SS Heimwehr "Danzig" was an SS unit established in the Free City of Danzig (today Gdańsk and environs, Poland) before the Second World War. It fought with...

hours against assaults by the SS Heimwehr Danzig (SS Danzig Home Defence), local SA formations and special units of Danzig police. All but four of the defenders...

guards of the Standarten (regiments) of the SS-TV and soldiers from the SS-Heimwehr "Danzig. Members of other SS militias were also transferred into the division...

the SS-TV and the SS Heimwehr Danzig in October 1939. It was then folded into the Waffen-SS in August 1940. These troops wore the SS-TV skull and crossbones...

Invasion of Poland, the SS Heimwehr Danzig used three ADGZ armored cars during the attack on the Polish Post Office in Danzig, but one was lost during...

("Thüringen") Standarten (regiments) of the SS-Totenkopfverbände and men from the SS Heimwehr Danzig. Members of other SS militias were also transferred into...

were massacred in Zaspa. The Einsatzkommando 16, SS Heimwehr-Sturmbann Gotze and SS Heimwehr Danzig, were formed in the city, before entering Polish Pomerania...

out to some 2,361 in 1918. Two pieces of 17 cm mMW was also used by SS Heimwehr Danzig troops during the invasion of Poland. The Central Museum of The Royal...

3rd (Thüringen) Standarten (regiments) of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, and soldiers from the SS Heimwehr Danzig. After Eicke was assigned to combat duty, his...

Standartenführer (Colonel) of the German Waffen-SS and commander of SS Heimwehr Danzig (Danzig Home Defence). He was a son of SS-Brigadeführer Friedemann Goetze. He...

assaults by the SS Heimwehr Danzig (SS of the city Danzig), local SA formations, German Ordnungspolizei, and special units of Danzig police. All including...

After the invasion of Poland by Wehrmacht and SS Heimwehr Danzig, followed by the German annexation of Danzig Free City, about 130 Jews were held in a "ghetto"...

Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...

under Lieutenant Wilhelm Henningsen. On land the Germans had the SS Heimwehr Danzig force of 1,500 men under Police General Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt...

guards of the Standarten of the SS-TV, police and SS reservists and soldiers from the SS-Heimwehr "Danzig. Members of other SS militias were also transferred...

main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy...

hours against assaults by the SS Heimwehr Danzig (SS Danzig Home Defense), local SA formations and special units of Danzig police. All but four of the defenders...

the Poles to make concessions to the Germans. On 18 August 1939, the SS-led Heimwehr (Home Guard), which was mostly made up of teenagers from the Hitler...

Born: Dion DiMucci, singer-songwriter, in the Bronx, New York The SS Heimwehr Danzig reported the arrest of twenty "Marxists" they said were conspiring...

in Free City of Danzig Danziger Polizei (c. 1937–1939) Flag of the SS Heimwehr Danzig (1939–1940) House flag of the Gdansk Shipyard, notably used during...

members of SS Heimwehr Danzig under command of SS-Obersturmführer Wilhelm Fast Mass murder in Mniszek special unit of the SS – 36 Regiment SS Wachsturmbann...

Polish press. SS Heimwehr Danzig and SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann" units of the SS established by the Germans. 1939 September 1: Battle of the Danzig Bay; Defense...

to two years in prison and fined $10,000 for accepting bribes. The SS Heimwehr Danzig was formed. The Swatow Operation began. The Japanese captured the...

war and fled to the Free City of Danzig. Over there, he served until September 15, 1939, in the SS Heimwehr Danzig and afterwards he commanded a unit...

reorganized into the SS Heimwehr Danzig. From 1939 to 1940, he received training courses at the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz and served in the SS-Totenkopfverbände...

Alvensleben – commander of the SS and police in Crimea and commander of the Selbstschutz (self-defense) of the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. Max Amann – Reichsleiter...

Czechoslovakia) and two for the areas annexed from Poland and the Free City of Danzig after the joint invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union...

employees led by Konrad Guderski against the German Danzig police, Home Guard (Heimwehr) and SS, which after 14 hours of battle set the building on fire...

with Poland. In March 1939, Hitler demanded the return of the Free City of Danzig and the Polish Corridor, a strip of land that separated East Prussia from...

Soviet armies, the SS personnel of the concentration camp system in Latvia fled the country by sea from Riga or Liepāja to Danzig, taking with them several...