the 20th division S of pomegranates

the 20th division S of pomegranates corresponds in German to 20th WAFFEN-GRENADIERDIVISION DER S - ESTLAND .

Creation

March 1944 starting from the Estonian Legion , of which it took again the German name Estland.

Recruitment

Germans, Volksdeutsche of the Baltic, Estonians.

Emblem

A sword with the initial ESTIJ.

Maximum manpower

5099 men in December 1943.

Commander

Brigadeführer Augsberger.

Grounds of operations

Narva, Estonia at the sides of the Walloons, Courlande, escapes surrounding then combat in Poland and Silesia. Will disappear with Prague in 1945, many combatants will remain in the maquis of the “brothers of the forest”.

See too

Units of Waffen S

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