SS_Ski_Jäger_Battalion_"Norwegen"
SS Ski Jäger Battalion "Norwegen"
Military unit
The SS Ski Jäger Battalion "Norway"[1] (Norwegian: SS-Skijegerbataljon "Norge", German: Freiwilligen-Schikompanie-Norwegen) was a combat battalion unit within the German Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. It consisted of a majority of volunteers from Norway, and some enlisted German soldiers. Most officers and non-commissioned officers were Norwegian.
It was formed in February 1942 and attached to the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord (although the company was formally a police unit). By the winter of 1943 the company was designated as a combat battalion, with three full infantry companies and a staff company. For almost its entire career, the battalion was part of the 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord", fighting on the Karelian Front in Finland.
In the Battle of Kaprolat in 24–26 June 1944, more than 150 of the battalion's soldiers went missing in action, when two of the battalion's positions (with a total of 190 soldiers) were overrun.[2]