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Try Richard Landwehr:Nordic Warriors (isbn 1 89976507 7).It's history of ss-panzergrenadier-regiment 24 Danmark.
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Info about Nordland:
"The division began its career in anti-partisan operations in Croatia and was then later transferred to the Russian front. Nordland spent six months of hard fighting in the Baltics, the Kurland pocket and Prussia. The unit ended its career in rubble-strewn Berlin, putting up a fanatical, last-ditch by the Chancellery and Tempelhof airport. The famous photograph of the SS corpses strewn around a Sd Kfz 251 in a Berlin street are a few of Nordland's fallen"
One of the dead was the driver Ragnar Johansson (from Sweden)..
"The division began its career in anti-partisan operations in Croatia and was then later transferred to the Russian front. Nordland spent six months of hard fighting in the Baltics, the Kurland pocket and Prussia. The unit ended its career in rubble-strewn Berlin, putting up a fanatical, last-ditch by the Chancellery and Tempelhof airport. The famous photograph of the SS corpses strewn around a Sd Kfz 251 in a Berlin street are a few of Nordland's fallen"
One of the dead was the driver Ragnar Johansson (from Sweden)..
UNIT HISTORY:
April 1940: April 9: Germany invades and occupies Danmark; invades Norway.
April 20: SS-Standarte Nordland formed from Danish & Norwegian volunteers; stationed Vienna & Klagenfurt. This regiment is attached to the Wiking division and will be added to form the Nordland division in May 1943.
August 1941: "Freiwilligen Legion Norwegen" formed; 2 battalions: Viken and Viking
March 1942: training; unit strength 1,200
April 1942: first combat: Russian Front near Leningrad
May 1942: Legion suffers heavy casualties - unit strength 600.
March 1943: III SS-Panzerkorps (Germanisches) forming
May 1943: SS-Grenadier Regiment 1 Danmark(aka SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24) raised from Danish volunteers from members of the disbanded Freikorps Danemark and the Danes of the Nordland regiment of the 5th SS-Panzer Division Wiking and attached to the division. Norwegian puppet dictator Vikdun Quisling call for additional Norwegian volunteers for the Norge regiment and raises 600 men.
August 1943: division forming
September 1943: training: Croatia; Himmler raises age limit to allow Hungarian "volunteers" to join unit; SS-Freiwilligen-Legion Niederlande attached to division?
October 1943: training; antipartisan operations, near Zagreb, Croatia as part of the III SS-Panzerkorps.
November 1943: training; antipartisan operations Croatia; transferred to Russian front
November 24: SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24 Danmark in heavy combat against 5,000 partisan troops, Glina. The 11. Panzer Abteilung is detatched from the division to become Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 103 (503)
December 1943: Division strength: 11,500; posted to Leningrad. Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 102 attached to Panzer Regiment 11 (which has recently been awarded the cuffband Herman von Salza) for winter.SS-Flak-Abteilung 11 joins division.
January 1944: fighting withdrawl away from Leningrad, Russia; division retreats 60 miles
Jan 14: Soviets launch massibe assault against Germans at Oranienbaum. The front collapses, driving the SS troops all the way back to the Estonian city of Narva.
February 1944: Battle of Narva begins
Feb 13: Soviet Forces attempt to outflank Narva defences with landing at Merekule; Soviet landing force anhiliated
March 1944: stationed Narva; Soviets destroy Narva bridge. Nordland pioneer unit brought in to reconstruct it.
April - May 1944: Narva
June 1944: Division part of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Korps; division strength: 11,700
June 22: Soviets launch Operation Bagtration
July 1944:
July 26: SS blow Hermannsburg bridge (Narva); fall back to Tannenberg Line.
July 27: heavy combat; Orphanage Hill; fights alongside Sturmbrigade Langemark July 28: Div CO Gruppenführer Fritz Scholz KIA; Soviets push SS from Orphanage Hill
July 29: CO Fritz von Scholz dies of wounds; SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 23 Norge (aka Nordland) CO SS-Obersturmbannführer Arnold Stoffers and
SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24 Danmark CO are both killed in action during the terrible fighting. SS troops destroy 113 Soviet tanks on Orphanage Hill.
August 1944: Aug 4: Members of Penal Company 103 given their rank and badges back and subordinated under SS-Panzergrenadier Regt. 24
Aug 12: SS repulses Soviet attacks
September 1944: Sept 16: new Soviet attack Narva; unit starts forced march from Narva to Riga; evacuated to Courland pocket
Sept 18: all Waffen-SS units withdrawn to western Estonia, Battle of Narva ends
October 1944: in reserve, Kurland pocket
November 1944: Kurland pocket
December 1944: Division strength: 9,000
January 1945: shipped from Libau to Pomerania
February 1945: heavy combat Danzig, Stettin, Stargard; elements of Britisches Frei-Korps attached to division.
March 1945: heavy combat Danzig, Stettin, Stargard
April 1945: heavy combat Oder front, Neukölln, Batle of Berlin - part of 11th SS-Panzer Army?; I Battalions of Norge and Danmark transferred to 5th SS Division;
April 9: Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, falls to the Soviets.
