00:00Not much has become known about the so-called Brandenburger after World War II, and what has been reported about
00:08them since then should often be taken with a great deal of caution.
00:12Everything began with the Brandenburger right before the start of the war on the 1st.
00:18On September 1, 1939, when Reserve Lieutenant Siegfried Graubert, on the orders of Admiral Canaris, formed a company of ethnic
00:28German volunteers, which, during the Polish campaign, had been transferred as the Bowler Construction Training Company, ZBV 800, to Brandenburg
00:38under Havel, into the General Feldzeugmeister Barracks on Magdeburger Street.
00:43The ZBV stood for, for special use. There, at the beginning of 1940, Captain Theodor von Hippel established the Bowler
00:52Construction Training Battalion, ZBV 800, which was subordinate to Abwehr II with three training companies.
00:59After numerous new recruits joined in mid-1940, the battalion became overcrowded, and on the 1st.
01:08June, it was reorganized into the Training Regiment, ZBV 800 Brandenburg, after which its members were increasingly referred to simply
01:17as the Brandenburgers.
01:18The 1st battalion remained in Brandenburg, while another battalion was formed near Baden in Lower Austria.
01:25The 2nd Mountain Infantry Battalion was stationed both at Weilburg Castle and in Bad Veslau at the Hotel Stefanie.
01:33The 3rd battalion was stationed in Duren, after the Brandenburg Training Regiment had also grown more and more on the
01:4220th.
01:43On November 1942, the division-like Special Formation Brandenburg was formed from it, consisting of four regimental-type units.
01:51Then, on the 1st, on April 1943, the Special Unit was renamed to Brandenburg Light Infantry Division, removed from Abwehr
02:01Department II, and placed directly under the Wehrmacht Operations Staff.
02:06From now on, it was mostly deployed in the Balkans for anti-partisan operations.
02:12On September 8, 1944, near Belgrade, the last reorganization of the Jäger Division took place, now becoming the Panzergrenadier Division
02:22Brandenburg, with two Jäger regiments, on the 20th.
02:26On December 20, 1944, it was merged with the Panzergrenadier Division Grossdeutschland to form the Hecht Army Panzerkorps Grossdeutschland, until
02:36after heavy losses in combat on the 9th.
02:38On May 9, 1945, the division was dissolved by the division commander, Major General Schulter Hoythaus, near Deutschbrot, in East
02:49Bohemia, with many soldiers falling victim to the incited mob.
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