| On 19. July 1941 more
than 600 Danish volunteers was shipped to
Langenhorn outside Hamburg in Germany and
by the end of August 1941 the Frikorps
Danmark contained more than 1000
volunteers. The
Frikorps Danmark was formed like an
Infantery Battalion :
| Frontline
units |
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Replacement
units |
| Stabskompanie |
|
Ersatzkompanie |
| 1. Kompanie |
|
Ausbildungsstab |
| 2. Kompanie |
|
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| 3. Kompanie |
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| 4. Kompanie |
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Brief
history of the Frikorps Danmark
| August
to September 1941 |
Frikorps
Danmark is formed at the
Langenhorn kaserneoutside Hamburg |
| Septemper 1941
to May 1942 |
Frikorps
Danmark is trained in Treskow in
Poland. |
| May
to August 1942 |
Frikorps
Danmarkis engaged in the fierce
battle inside the pocket of
Demjansk |
| September
to October 1942 |
on
leave in Denmark |
| December
1942 to March 1943 |
engaged
in the fightings at Welikie Luki |
| 20.
May 1943 |
The Frikorps Danmark is
officially disbanded and the
surviving volunteers are
transfered to the newly formed SS
Panzer Grenadier Division
Nordland. Most of the volunteers
are placed in the SS Panzer
Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark" |
Although the
intention with the Frikorps Danmark was
to create a pure Danish legion, a few
members of the German Minority are known
to have served in the unit. Some ended up
in the Frikorps Danmark by a mistake and
others were transfered to the unit to
help train and translate between the
Danish volunteers and the German training
staff.
Because the Frikorps
Danmark was concidered as a Danish legion,
it raised massive protests inside the
German Minority in Nordschleswig as
volunteers from the German Minority were
placed in the unit. In April 1942, due to
a direct order from Himmler, all
volunteers belonging to the German
Minority in Nordschleswig were no longer
transfered to the Frikorps Danmark and
during 1942 the members from the German
Minority in Nordschleswig already serving
in the unit were transfered to other
Waffen SS units.
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