April 16: Soviets launch final offensive in Berlin; division falls back to the government center of city. A French SS volunteer assault battalion (Französisches Freiwilligen (Sturm-) Battalion) under SS-Hauptsturmführer Henri Joseph Fenet may have joined the division in the defence of the city. Spanische-Freiwilligen-Kompanie der SS 101 is attached to the division and defends the Propaganda Ministry.
May 1945: Division annihiliated; the few remaining unit members surrender at Charlottenburg.
April 1940: April 9: Germany invades and occupies Danmark; invades Norway.
April 20: SS-Standarte Nordland formed from Danish & Norwegian volunteers; stationed Vienna & Klagenfurt. This regiment is attached to the Wiking division and will be added to form the Nordland division in May 1943.
August 1941: "Freiwilligen Legion Norwegen" formed; 2 battalions: Viken and Viking
March 1942: training; unit strength 1,200
April 1942: first combat: Russian Front near Leningrad
May 1942: Legion suffers heavy casualties - unit strength 600.
March 1943: III SS-Panzerkorps (Germanisches) forming
May 1943: SS-Grenadier Regiment 1 Danmark(aka SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24) raised from Danish volunteers from members of the disbanded Freikorps Danemark and the Danes of the Nordland regiment of the 5th SS-Panzer Division Wiking and attached to the division. Norwegian puppet dictator Vikdun Quisling call for additional Norwegian volunteers for the Norge regiment and raises 600 men.
August 1943: division forming
September 1943: training: Croatia; Himmler raises age limit to allow Hungarian "volunteers" to join unit; SS-Freiwilligen-Legion Niederlande attached to division?
October 1943: training; antipartisan operations, near Zagreb, Croatia as part of the III SS-Panzerkorps.
November 1943: training; antipartisan operations Croatia; transferred to Russian front
November 24: SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24 Danmark in heavy combat against 5,000 partisan troops, Glina. The 11. Panzer Abteilung is detatched from the division to become Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 103 (503)
December 1943: Division strength: 11,500; posted to Leningrad. Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 102 attached to Panzer Regiment 11 (which has recently been awarded the cuffband Herman von Salza) for winter.SS-Flak-Abteilung 11 joins division.
January 1944: fighting withdrawl away from Leningrad, Russia; division retreats 60 miles
Jan 14: Soviets launch massibe assault against Germans at Oranienbaum. The front collapses, driving the SS troops all the way back to the Estonian city of Narva.
February 1944: Battle of Narva begins
Feb 13: Soviet Forces attempt to outflank Narva defences with landing at Merekule; Soviet landing force anhiliated
March 1944: stationed Narva; Soviets destroy Narva bridge. Nordland pioneer unit brought in to reconstruct it.
April - May 1944: Narva
June 1944: Division part of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Korps; division strength: 11,700
June 22: Soviets launch Operation Bagtration
July 1944:
July 26: SS blow Hermannsburg bridge (Narva); fall back to Tannenberg Line.
July 27: heavy combat; Orphanage Hill; fights alongside Sturmbrigade Langemark July 28: Div CO Gruppenführer Fritz Scholz KIA; Soviets push SS from Orphanage Hill
July 29: CO Fritz von Scholz dies of wounds; SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 23 Norge (aka Nordland) CO SS-Obersturmbannführer Arnold Stoffers and
SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24 Danmark CO are both killed in action during the terrible fighting. SS troops destroy 113 Soviet tanks on Orphanage Hill.
August 1944: Aug 4: Members of Penal Company 103 given their rank and badges back and subordinated under SS-Panzergrenadier Regt. 24
Aug 12: SS repulses Soviet attacks
September 1944: Sept 16: new Soviet attack Narva; unit starts forced march from Narva to Riga; evacuated to Courland pocket
Sept 18: all Waffen-SS units withdrawn to western Estonia, Battle of Narva ends
October 1944: in reserve, Kurland pocket
November 1944: Kurland pocket
December 1944: Division strength: 9,000
January 1945: shipped from Libau to Pomerania
February 1945: heavy combat Danzig, Stettin, Stargard; elements of Britisches Frei-Korps attached to division.
March 1945: heavy combat Danzig, Stettin, Stargard
April 1945: heavy combat Oder front, Neukölln, Batle of Berlin - part of 11th SS-Panzer Army?; I Battalions of Norge and Danmark transferred to 5th SS Division;
April 9: Königsberg, the capital of East Prussia, falls to the Soviets.
April 16: Soviets launch final offensive in Berlin; division falls back to the government center of city. A French SS volunteer assault battalion (Französisches Freiwilligen (Sturm-) Battalion) under SS-Hauptsturmführer Henri Joseph Fenet may have joined the division in the defence of the city. Spanische-Freiwilligen-Kompanie der SS 101 is attached to the division and defends the Propaganda Ministry.
May 1945: Division annihiliated; the few remaining unit members surrender at Charlottenburg.
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have you tried http://www.wssob.com very good intro site for ss divisions
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The photo of a knocked out half-track in Berlin, surrounded by fallen soldiers, shows a Sd.Kfz.250 Neu - not a 251 - actually.
Some sources say one of the fallen is Unterscharführer Ragnar "Giraffen" Johansson, but that is nothing but fantasies.
Some sources say one of the fallen is Unterscharführer Ragnar "Giraffen" Johansson, but that is nothing but fantasies.