38th SS Division Nibelungen
The 38th SS Grenadier Division "Nibelungen " was set up on 27 March 1945 in the SS Junker School Bad Tölz. It consisted mainly of members of the Cadet School and remnants of the 6th SS Mountain Division " Nord", the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" and the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (White Ruthenian No.. 1). Then there were two battalions customs border protection, the escort battalion Reichsführer- SS and Hitler Youth Division. The Division is early May 1945 resulted in the foothills of the Alps American troops.
List
On March 25, 1945 by Adolf Hitler called the East or West Goths movement, ie the mobilization of all units of the Reserve Army, especially the Waffen- schools initiated. The 1,000 cadets of the SS Junker School Bad Tölz and the teaching staff should form under the commander of the school, SS Lieutenant Colonel Richard Schulze, the Leadership Corps of the SS division Junker school in the Freiburg - Feldberg- Todtnau with members of the vintage 1928 in the Adolf Hitler Schools Sonthofen and Jihlava, the RAD unit should be in Jagstzell and two replacement battalion of the Armed Forces, in all about 8,000 men, adds.
In fact, the Division reached only the strength of a brigade of about 5,000 men. Division units such as Pioneer, news and medical company reached only tensile strength. According to the army postal survey was only an SS brigade "Nibelungen " out, only the schematic structure called war on 12 April 1945, the 38th SS Grenadier Division "Nibelungen ".
On April 16, 1945, the SS - Panzer - Jäger Division 6 of the SS Mountain Division Nord was set up as a new SS Panzer Jäger- Division 38 and incorporated into the Division. The SS Artillery Training Regiment in Beneschau put on the SS Artillery Regiment 38.
Use
On April 17, 1945, the Division moved in front of the advancing French and American Associations first to Titisee -Neustadt, then back to Dachau. Since the installation could not be completed, the units of the Division were the XIII. Placed under SS - Army Corps and moved to the Danube front, where they arrived on April 21. The next day, American troops conquered Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and urged the German divisions back to the Danube, where these beachheads formed. Here, the 38th SS Division was a light artillery battalion of the 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( Hungarian No. 2) " Hungaria " reinforced. By 28 April, the Division made the advancing Americans resistance before the mass of the XIII. SS - Army Corps deposed towards Landshut to the south, where a new defensive front along the Isar was formed. A task force made up of members of the French SS Grenadier training and replacement battalion came in Moosburg for division.
About Wasserburg and the Chiemsee, the division moved early May back towards Traunstein to result in Reit im Winkl American troops on 8 May 1945.
Structure
( provided )
- SS - Panzergrenadier - Regiment 95 ( I. - III. )
- SS - Panzergrenadier - Regiment 96 ( I - IV )
- SS Artillery Regiment 38 ( I, II, 5th and 6th ) SS Panzer Jäger- Division 38
- SS Pioneer Department 38
- SS Flak Abteilung 38
- SS - news department 38
- SS training and replacement department 38
- SS police battalion Siegling
- SS Economic Battalion 38
( The Division received no more Feldpost numbers. )
Commanders
Known members
The actor Hardy Kruger, who already was a 13 -year-old Adolf Hitler students served from March 1945 to the capture by the Americans in this division.