They fought under Army command. They were formed out of the larger Hermann Görikg division hence the name.
No. Just practicalities.
SS were just the kommissars that hanged around the more normal units and were tasked with keeping everyone in line, in practice they were just the retard suicide squad that performed worse in every way
SS were just the kommissars that hanged around the more normal units and were tasked with keeping everyone in line, in practice they were just the retard suicide squad that performed worse in every way
>SS were just the kommissars
SS were just MP. their job wasn't keeping normal units in line but rather enforcing german occupation and law. if they were nearby or had nothing to do they could get sent into actual combat but mostly they just killed civilans and sometimes when they actually wanted to not be a waste of resources they might engage some partisans but even then they often needed wehrmacht support because they couldn't fight someone who actually shoots back.
Naming units after important people was a thing with continental armies and even the brits.
An airforce will have troops trained for ground combat to secure airbases and supply lines to and from those air bases. The idea was to take some of those troops and hands that weren't doing anything and putting them into a division for use by the army. And because they where taking those men from the airforce you name it after the head of the airforce to smooth over the transfer of men to effectively be in a different branch.
It ending up as a panzer division had more to do with the shift in ratio between manpower/equipment in the Heer. And how the Germans wouldn't rotate divisions until they where so low in strength that they weren't combat effective anymore. So as those divisions where being brought up to strength they would often get now equipment/designations.
Think of like taking air force security details, paratroopers ect and giving them to the marines but because the brass might feel slighted calling it the Doolittle division. And after taking a lot of losses they are sent back to the USA to take in more men only for the pencil pushers to make them mechanized because they had the vehicles laying around
Wasn't it just a result of political power game retardation?
They fought under Army command. They were formed out of the larger Hermann Görikg division hence the name.
No. Just practicalities.
All of this is wrong.
Yeah it was political military branch fighting bullshit.
Goering was bored so they gave him something to command after the Luftwaffe got annihilated by 1942
Germany had some weird units.
For me, it's SS-Fallschirmjägerbataillon 500.
>SS insignia
>Wehrmacht camo
>Luftwaffe eagle and helmet
SOWL
SS were just the kommissars that hanged around the more normal units and were tasked with keeping everyone in line, in practice they were just the retard suicide squad that performed worse in every way
>SS were just the kommissars
SS were just MP. their job wasn't keeping normal units in line but rather enforcing german occupation and law. if they were nearby or had nothing to do they could get sent into actual combat but mostly they just killed civilans and sometimes when they actually wanted to not be a waste of resources they might engage some partisans but even then they often needed wehrmacht support because they couldn't fight someone who actually shoots back.
Are you a retard or a Vatnik?
Same value as the Imperial Japanese Army having their own aircraft carriers
Tiger airdrop raids, of course.
Goering- completely zooted on amphetamines one day- wanted tanks.
insurance against getting stalin'd
He'd gone crazy by that point.
Naming units after important people was a thing with continental armies and even the brits.
An airforce will have troops trained for ground combat to secure airbases and supply lines to and from those air bases. The idea was to take some of those troops and hands that weren't doing anything and putting them into a division for use by the army. And because they where taking those men from the airforce you name it after the head of the airforce to smooth over the transfer of men to effectively be in a different branch.
It ending up as a panzer division had more to do with the shift in ratio between manpower/equipment in the Heer. And how the Germans wouldn't rotate divisions until they where so low in strength that they weren't combat effective anymore. So as those divisions where being brought up to strength they would often get now equipment/designations.
Think of like taking air force security details, paratroopers ect and giving them to the marines but because the brass might feel slighted calling it the Doolittle division. And after taking a lot of losses they are sent back to the USA to take in more men only for the pencil pushers to make them mechanized because they had the vehicles laying around
What did you do in the Air Force, dad?
I drove a tank
>wat