5th SS Police Regiment

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For another regiment with the same name, see 14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician) § Huta Pieniacka.
5th SS Police Regiment
Country 
Wehrkreis
XVII

The 5th SS Police Regiment (

SS
unit in early 1943. The regiment was disbanded at the end of 1944.

Formation and organization

The regiment was ordered formed in July 1942 in

Lieutenant Colonel (Oberstleutenant der Schutzpolizei) Franz Lechthaler assumed command on 15 July and retained until sometime in late 1944.[3]

All of these police regiments were redesignated as SS police units on 24 February 1943. The regiment was disbanded at the end of 1944 during the German withdrawal from Serbia.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Tessin & Kanapin, p. 617
  2. ^ Arico, pp. 197–98, 484; Tessin & Kanapin, p. 617
  3. ^ Muñoz, pp. 176–77
  4. ^ Tessin & Kannapin, pp. 557, 617

References

  • Arico, Massimo. Ordnungspolizei: Encyclopedia of the German Police Battalions, Stockholm: Leandoer and Ekholm (2010).
    ISBN 978-91-85657-99-5
  • Muñoz, Antonio J. Hitler's Green Army: The German Order Police and Their European Auxiliaries, 1933–1945, Volume 2: Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Bayside, New York: Europa Books, 2006
    ISBN 1-891227-67-X
  • Tessin, Georg & Kannapin, Norbert. Waffen-SS under Ordnungspolizei im Kriegseinsatz 1939–1945: Ein Überlick anhand der Feldpostübersicht, Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio Verlag (2000).
    ISBN 3-7648-2471-9
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