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SS-Junkerschule Bad Tlz was a Junker school, an ocers training school for the Waen-SS. The school was
established in 1937 and constructed by Alois Degano, in
the town of Bad Tlz which is about 30 miles south of
Munich and the location was seemingly chosen because
it had both good transport links and was in an inspiring location. The design and construction of the school was intended to impress the sta, students, visitors and passersby. A sub camp of the Dachau concentration camp was
located in the town of Bad Tlz which provided labour
for the SS-Junkerschule and the Zentralbauleitung (Central Administration Building). The School operated until
the end of World War II in 1945 and after the war the
former SS-Junkerschule was the base of the U.S. Armys
1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group until 1991.[1]
The SS spared no expense in building the school, the facilities included a football stadium surrounded by an athletics rack; building dedicated to boxing, gymnastics, indoor
ball games, a heated swimming pool and a sauna.[6] The
instructors matched the facilities and at one time eight of
the twelve coaches were the German National champions
in their elds.[6]
Early history
2 Selection
The ocer candidates had to meet stringent requirements
before being allowed into the ocer schools; All SS ofcers had to be a minimum height of 5 foot 10 inches
(5 ft 11 for the Leibstandarte) and had to serve for at
least six months to a year in the ranks prior to being considered for a place at the SS-Junkerschule. Typically,
a Waen-SS member reaching the rank of Rottenfhrer
could choose either to embark on the career path of
an SS-non-commissioned ocer or could apply to join
the ocer corps of the Waen-SS. If choosing the latter, he was required to obtain a written recommendation
from their commander and undergo a racial and political
screening process to determine eligibility for commission
as an SS ocer. If accepted into the SS ocer program,
an SS member would be assigned to the SS-Junkerschule
and would be appointed to the rank of SS-Junker upon
arrival. Situations did exist, however, where SS members would hold their previous enlisted rank while at the
SS-Junkerschule and only be appointed to the rank of SSJunker after a probationary period had passed. This ocer candidate system was to ensure that future SS ocers
had prior enlisted experience and that there were no direct appointments in the Waen-SS ocer corps as was
often the case in other SS branches such as the Gestapo
and also in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).[5][7] (About 150
Norwegians were directly appointed to the Waen-SS
known as the SS-Verfgungstruppe (SS-VT), started to recruit ocers into its ranks. The German Army and its
Prussian heritage looked for ocers of good breeding,
who had at least graduated from secondary school. By
contrast the SS-VT oered men the chance to become
an ocer no matter what education they had received or
their social standing.[2]
In 1936 Himmler selected former Lieutenant General
Paul Hausser to be appointed Inspector of the SS-VT
with the rank of Brigadefhrer, he set about transforming
the SS-VT into a creditable military force that equaled
the regular army and transformed the ocer selection
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ocer corps on account of their training in Norways military. The underperformance by many of them eventually
contributed to front line Waen-SS ocers mandatory
training at the Junkerschule, and 141 other Norwegians
graduated from that training.[8] )
Curriculum
the name Nibelungenlied made famous by Richard Wagner in his opera Ring des Nibelungen.
The division rst saw action in the Landshut area of
Upper Bavaria. The engagement was against American
troops with the 38th actually overrunning a few American positions. The 38th then saw brief action in the Alps
and Danube areas before surrendering to the Americans
on 8 May 1945, in the area of the Bavarian Alps near
Oberwssen, close to the Austrian border.[10]
5 German/US Commanders
6 Notes
[1] Edward Victor. Alphabetical List of Camps, Subcamps
and Other Camps.
[2] Flaherty, p 132
[3] Flaherty, p 146
[4] Windrow, pp 7-8
[5] Flaherty, p 145
[6] Flaherty, p 36
38th SS Division
Asbjrn Svarsta (2012-09-02). 141 nordmenn i WaenSS eliten. Dagbladet. pp. 3033.
Flaherty, p 134
waen ss. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
References
Flaherty, T. H. (2004) [1988]. The Third Reich: The
SS. Time-Life Books, Inc. ISBN 1-84447-073-3.
Hatheway, Jay (2004). In Perfect Formation: SS Ideology and the SS-Junkerschule-tolz. Schier Military History. ISBN 0-7643-0753-3.
Windrow, Martin & Burn, Cristopher (1992). The
Waen-SS, Edition 2. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 085045-425-5.
Coordinates:
474532.57N
47.7590472N 11.5830917E
113459.13E
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