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The SS Handbook
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Introducing Waffen SSPart I -- General InformationPart II -- Paramilitary Police Operations In Open TerrainPart III -- Operating Procedures For Police OperationsIn The City EnvironmentAppendix -- Gestapo Map SymbolsAppendix -- Army Map Symbols
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Skull Press Ebook Publication (Hagur), Gent,Belgium (Non Commercial for Information only)
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Introducing Waffen-SS
ORIGIN AND GROWTH
Ever since 1933 a portion of the
SS
has been armed and trained along military linesand served on a full-time basis, living in special barracks. These troops wereoriginally known as the
SS-Verfügungstruppen (SS-VT)
, the name indicating thatthey were held at the disposition of Hitler for any purpose whatever. By 1939 four regiments (
Standarten
) of these troops had been organized.The
Verfügungstruppen
took part in the occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakiaside by side with the troops of the Army. During the months preceding theoutbreak of the war they were given intensive military training and were formedinto regular military units which then took an active part in the Polish campaign.Elements of the Death's Head Formations (
Totenkopfverbände
) also took the fieldas military units.During the following winter and spring the regiments which had fought in Polandwere expanded into brigades and later into full divisions. This purely military branch of the
SS
was at first known as the
Bewaffnete SS
(literally "Armed SS")
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The Waffen_SS armed force belonged to Hitler's personal bodyguard, they were expanded as a fourth branch of the Wehrmacht and became regarded as the tough elite of the German armed forces. Known as Hitler's 'Asphalt Soldiers'…
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