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Perhaps all misses the point, 1. Fear of unit x regards the subjective outlook of Russian soldiers and not objective measures of what units of the SS might have done to be feared (or not). 2. Besides, more likely what Russian soldiers really feared was their own commisars and officers - what the SS ...

Ah, interesting, what is the photo source? I'm more interested in subsequent movements of the battalion (its personnel) mid to late war ..

Vinnie O wrote:I recently read a ne biography of Stalin from Russian sources.

Which biography, what sources?

Yeah, re the current conflict in iraq, one can see in real time the machinations in action in the US presidential campaigning regarding weapons of mass destruction and Abu Ghraib : there are conflicting "facts" being bandied about by both parties, and savage verbal broadsides launched not ...

Yeah, I guess Suvorov was probably more interested in making money by writing sensationalised (as opposed to drily historical) books. No, the line soldiers do not make the decisions, but if you for instance follow the unofficial internal US military debates on iraq (the milblogs,or sites like "...

On a different note, it's always funny to see the name Viktor Suvorov among "the scholars". You probably know that the man (real name Viktor Rezvun) wrote his books ten years after he deserted KGB intelligence dpt when he actually had no access to any Soviet archives he claims to analyse....

Presumably SS Pz. Jg. Abt5 = SS-Panzerjager-Abteilung 5 (=SS 5th anti-tank battalion) of the 5.SS Panzer Division "VIKING"

http://www.feldgrau.com/5ss.html

Cool, thanks.
If considered a german battalion, that will explain why it is not found in Latvian sources.

I have a possible candidate unit scraped from a post at http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=43908: "The Waffen-SS battalion "Ostland" (from the beginning of 1942 the 304th Police Battalion) was actually formed on 6th July 1941 in the German Police training camps near Berlin a...

A strange thing, I have heard odd rumors but never seen anything written about this, it may well be a canard, but anyway : Does anyone have any info regarding the presence of a Estonian or Latvian (or even mixed???) unit (perhaps police/schuma? HIWIs?) involved in anti-partisan operations in the are...

Not quite true - they did in the end surrender, and some subsequently escaped to the west : see Mangulis, Visvaldis. Latvia in the Wars of the 20th Century. Chapter IX http://www.historia.lv/publikacijas/gramat/mangulis/09.nod.htm (in english). Note that the original Latvian spelling is Neilands not...