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SS Heimwehr Danzig

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The SS Heimwehr "Danzig" or also Heimwehr Danzig (home resistance Danzig) became official on 20 June 1939 set up, as Danziger senate under Albert Forster, its own powerful armed force decided to set up.

Cadre of this new unit formed above all the Danziger SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann".

History

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler this project supported. It sent the SS Obersturmbannführer Hans Friedemann Goetze to Danzig. This was a commander in October 1938 in Berlin-Adlersheim set up III. Sturmbann (Regiment) of the 4. SS- Totenkopfstandarte "Ostmark".

The III. Sturmbann was strengthened with the "antitank defense training storm of the SS Totenkopfstandarten" as well as approximately further 500 freiwilligen. These Volunteers, to the new unit named SS Sturmbann "Goetze" announced themselves, originated from Danzig.

The Danziger of SS men had been member of the wax tower spell "Eimann" and at the beginning of August reached the storm spell "Goetze" the Westerplatte Danzigs, where he kept himself hidden on German ships.

On 18 August the 1939 the Polish government proclaimed the mobilization against the German Reich and Volksdeutschen Danzigs created "completely spontaneously" the 1,550 men strong "home resistance Danzig".

To 1 September 1939 attacked German troops Poland. The "Heimwehr Danzig" fought on their side. There the "SS Heimwehr Danzig" conquered the Polish post office; an event, which Guenter Grass a chapter of its novel Die Blechtrommel dedicates.

The SS Heimwehr sold the Polish soldiers of the Danziger Westerplatte and was considered already as part of the developing SS Totenkopfdivision Theodor Eickes. It provided thereafter in Danzig the service of a coast guard.

To 30 Septmber 1939 was again dissolved the home resistance. After the conquest of Poland the home military federations were involved in war crimes in the Polish civilian population in west Prussia.

commanders

  • SS Obersturmbannführer Hans Friedemann Goetze

Battle formation

The SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann"

The SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann" was set up to at the beginning of of June 1939 in Danzig by the SS Sturmbannführer at that time Kurt Eimann and was considered as armed reserve storm spell of the Danziger SS-Standarte 36. It was used also in volksdeutsche areas Korridors, in order to induce ethnic Germans in particular to the entrance into the general SS and into the Totenkopfverbände. This wax tower spell exhibited a purely military battle formation as the first federation of the later SS-Totenkopf-Division.

commanders

Battle formation

  • Command
  • I. Group of one hundred
  • II. Group of one hundred
  • III. Group of one hundred
  • IV. Group of one hundred
  • Force driving relay

After the "reunification in such a way specified Danzigs with the German Reich" educated the wax tower spell "Eimann" the cadre personnel of the new-arranged KZ Stutthof with Danzig.

References

  1. HIAG: Wenn alle Brüder schweigen, grosser Bildband über die Waffen-SS (ISBN 3-921242-21-5), 1973
  2. Mark C. Yerger: Allgemeine-SS (ISBN 0-7643-0145-4)
  3. Mark Yerger: A Pictorial History of the SS, 1923-1945 (ISBN 0-8128-2174-0)
  4. Robin Lumsden: The Allgemeine-SS, Vol. 266 (ISBN 1-8553-2358-3)
  5. Martin Windrow: Waffen-SS, Vol. 34 (ISBN 0-8504-5425-5)


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