Postwar, Steiner was one of the founding members of the W-SS veterans group HIAG and author of books suchĪs such as The Volunteers: Idea and Sacrifice. Steiner went onīecome the commander of the III SS Panzerkorps and the 11th SS Panzer "army".
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Made up of Germans plus a varied assortment of European volunteers, became his "baby". Steiner was the first divisional commander of the "Wiking" division and in many respects the unit, To the military training of the SS-VT is often cited as the reason the W-SS was an "elite" formation. Joined the SS in 1935 and molded the SS-VT into an efficent military formation. I won't get deeply into his biographical career,īut basically he was a career soldier and member of a Freikorps and the Reichwehr who Steiner is one of the most famous W-SS generals. It's important to point out the role of Felix Steiner in the reputation of the W-SS in general and the 5th SS division in particular. I used to subscribe to this belief, although in the past year or so my view has become more
War crimes (whether spontaneous or premeditated, apolitical or ideologically motivated). The 5th SS division has a reputation as a "clean" Waffen-SS unit - i.e. * Masters of Death: The SS Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust pg. All these words, synonyms with destruction, seem completely banal and devoid of meaning once one has gotten used to them."** Peter Neumann, a young SS officer in the division, write in a letter "Liquidations, executions, purges. The Viking Division 'had been indoctrinated with anti-Semitic thoughts in Dachau and Weuberg' by a major and a corporal, Otto explained, 'but we were never told that the anti-Semitic program went as far as extermination.'"** About fifty to sixty Jews were killed in this manner."* were part of this group that conducted the shootings. At the end of the path stood a number of SS and Wehrmacht officers with machine pistols, with which they shot the Jews dead as soon as they had entered into the bomb crater. The Jews were then forced to run down the path and while doing so the people on both sides beat them with their rifle butts and bayonets. Most of the soldiers were from the meat train and the bakery company, but some of them were from the 1st Mountain Hunter Division. Then a path was formed by two rows of soldiers. Obersturmführer Braunnagel of the bakery company and Untersturmführer Kochalty were in charge of rounding them up. '.The members of the meat train and the bakery company systematically rounded up all Jews who could be found based on their facial characteristic and their speech, as most of them spoke Yiddish.
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Günther Otto, a twenty-one year-old butcher assigned to the train that carried fresh meat for the troops, described the experience in a Nurenburg trial deposition after the war: ".A similar gauntlet, but more lethal, was organized four days later by officers of the Waffen-SS Viking division following the shooting death of the commander of one of the division's regiments. July 9: Divisional troops massacre Jews at L'viv: Of course, the Totenkopf divison was responsible for almost equally disgusting atrocities. Many of the volksdeutsche freiwillinge units of the Waffen-SS have stained the overall reputation of what has been undoubtedly the best army of WW2. It must be noted that the ,Das Reich" and "Wiking" divisions boasted the highest number of Ritterkreuzträger among the SS-divisions, and its members were very proud to have joined such elite divisions. The Waffen-SS was NOT a bunch of black-uniformed Aryans who ran around mopping up resistance with force and committing warcrimes, in fact should be regarded with humble respect, especially by the men they'd presented a good fight. So Oleg, I can only say that your source is COMPLETE and utter fiction, or anti-German propaganda. A far cry from the excesses of the criminal Dirlewanger Brigade or the 3rd Panzer, "Totenkopf". The 5.SS.PanzerDivision ,Wiking", the 17th SS-Panzergrenadier Division "Götz von Berlichingen", 34.SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Brigade "Landstorm Nederland", 10th SS-Panzer Division "Frundsberg", the 2.SS.PzDiv ,Das Reich", 9th SS-Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" and the 10th SS-Panzer Division Frundsberg were pretty much the only divisions of the Waffen-SS who abstained from any atrocities throughout, slate almost clean. Konstan wrote:I have always read that warcrimes were not commited by Wiking, as policy.
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