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03-06-2021 11:31 AM
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Interesting. What is the newest "last date" stamp/signed paper in those piles.
Just interesting to how many days between last stamp and their departure when germans left Hanko harbor. Possible dokuments were hidden quikly?
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Made google research on what is "Kampfschule". Found answer in axis history 2016 forum discussion by schwarzermai.
In short training organization which appeared mid-1943 in East wehrmach divisions for various combat school courses.
Lazy translator copy-paste answer;
1.) Teaching staff
- 1 Commander of the DKS and course leader (Offz.)
- 1 trainer instructor (officer)
- 1 teacher for group leaders (officer)
- 1 heavy weapons instructor offz.)
- 1 teacher for specialist training (officer)
- 2 trainers for group leader training (Schützen-Kp) Uffz.)
- 2 trainers for group leader training (heavy weapons) (Uffz.)
- 2 trainers for specialist training (including 1 pioneer) (Uffz.)
- 4 group leaders for Schützen-Kp (Uffz.)
- 4 group leaders for heavy weapons (including Panzerschreck) (Uffz.)
- 1 group leader for pioneer training (Uffz.)
- 1 group leader for sniper training (Uffz.)
- 1 group leader for non-training courses (Uffz.)
Total: 5 officers, 17 NCOs
2.) Permanent staff
- 1 sergeant major (Uffz.)
- 1 accounting officer (Uffz.)
- 1 equipment officer (Uffz.)
- 1 clerk (man)
- 1 medical soldier (crew)
- 2 weapon master assistants (men)
- 1 cook (man)
- 1 cook (assistant) (student assistant)
- 12 workers for supply, cordoning off, setting up windows, etc. (student assistants)
Total: 3 NCOs, 5 teams, 13 student assistants
The material equipment should be:
1.) Weapons:
- 8 le. MG (34 or 42, depending on the equipment of the division)
- 2 sch. MG (besp.)
- 2 m. Size W. (besp.)
- 1 le. I.G. 37 (besp.)
- 1 2cm Flak or 1 3.7cm Flak (besp.)
- 1 flamethrower
- 5 rifle sizes
- 2 Panzerschreck
- 30 MP 44
- Pocket cartridges
- Other weapons (depending on the equipment of the division)
2.) Hawser
- 1 large field kitchen
- 1 refreshment trolley
- 1 storage car
- 1 equipment trolley
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Alarm kompanie, shameless google research.
Each regiment is normally composed of three active battalions and one reserve battalion. The active battalions bear Roman numerals.
Each active battalion consists of four companies and a medical detachment (Sanitätsstaffel). One of the four companies may serve locally as a guard company (Wachkompanie) and one as an emergency company (Alarm-Kompanie), while the remaining two are assigned to general duties."
In Hanko, I think Alarm companie might have been "Schtz.-Ers.-Kp" or Schütze Ersatz Kompanie.
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"Verikauha" The last date I have found so far is from early June 1944. "The Urlaubsperre" commenced only weeks after that.
Best, Jan
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Hi Jan,
Good luck on your PhD! I think I have seen/read something about this find before. Perhaps a news article someone pointed out on forums.
An "Alarm Kompanie" comes from the German concept of designating "Alarm Einheiten" or alarm units, Kompanie giving us a rough size in this case. Alarm units were kind of what you expect from the name: They were designated to respond to a crisis, usually enemy action. Alarm units were sometimes organized units designated in advance for that role, but often - particularly on the Ostfront - they were hastily thrown together. I have read accounts of Alarm Einheiten thrown together from men returning from leave at a railway station or from cooks and drivers and other rear area personnel to respond to Red Army attacks that broke through the German main line of resistance.
The phrase Division Kampfschule often referred to a sort of "finishing school" organized by a German Division, usually through their divisional replacement battalion. It was intended to build on the basic training that new recruits had received in the homeland, and bring up their skill level in combat tasks before these new replacements were distributed to the front line. As the war went on, the German home training and replacement army had to shorten basic training, such that new recruits were shipped to the Front less prepared than they had been pre and early war. The Feld Heer recognized that the Ersatz Heer was sending them really green troops and they didn't want to send these new soldiers off to the slaughter if they could avoid it. Therefore they conducted some local training through their internally organized Kampfschule to try and raise the training level of their recruits and give them a better "fighting chance" when eventually sent to the front lines as replacements. The divisional Kampfschulen could also be used to train soldiers who had already been at the Front on new equipment and tactics that recently came out.
Todd
Former U.S. Army Tanker.
"Best job I ever had."
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