32nd SS-FREIWILLIGEN-GRENADIER-DIVISION '30.JANUAR'

The SS Division '30. Januar' was one of the last SS-Divisions formed during World War II and was almost entirely composed of training units and 16-18 year old boys (the honorary name '30. Januar' was the same date Hitler became Reich chancellor in 1933). First planned as a motorised division, the unit ended up as a normal infantry division because of a lack of fuel. With a final strength of 12,000, they fought on the Oder-front south of Frankfurt/Oder. After the Soviet attack on 16 April 1945 they were wiped out in the pocket of Halbe southeast of Berlin.