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The SS-Verfügungstruppe or shortly SS-VT (in Dutch: support group of the combat forces) was founded in 1934 after joining several Nazi and extreme right-wing paramilitary formations. Two regiments were formed, one in northern Germany with the so-called SS-Standarte "Germania", and one in the south of Germany the so-called SS-Standarte "Deutschland". In the fall of 1933, Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard (initially known as SS-Standards 1) was asked in Munich to replace the Chancellor's bodyguard in Berlin. In early 1934, this SS bodyguard was renamed Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler" (LSSAH).
The SS Verfügungstruppe was seen as the armed arm of the Allgemeine SS and the Nazi party. They were a parallel army next to the Wehrmacht Lord. The SS regiments "Deutschland" and "Leibstandarte" took part in the occupation of the Rhine in 1936, after which some occupied Austria in March 1938. After the Anschluss of Austria, the Austrian SS Regiment "Der Führer" was founded, led by Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Arthur Seyss-Inquart. The Austrian SS was officially under the command of SS commander Heinrich Himmler, but acted independently in Austrian affairs.
By the end of 1938, the SS-VT units were partially placed under the command of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and on 10 October 1938 they were classified in the SS Verfügungsdivision (short: V-Division) led by SS Brigadeführer Paul Hausser .
Under Hausser, the V-Division was trained into an elite combat unit that participated in the occupation of the Sudetenland (1938) and the Polish campaign (1939). The V-Division never fought as a single unit but was always subdivided into smaller units and divided into several Wehrmacht Lord units. Thus, the regiment "Der Führer" was seconded to the 207. Infantry Division as a stoot group.
In 1940, after the invasion of France, the V-Division was renamed Reich, and at the same time, "Reich" and other SS-VT units, together with the SS-Totenkopf Standards of Theodor Eicke, were assigned to new Kommandoamt der Waffen SS and from then on it was called Waffen-SS.
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