slavic Legion http://www.slavic-legion.narod.ru
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