Obedient Unto Death might not be a masterpiece, yet it is still quite substantial to try.
In current mainstream sources about battle of Tarnopol, there was a self-propelled gun company from LAH among the ranks of the garrison as below. And as the story goes, this company might 99% perished during the horrible, desperate siege…
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Von Neindorff and his deputy, Colonel Carl-August von Schoenfeld, now had about 4,500 men to defend the city (Tarnopol). They included troops from Demba Fusilier Battalion, the 500th Proving Battalion, and the III Mitcherling Battalion, 4th SS Volunteer Regiment, of the 14th SS Galizien Volunteer Infantry Division. Also included were an Alert Company Vogel. The 359 th Infantry Division provided two battalion from the its 949 th Grenadier Regiment (commanded by von Schoenfeld), the IV/359th Artillery Regiment (three batteries), and the 2nd Company of Engineer Battalion 359.
A six-gun self-propelled artillery battery form the 1th SS gave the garrison an added punch, and antiaircraft fire would be provided by the seven guns that remained from the 4th Battery, 384th Flak Battalion. — See Pat Mctaggart, 2013, Death of a Garrison. “WWII History”, June 2013, p. 49.
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Yet as the real LAH, Werner Kindler, described, this company had not only managed to escape the siege, but also returned to what it’s belongs as a probably most integrated subordinate unit after being through the ferocious winter campaigns on the east.
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March 25th 1944 found me at Proskurov, which we abandoned next day. I left town aboard the last vehicle, a motor-cycle with sidecar, and rejoined my company, led by SS-Sgt Haferstroh, at Stanislau. Part of it went to make up a Battle Group under SS-Sgt Thiele, but Haferstroh sent me off an NCO’s course at Debica.
SS-2/Lt von Bergmann was detailed to take charge of two Grilles . Upon arriving at the railway station there he discovered four more Grilles on the transport train. He decided at once to take them all so that in Flanders the Company had six Model M Grilles again. (Bernd von Bergmann, interviews 29 April 1992, 22 May 1997.) — See Werner Kindler, 2014, “Obedient Unto Death”, p. 127.
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