Original photo SS-Unterscharfuhrer Waffen-SS

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Original photo 1943 SS-Unterscharfuhrer Waffen-SS, SS-Fallschirmjägerbataillon 500. 3rd Reich, Germany. Has awards: Iron cross 1st and 2nd class, the medal the winter company on the Eastern front(in Russia) of 1941/42, the sign for the wound, infantry assault badge and the parachutist sign. 500th parachute battalion SS (500. SS-Fallschirmjgärbatallion; then reorganized into the 600th SS) - the so-called unit, which is not subordinated to the Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, as all the other paratroopers, and Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler and differed initially in that it was formed largely from soldiers convicted in the SS for various crimes. Something like "parachute battalions" with a very interesting history. The battalion was used in the last years of the war mostly in the Balkans, so the training units were Mataruska-Bath near Kraljevo in Pápa, Hungary. Some became famous after trying to destroy the headquarters of the Yugoslav resistance led by Bros Tito (Operation "Knight's Move"). The SS parachute battalion also played a crucial role in the occupation of Budapest by the Wehrmacht in the spring of 1944, as part of operation "Margaret's Fall". The German occupation of Hungary led to the deportation of about 200,000 Jews to Poland within a few months. The battalion was later moved to Neustrelitz and replenished. In the future it was planned to use a battalion surrounded by Soviet troops in cities in the East, but in view of the rapid breakthrough of the front, those plans went awry. Instead, the battalion was used in the spring of 1945 in the fighting on the lower Oder. During the retreat from the Soviet troops in Mecklenburg on the West, the battalion surrendered to the Americans in the district of Hagenow. Norway, Belgium and Holland, Crete - these names are firmly connected with the German paratroopers, and the operations carried out there were closely studied by military experts in academies of many countries of the world