Talk:Erwin Strittmatter

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Newspapers are not a reliable source, see Christian Krause, Zur Mediendebatte um Erwin Strittmatter, 2012. Until now the verdict on Strittmatter - volunteer to Waffen-SS, but rejected (?), serving under control of the Waffen-SS - is based on assumptions and interpretations of co-writers and literarary historians only.

Strittmatter, born 1912, was called up for militäry service by the Wehrmacht soon after the beginning of the war. All until then (=autumn 1939) militarily untrained men born between 1909-1912 and 1918-1920 had the opportunity to volunteer for the Schutzpolizei, i.e. <ref>to serve behind the front lines.(„Verordnung über die Einstellung von ungedienten Wehrpflichtigen in die Schutzpolizei des Reiches“) Strittmatter - as many others - applied for the Schutzpolizei. He was not called for service at once but continued to work in a branch relevant to the war (viscose) until March 1941. After 6 months of training in police baracks the Police Battailon 325 was stationed first in Slovenia, then for some weeks in Cracow and again in Slovenia (christmas 1941 until summer 1942). In summer 1942 all police battaillons were formed to regiments, the PB 325 became the III/Pol.Gebirgsjäger Regiment 18. In March 1943 all police-regiments were „honored“ by the SS-prefix but remained part of the police. The regiment never operated under the control of Waffen-SS or SS-Einsatztruppen. --Aschland (talk) 18:20, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]