Panzervernichtungsbrigade Hitlerjugend

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Loosely translated from French. I apologise for any indiscretions or misinterpretations. Some of the lines were removed as I could not make head nor tail out of them.


Panzer -Vernichtungs-Brigade Hitlerjugend


The first Panzer Hitlerjugend Vernichtungs Brigade, was formed in February 1945 as the third wave of troops Volkssturm. This is provided by students of Adolf Hitler Schule, the NAPOLA, the Wehrertuechtigungslager and leaders of the HJ.

End 1944, Hitler ordered that boys, following the bombing of Arbeits (ANPE) and Wehrmeldeaemter (local office of national service) could not be mobilized in the RAD or the Wehrmacht, are a group in these Wehrertuechtigungslager, setting up military camps. A request in the instruction is pushed on the use of the Panzerfaust.

The NCOs of PzVeBr Hitlerjugend, come from Heer. The officers from Heer and the Luftwaffe. It is expected that its NCOs and officers wear the insignia of ranks of Fuehrers HJ. The effective of the first brigade of four battalions companies. 2,400 people in total.The age is 14 to 17 battalions ans. These units bear the name Nahkampf Panzer Battalion, inscription can find Identity plates of its units.

At first it's Stabsfuehrer Moechel commanding battalions, but after his accidental death February 15, 45, it's Artur Axmann, the Reichsfuehrer of the HJ, who takes command. His command is rather symbolic because it is the de facto HJ Fuehrer Otto Kern controlling units. Meanwhile the 1st PzVeBr Hitlerjugend has 4,200 men and is divided into 2000 men fighting under the 9th Army orders has Stausberg, 900 for the city of Gotha for the fight against the US and 1,500 men for combat accuses around Berlin under the command of the 12th Army.

These units are teams armed with Panzerfaust, with Sturmgewehr 44, show good results. Axmann, in March 45, when the last meeting of HJ Fuehrers, calls for the creation of a brigade per region in Germany. 23 March 45, Helmut Eiffert in the orders of creation of a brigade Hannover / Ost states: anti tank activity in each location of the HJ, selected points of obligatory passage for tanks and especially ever abandoning the position is forbidden.

We know that April 22 has Cham in Bavaria, he had five battalions with 2,750 men, who were joined by the Brigades "Moselland" with 600 men, "Westmark" 2,000 men and "Hessen Nassau". These members of the HJ, being almost the only members of the Wehrmacht who were opposed to American troops in the sector.

The mobility of the Brigades was insured through Bicycles. We can find a story of 'a Brigade in Garrison has Berlin-Guetenfelde, of 19 April 45. Sixty members of the HJ organize literally a hunting of bicycles. They arrest the men who are on their way to work, having their bikes confiscated.

Axmann, 26 March 45, was the last "Youth Commitment Day", the day or the leitmotif for the HJ was given for the year to come. "The intelligence of their young brains and courage of their young hearts ... The youth of Adolf Hitler, became the center of national resistance, this war does not recognize the bourgeois measures, we surrender never, against overwhelming superior equipment, HJ opposes the belief in the strength and strength of our hearts.

"The boys were born in 1928, seventy percent are volunteers for the war. The Fuehrer HJ, pay the tribute of blood greater of Nazi organizations. Between September 39 and March 45, it has about 30,000 Fuehrer (Stammfuehrer or more) and 405,000 Unter-Fuehrer engaged on the front, 32,000 died. The Wehrmacht between July 44 and May 45, as many deaths as 1939 to 1944. Of the 19 765 HJ Fuehrers more grades, deaths 9500 (48 %). Among boys 16 to 17 years in service the Wehrmacht, 1.879 million lose their life.

Axmann is decorated the German 1st Class order on 26 April 1945 for the results of the HJ in combat.

Panzer Vernichtungs Brigade Hitlerjugend (les chasseurs des chars de la HJ)
 
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Panzervernichtungsbrigade Hessen-Nassau

Additionally, the HJ leadership had formed their own fighting units that were set up as a tank destroyer brigades and the Commander-West were under . Among them was the Anti-Armor Brigade Hessen-Nassau, the 6,300 man presented together with the districts Bavarian Ostmark and Westmark. The 13 battalions existed, as far as he was concerned Hessen-Nassau, brought from members of the military training camp of the vintage 1929, one out prior to the occupation of their land by the U.S. Army over Thuringia and in the Bavarian Forest for use.


Zusätzlich hatte die HJ-Führung eigene Kampfverbände gebildet, die als Panzervernichtungsbrigaden aufgestellt wurden und dem Oberbefehlshaber West unterstanden. Zu ihnen gehörte die Panzervernichtungsbrigade Hessen-Nassau, die zusammen mit den Gauen Bayrische Ostmark und Westmark 6.300 Mann stellten. Die 13 Bataillone bestanden, soweit es Hessen-Nassau betraf, aus Angehörigen der Wehrertüchtigungslager des Jahrgangs 1929, die man vor der Besetzung ihres Landes durch die US-Army über Thüringen geführt und im Bayrischen Wald zum Einsatz brachte.
http://archiv.schlitzerbote.de/SBLo...2aa45483ce7f2c3e41256752006302be?OpenDocument
 
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