The cadre of the of SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 23 "Norge" was provided from the surviving troops from some of the already existing Germanic units in the Waffen SS"Nordland": Freiwilligen Legion Norwegen and the SS Infanterie Regiment

Several volunteers from Nordschleswig, which had served in the Infanterie Regiment "Nordland" and already had frontline experience from the fightings in Ukraine, were tranfered to this unit in 1943. Many of them served as NCO`s and were often used to translate between the Norwegian volunteers and the German officers.
 

 

Soldiers from the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 23 "Norge"

 

"Besitzzeugnis" for the Kraftfahrbewährungsabzeichen in Bronze. Awarded to Friedrich Carstensen, a volunteer from Nordschleswig and a veteran from the SS Infanterie Regiment "Nordland". Friedrich Carstensen was killed in Croatia in October 1943.

 

Urkunde for the "Ostmedaille".
Awarded to a volunteer from Nordschleswig. Also a veteran from the SS Infanterie Regiment "Nordland", who was transfered to the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 23 "Norge" and served there as a NCO in the 5. Kompanie

 

Jan Thomle

A Waffen SS volunteer from Norway

 

Letter to a next of kin.
Letter telling a young wife from Nordschleswig, that her husbond had been killed in Russia. The Feldpostnummer 32298 C tells that this volunteer served in the
2. Kompanie
SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 23 "Norge"

 

Christian Hansen
a volunteer from Tondern in Nordschleswig and a veteran from the SS Infanterie Regiment "Nordland".
Christian Hansen served as
SS Unterscharführer and Gruppenführer in the
9. Kompanie
SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 23 "Norge"

 

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