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    (also spelt Führer-Begleit-Brigade: 150 ; abbreviated FBB; Führer escort brigade) was a German armoured brigade and later an armoured division...
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    Panzer-Korps Grossdeutschland, Panzer Division Brandenburg, Führer Begleit Division, Panzer Division Kurmark: A Pictorial History with Text & Maps. Carrollton...
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  • Brigade 999) Führer Begleit Division (previously Führer Begleit Battalion, Führer Begleit Brigade) Führer Grenadier Division (previously Führer Grenadier...
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    This unit was called the Führer Begleit (or Führer Escort) and was to eventually be expanded to divisional size (see Führer Begleit Brigade). In 1944, the...
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    and 20th Panzer Divisions. These tended to pass between Corps. Also Führer Begleit Division, 18th SS Div., 20th SS GD, and Panzer Division Hermann Göring...
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    called the Führer Begleit ("Führer Escort") battalion, and was to eventually be expanded to divisional size (see Führer-Begleit Division). In the months...
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    "von Werthern" Kampfgruppe made up of parts from the Führer-Begleit-Bataillon and Führer-Flak-Abteilung (Luftwaffe). According to Scherzer as pilot...
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    leader of the 6./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Der Führer". According to Scherzer as chief of the 4./Division-Füsilier-Bataillon (AA) 58. According to Scherzer...
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  • under SS-Standartenführer Anhalt, 600 men from the Begleit-Bataillon Reichsführer-SS, the Führer-Begleit-Kompanie and the core group being the 800 men of...
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    up to the offensive, Panzer Lehr was kept in reserve, along with the Führer Begleit Brigade. On 15 December, the day before the offensive began, Panzer...
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    the 2./Divisions-Füsilier-Bataillon 31 (A.A.). According to Scherzer as Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 2./Panzer-Regiment "Führer Begleit Brigade"...
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  • different divisions only increased as the war progressed. For instance, the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Panzer Divisions (formed from the four Light Divisions after...
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    requested on 3 March via teleprinter message from the nominating Führer-Begleit Division a detailed statement regarding the actions leading to the nomination...
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  • the XXXIX Panzer Corps as well as the Führer-Grenadier, Führer-Begleit, Holstein, and 10th SS Panzer Divisions westward behind Army Group Center, practically...
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  • excellent performance by forming part of the honour guard of the Fürher-Begleit-Kompanie (Fürher's Escort Company) for the formal armistice at Compiègne...
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    Begleit-Bataillon Reichsführer-SS, the Führer-Begleit-Company, and the core group—800 men of the LSSAH Guard Battalion assigned to guard the Führer....
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    written by the divisional commander General Remer, shows the insignia of a Commander-in-Chief of an Army Group, and not those of a divisional commander. According...
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    requested on 3 March via teleprinter message from the nominating Führer-Begleit Division a detailed statement regarding the actions leading to the nomination...
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  • Reichsführer-SS (600 soldiers) Führer-Begleit-Kompanie ϟϟ-Einsatz “Ezquerra” (Spanish) (100-150 soldiers) 33. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS „Charlemagne“ (...
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    Demonstration Division) and the Führer Begleit Brigade (Führer Escort Brigade) were to be held in reserve, with the Führer Begleit only usable with Model's express...
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    with his needs and concerns, taking advantage of the favouritism that the Führer displayed towards him and adding to the distrust that Kesselring and the...
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  • Russian front. At the end of 1944, he was given command of the elite Führer Begleit Brigade, a part of Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland. He led it through the...
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    saw only a waste of men and material with little chance of success. The Führer dismissed all objections, convinced that the elite German forces would roll...
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    (HPA—Army Personnel Office) Wilhelm Burgdorf to be very unlikely. The Führer-Grenadier-Division had been deployed in Silesia and the Ostmark (Austria) in March...
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    Diamonds on 16 July 1941. According to Scherzer as Commander of the III./Führer Begleit Brigade [= Grenadier-Battalion 928]. According to Scherzer as commander...
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  • Volksgrenadier Division), the Panzer-Lehr-Division and the Führer Begleit Brigade. Although held as a reserve, the Panzer-Lehr-Division was officially...
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    more enemy tanks in close combat. The prerequisites of Führeranordnung (Führer decree) of 7 March 1945 had therefore been met and no further explanation...
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    Papst who received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as commander of Divisions-Füsilier-Bataillon 81. No evidence of the award can be found in the German...
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