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This regiment was built at Schnelle-Brigade 20 as Schnelle-Regiment Fritschen in 1944 and had Schnelle-Abteilungen 503, 504, 506. All of these were reserve bicycle units.

Abel

Hi Kamen, sorry for the late reply but i've been cut off from the internet in the past few days. Well, this is the first time I hear about the different designation system - most fascinating! This of course clears up all the mess! :idea: Thank you for your time and efforts in clearing this up, Kamen...

Just noticed your last post, this clears up a lot of mess! I have to apologize myself to both you and Mr. Ungváry, as I have misinterpreted his words. Here is a verbatim translation of the combat at Törökbálint from his book: Also during that night ( 23/12 ), the armoured group of the FHH (Panzer Di...

Hi Kamen, I take it that Pape left Budapest on 21/12, so both Ungváry and Számvéber missed the point here. The document I quoted above ("A német 13. páncéloshadosztály és a "Feldherrnhalle" páncélgránátos-hadosztály heti állományjelentése a IX. SS-hegyihadtest-parancsnokságnak, 1945. január 7. ") al...

Hi Kamen, I have always respected the high quality of your posts, including your last one. Still, I don't agree in some points. Related to Gr. Pape, I relied on secondary sources, Norbert Számvéber's Erőd a Dunán and Krisztián Ungváry's Budapest Ostroma. Both are well researched monographies relying...

Hi Kamen, many data seem to be the same in our sources, nice post. The Pape Group didn't arrive - it was rather mustered. It emerged on 22 Dec when various troops engaged in the area west Budapest were placed under single command authority - that of General-Major Pape and the his small staff, the Ia...

Sure, 24/12, the 110. TB and the 32. MRB cut all the roads leading to Budapest from the west. The 170. TB (Colonel N.P. Chunikhin) pushed forward towards Mány-Sárisáp. 25/12, the 170. TB reached Tata. The brigade then turned north, but suffered a loss of 4 T-34s and was halted at Dorog by a German F...

The 23. Hungarian Reserve Division evacuated the town through the Mária Valéria bridge at 06.30 on the 26/12/44. One hour later, German engineers then blew up the bridge between Esztergom and Párkány on the other side of the Danube - the bridge was not repaired until the 1990s. From the Soviet side,...

Hi Lorenz, thanks for the input! Seems that we are on the same brainwave here - Fischer disappearing and the brigade showing up. But here's what Dieter Zienke had to say at Another History Forum: This unit was built out of "Kampfgruppe Engelbrecht" (established out of the german Ausbildungs-Bataillo...

Hi, I'm looking for information about the so-called Sturm-Brigade Südost that shows up in the OKW OoB for 30/4/45 under LXIX. AK, HGr E. Any info including composition, commander etc is welcome. Is there any connection between this unit and the so-called Division(sgruppe) zbV Fischer ? Thanks, Abel

Dear arodoef,

I would be very much pleased indeed of You could contribute any of Your father's documents to this research! Any data/documents that You would wish to submit would be of great interest for me, too!

Abel

IMHO "Don-kanyar", by Péter Szabó is the "definite" about the subject. I don't know if its available also in English, but perhaps this is no problem for Victor from Budapest

Hi Victor,

feel free to contact me in a PM or email regarding the battle of the Don bend. I've got plenty of data so please be specific about what You'd like to know.

Üdvözlettel,

Ábel

The cossack armies also had their infantry. These units were dubbed "plastun". For example, the Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps formed a Plastun Brigade/Division of two regiments. Plastun units were also formed by the Kazachij Stan (Kosakenlager). This topic has recently been discussed at "another history ...

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