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Hello Sergeant. Brandenburgers were the German Armys version of out future Green Berets. There was even a Panzergrenadier Division named Brandenburg.
They started out as a Construction Training Company, that eventually became Panzergrenadier Division Brandenburg.
On June 26 1942 they were known as: Training Regiment Brandenburg z.b.V. 800 and were qualified as being battle ready by the German High Command.
The unit was scattered for billeting in: Havel, Freiburg in Bresigau for regmt #1.
Rgmt #2 in Duren, and also in Weilburg/Baden.
Some Brandenburg Knights Cross REcipients are:
Oberleutnant Wilhelm Walther
Oblt Siegfried Graber
Leutnant Adrian von Foelkersam
Leutnant Ernst Prohaska
Oblt Hans-Wolfram Knaak
Leutnant Werner Kau
Oblt Erhard Lange
Oblt Karl-Heinz Oesterwitz + Oak Leaves as an Oberstleutnant.
Hauptmann Friedrich von Koenen
Hauptmann Siegfried Grabert + Oak Leaves
Oblt Max Wandrey + Oak Leaves as a Major.
Hauptmann Konrad Steidl
Oberst Erich von Bruchner
Oblt Eckart Afheldt
Oblt Erich Roseke
Leutnant Hellmut von Leipzig
Major Wilhelm Brockerhoff
Hauptmann Friedrich Muller-Rocholtz
Major Werner Voshage
The unit did not fight as a whole unit, they were used in scattered operations. They did commando type work.
Hope this helps you.
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