Speaking of the formation order of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Division, Reinhardt ordered the recruitment of 15,000 order police in advance to supplement a group of SS soldiers who had studied in military schools in order to alleviate the Wehrmacht's concerns about insufficient troops.
Commander, order to expand to division level troops.
Its division commander was SS Lieutenant General Colander Icharel, who had just finished studying at the Munich Military Academy. Before that, Colander was just a police lieutenant general.
Just in time, the original elite 4th SS Infantry Division was split into three secretly newly created infantry divisions as the skeleton. The designation of this 4th Division was handed over to the newly created Police Division.
The division was basically completed at the end of August. In addition, Reinhard deliberately delayed the start of the Polish campaign in order to wait for the Soviet army to attack Poland first. This allowed the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Division to catch up with September 15th.
The Polish campaign broke out in full force, and I was lucky enough to participate in this war.
At the same time, most of the elite SS troops were still cleaning their guns or patrolling in the Siegfried Line to the west. In addition, they were conducting boring training all day long.
Since more than 90% of the soldiers of the 4th SS Panzergrenadier Division are former order police, the overall quality and training level are different from those of regular troops. In addition, the equipment of this division is mainly obtained from the capture of Czechoslovakia.
Weapons and combat effectiveness are not favored.
Prior to this, the division had always been held in reserve by Lundstedt. In the Battle of the Buzula River, the only time Army Group South was able to dispatch its reserves, it was also because of the 30th Infantry Division.
They fought tenaciously and lost the need to dispatch.
The current Fourth Division of the SS, because its equipment as a grenadier is basically not in place, it is almost an infantry division with average equipment. Therefore, most of them are embarrassed to call themselves a grenadier division, but prefer to call themselves a grenadier division.
The nickname of their police division.
The lack of vehicles does not mean that they cannot drive. Since most of the soldiers in this division are members of the police, nearly 90% of the people in the division have driver's licenses, a characteristic that police officers have learned.
But now, taking into account the division's high morale, complete organization, and the superior combat effectiveness displayed by other SS units of the same type, Lundstedt decided to put this reserve team into the Battle of Warsaw and use it as an offensive
The spearhead!
Considering that both the SS Weapons Experimental Regiment and the Police Division were affiliated with the SS, it would be better to work together as one unit, so Rundstadt arranged for the two armies in black uniforms to merge.
With the help of these police division comrades with the Wolf's Hook military emblem, the weapons experiment group quickly obtained various supplies such as black tea, coffee, cigarettes, candies, etc.
The crew members of the experimental group who were running all the way quickly refreshed themselves with Qingyang brand cigarettes and swallowed a few candies that could quickly replenish energy to restore their physical strength.
The mechanics of the experimental group also took advantage of the break to conduct final pre-war inspections of the engine and transmission system.
"The SS Special Weapons Experimental Group was ordered to report under Lieutenant General Colander Ishaler!"
They were all members of the SS, and the Weapons Experimentation Group, led by their leader, Colonel Knuckles, skillfully raised their hands and saluted the two black uniformed staff officers who came to greet them.
For several days, the friendly forces around them have been officers and soldiers of the National Defense Forces. Every time they raised their hands to salute the officers and soldiers of the National Defense Forces, and the other side responded with a raised hand salute, they would feel a strange sense of dissonance.
But now, everyone is a colleague of the SS, and the two staff officers who returned the greeting also used the familiar hand-raising salute: "Thank you for your hard work, go to the rest area on the right to have a cup of coffee to refresh yourself. By the way, who is here?"
Is it Colonel Knuckles?"
"That's me!" Hearing the roll call, Knuckles turned and looked at the officer who spoke: "Is there anything you want to explain?"
"Our division commander, Lieutenant General Colander, attacked the Polish army for the first time, so I wanted to talk to you about your views on the Polish army and your combat experience. I heard that you just participated in the attack on the Modlin Fortress and defeated the troops entrenched there.
Poles." This staff officer had long heard about the achievements of Knuckles and others, and he could not hide his inner admiration when he spoke at this moment.
Knuckles was actually very embarrassed about his admiration for his staff and Lieutenant General Colander's gaze. In their original battle at Modlin Fortress, they basically relied on the decisive advantage of technical equipment to crush the Polish army.
There are no tactics worth learning from.
The police division doesn't have assault guns, so where did they learn Knuckles' tactics?
However, the warm hospitality was hard to reject, so Knuckles went with two staff officers to Colander's division headquarters to focus on some of his experiences.
At the headquarters of the police division, Colander did not wait idlely, but had been discussing the battle situation with the three regiment commanders under his command.
Seeing Knuckles striding into the division headquarters with the two staff officers, Colander put down the telescopic pole in his hand this time and walked towards Knuckles from the wall hanging a map of Warsaw: "Colonel! You are here.
It's so timely! We are studying how to attack the complicated barricades outside Warsaw city."
Without a word of nonsense, Kolland went straight to the point and raised the current difficulty: "Although four consecutive days of air raids have greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Warsaw garrison, Commander Lundstadt also captured a
Just after the air raid ended, two divisions commanding the 10th Army invaded the city of Warsaw."
While listening to Colander's introduction to the war situation in Warsaw, Knuckles followed Colander to the huge map of Warsaw where he was standing just now.
When they saw the two people walking to the wall of the map that had marked the internal defense zone of the Polish army city based on the news returned by the reconnaissance plane, the staff officer who stayed at the division headquarters stood up and introduced Colander in detail: "According to the information we obtained,
According to intelligence, the Polish army has built approximately 25 main barricades inside the city, and there are also many scattered soldiers stationed in various major buildings. These are the biggest problems we have to face next."
The Polish army can still organize such a defense line, and much of the credit belongs to Filipowicz, who once led the army on the Eastern Front to repel Timoshenko and now returned to Warsaw to take charge of the garrison.
This general who accidentally became the commander of the Warsaw city defense can be said to be the only good general in Poland today.
In the original history, he once led Poland's only armored brigade and became a thorn in the side of the German armored forces, repeatedly delaying the German advance.
Nowadays, although the Polish army has disbanded its armored brigade due to the influence of Reinhardt, a time traveler, Filipowicz, a good general of the Polish armored forces, has also become a cavalry division commander.
However, he still deserves the title of "Poland's No. 1 General"!
When fighting on the Eastern Front, Timoshenko applied for air force support several times in one day and organized more than ten large and small multi-point charges, but he still failed to break through the thin line of defense organized by Filipovitz.
After rushing into the Western Front, although not ready yet, Wittmann, the tank wizard of the 1st SS Armored Division, defeated an elite cavalry battalion with two tanks.
Subsequently, although the 13th Cavalry Division under Filipowicz was unable to survive the pursuit of the 1st SS Armored Division, it still barely escaped the pursuit and retreated all the way back to Warsaw.
Returning to Warsaw, Filipowicz gathered the remaining remnants of his headquarters into a short cavalry battalion and kept it as a reserve.
At the same time, he also quickly mobilized a large number of workers and militiamen who stayed in Warsaw to take to the streets, build barricades, dig trenches, and deliver ammunition. Temporary barricades and firepower points in buildings were soon established.
It can be said that Poland's last capable general independently supported the last resistance of the Polish army and postponed the date of Poland's subjugation!