narwa

As a part of the III. Germanische SS Panzer Korps the 11. Freiwilligen Panzer Grenadier Division "Nordland " was transfered to the Oraniumbaum Pocket in November 1943.

In January 1944 the III. Germanische SS Panzer Korps was forced to retreat to the bridgehead at Narwa.

At Narwa the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark" was heavely engaged in the defence of the bridgehead.

Along with the rest of the "Nordland" Division the Regiment held the lines until July 1944 then the III. Germanische SS Panzer Korps had to retreate to the Tannenberg Lineand.

In September the III. Germanische SS Panzer Korps along with Armee Abteilung "Narwa" were evacuated into Latvia, into the pocket of Kurland.

Soldiers from the III. Bataljon SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark" at Yamburg, January 1944

Soldiers from the III. Bataljon SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark" at Oranienbaum, January 1944

Troops from the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark" on the retreat from Yamburg to Narwa, January 1944

Soldiers from the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark" inside Hermannsburg in Narwa

Soldiers from the 12. Kompanie SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark" at Narwa 1944

SS Unterscharführer Friedrich Löck

A volunteer from Nordschleswig and a veteran from the SS Infanterie Regiment "Nordland".

Friedrich Löck was later transfered to the

Regimentsstab

SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark"

and was killed at Prekuhn in Latvia in October 1944

Letter to Friedrich Löck`s young wife, telling that he had been killed.

The letter is signed by SS Obersturmführer Erik Vagn Fenger

Kompanieführer at the Regimentsstab

SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark"

Wilhelm Efsen

From Apenrade in Nordschleswig

Efsen served as a SS Untersturmführer and Adjudant at the

III. Bataljon

SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark"

and was killed at Auwere in Estonia on 26.07.1944

To brothers from Denmark.

Both volunteered to the Waffen SS and both served with the

11. Kompanie

SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark"

Peter Sörensen	Martin Sörensen
SS Sturmmann	SS Sturmmann
Born 17.01.1920 in Mellerup	Born 04.10.1921 in Tondern
Killed on 23.11.1944 at Alzpurves-Libjl in Latvia	Killed on 29.07.1944 at Narwa in Estonia

Johannes Koopmann

From Tingleff in Nordschleswig.

SS Untersturmführer and Kompanieführer in the

7. Kompanie

SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark"

Koopmann was killed at Narwa on 12.06.1944

Oluf Lausen

A volunteer from Nordschleswig.

Lausen served as SS Sturmmann in the

14. Kompanie

SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 24 "Danmark"

Lausen was killed on 15. July 1944 at Narwa