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Flag of the SS Heimwehr Danzig

SS Heimwehr "Danzig" was an SS unit established in the free city of Danzig (today Gdańsk, Poland) before the Second World War. The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Gdańsk ( Polish pronunciation; 'Danzig', Gduńsk Gedania Dantiscum is the City at the centre of the fourth-largest Metropolitan area in Poland Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including It fought with the German army against the Polish Army during the invasion of Poland. After this it became part of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf and ceased to exist as an independent unit. SS Division Totenkopf ("Death's Head" or "Skull" is also known as 3

Also known as Heimwehr Danzig (Danzig Home Defense), it was officially established on 20 June 1939, when the Danzig senate under Albert Forster decided to set up its own powerful armed force; a cadre of this new unit primarily formed the Danzige SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann". Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Albert Maria Forster ( July 26, 1902 &ndash February 28, 1952) was a Nazi German politician

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Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler supported this project and sent SS Obersturmbannführer Hans Friedemann Goetze to Danzig. was a special SS rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 was a Nazi German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS. The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Obersturmbannführer was a Paramilitary Nazi Party rank used by both the SA and the SS. Goetze was the commander of the III. Sturmbann (Regiment) of the 4th SS-Totenkopfstandarte "Ostmark," established in October 1938 in Berlin-Adlersheim.

The III. Sturmbann regiment was strengthened with the help of anti-tank defense forces (the Panzerabwehr-Lehrsturm of the SS Totenkopfstandarten) as well as about 500 additional volunteers from Danzig who named their new unit SS Sturmbann "Goetze". The Danzig SS-men had been members a special SS troop established in July 1939 - the Wachsturmbann "Eimann" - and at the beginning of August this self-named Sturmbann "Goetze" reached the peninsula at the mouth of the Vistula called the Danzig Westerplatte. There it kept itself hidden on German ships, including the naval training ship "Schleswig-Holstein. "

On August 18, 1939 the Polish government militarily mobilized against the German Reich. The Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) in Danzig "completely spontaneously" founded the 1,550-man strong Heimwehr Danzig (Danzig Militia). This page describes the origins and historical use of the term Volksdeutsche.

On 1 September 1939 German troops attacked Poland. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Heimwehr Danzig fought on the German side, in the process capturing the Polish post office, an event which Günter Grass dedicated a chapter of his novel The Tin Drum to. The Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig (today Gdańsk) was one of the first battles of the Invasion of Poland, and of the World War II Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927 is a Nobel Prize -winning German Author and Playwright. The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel is a 1959 Novel by Günter Grass. During the attacks the German forces used ADGZ armoured cars, 75mm and 105mm artillery and flamethrowers against Poles armed with pistols, rifles, light machine guns and grenades. The ADGZ was originally developed as a heavy armored car for the Austrian army (its designation was "M35 Mittlere Panzerwagen" from 1934 and delivered from 1935-37 The SS-Heimwehr Danzig participated in the attack on the Danzig Westerplatte, and already was considered a part of the SS-Totenkopf Division then forming under Theodor Eicke. Westerplatte is a Peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on Baltic Sea coast at the river mouth of the Dead Vistula (one of the SS Division Totenkopf ("Death's Head" or "Skull" is also known as 3 Theodor Eicke ( October 17 1892 &ndash February 26, 1943) was a Nazi official SS- Obergruppenführer, commander Later, it provided coast guard services in Danzig.

On September 30, 1939, the Heimwehr was dissolved. After Poland was overrun, such militias were involved in war crimes perpetrated on Polish civilians in West Prussia. West Prussia ( Prusy Zachodnie was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773&ndash1824 and 1878&ndash1918 which was created out of the earlier Polish

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The SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann"

The SS Wachsturmbann "Eimann" was set up in early June, 1939 in Danzig by then SS Sturmbannführer Kurt Eimann and was considered as an armed reserve of the Danzig SS-Standarte 36. It was used also in the Volksdeutsche (ethnic German) areas of the Polish Corridor, in order to induce ethnic Germans to join the SS, particularly the Totenkopfverbände. This page describes the origins and historical use of the term Volksdeutsche. Background Giving Poland access to the sea was one of the guarantees proposed by the United States President Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen This Wachsturmbann was the first regiment of the later SS-Totenkopf-Division to have a purely military battle formation. SS Division Totenkopf ("Death's Head" or "Skull" is also known as 3

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After the "reunification of Danzig with the German Reich," the Wachsturmbann "Eimann" provided the staff for the newly-established concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig. The Nazi government also employed it for "special police tasks" in the new Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen, which means it was used to persecute and imprison Polish Jews. The province Danzig-West Prussia (Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreussen was a German administrative sub-division unit ( Reichsgau) created in 1939 by the Nazis from the

References

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  2. Mollo, Andrew: Allgemeine-SS (ISBN 0-7643-0145-4)
  3. Mark Yerger: A Pictorial History of the SS, 1923-1945 (ISBN 0-8128-2174-2)
  4. Robin Lumsden: The Allgemeine-SS, Vol. 266 (ISBN 1-85532-358-3)
  5. Martin Windrow: Waffen-SS, Vol. 34 (ISBN 0-85045-425-5)
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