"SS Prototype: The "Wiking" Division" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Feb 2020 1:05 p.m. PST |
"The initial wartime expansion of the Waffen-SS was accomplished primarily by drafting police and military-age members of the general SS organization into the new regiments and divisions that took form in 1939 and early 1940. The Army, Air Force, and Navy shared strict military recruit and draft quotas set by the Wehrmacht High Command. Any additional recruiting of manpower for the Waffen-SS would have to come from the shares of the other three services, which competed hotly for priority. The Waffen-SS command gloomily forecast that the Wehrmacht would only allow them to recruit approximately two percent (or 12,000 men) of the yearly draft. Since the maintenance of the units in hand required 18,000 men a year, new sources of manpower had to be found. For this rather pragmatic reason, the Waffen-SS began to organize a concerted recruiting effort in foreign territories that were coming under the control of the Third Reich. On 30 April 1940, the SS began to recruit in occupied Denmark and Norway for a new regiment, designated SS Nordland…"
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| Tango01 | 16 Feb 2020 3:43 p.m. PST |
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