Waffen SS GEB.JEG.RGT. 6

**Newbie** · 11-13-2011, 11:21 PM

Can anyone help with this? Did this Mountain troop rgt ever exist?

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**Newbie** · 11-13-2011, 11:26 PM

This is all i can find on any Gebirgsjager rgt. #6...
"The Brigade got a new unit attached, SS Gebirgsjäger (Mountain) Artillery Regiment 6, and was now designated as a Division, the SS Division "Nord". In September 1941 SS Division "Nord" was attached to the Finnish III Corps under Finnish General Hjalmar Siilasvuo (this was the only time that an SS Division was under the command of a non-German officer), and took up new positions at Louhi, Kiestinki.[1]

By the end of 1941, it had suffered severe casualties. Over the winter of 1941–42 it received replacements from the general pool of Waffen SS recruits, supposedly younger and better trained than the SS men of the original formation.[2] "