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Hitler's Baby Division

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Commander SS Brigadier General Fritz Witt (35)*<br />

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25th Pz. Gren. Regiment SS Colonel Kurt Meyer (32)*<br />

I. Battalion SS Major Erwin Horstmann (31)<br />

II . Battalion<br />

III. Battalion SS Major Johann Waldmüller (31)*<br />

26th Pz. Gren. Regiment SS Lt. Colonel Wilhelm Mohnke (31)*<br />

I. Battalion SS Major Bernhard Krause (33)*<br />

II. Battalion SS Captain Gerhard Bremer (26)*<br />

III. Battalion SS Captain Hans Scapini (30)*<br />

Artillery Regiment SS Lt. Colonel Fritz Schröder (36)<br />

I. Section SS Major Erich Urbanitz (34)<br />

II. Section SS Major Karl Bartling (32)<br />

III. Section<br />

Panzer Regiment 12 SS Major Max Wünsche (28)*<br />

I. Battalion SS Captain Thilo Beck (32)<br />

II. Battalion SS Captain Arnold Jürgensen (32)*<br />

Panzer-Jäger (riflemen)<br />

Anti-aircraft Battalion SS Major Walter Ford (28)<br />

Reconnaissance Battalion SS Captain Erich Olboeter (26)*<br />

Signal Section SS Captain Reinhard Klauenreich (30)<br />

Engineer Section SS Captain Max Müller (39)<br />

Reserves Commander SS Captain Rolf Kolitz (30)<br />

Medical Detachment SS Captain Peter Lintz (29)<br />

Administration Battalion SS Major Dr. Wilhelm Kos (32)<br />

The youthful character of the division not only worried the RJF but also<br />

Goebbels, who feared that Allied propaganda might interpret it as a sign of<br />

desperation, which lt clearly was. Allied intelligence did refer to the “<strong>Baby</strong><br />

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