Waffen-SS Counterattack to break Kovel encirclement (1944)

Combat footage. German Wartime Newsreel.

The 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Wiking" was sent to assist in the defence of Kovel, currently threatened by strong Soviet forces. Gille led his men towards the town and began setting up a defensive perimeter. However, soon the Soviets had completed the encirclement of the city. The II./5.SS-Panzer-Regiment Wiking, newly equipped with Panther tanks, along with the III./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment Germania, newly equipped and up to strength arrived at the front from Germany and immediately began forming a relief unit.

The unit was formed under the command of SS-Obersturmführer Karl Nicolussi-Leck, commander of 8.Kompanie/II.Abt./5.SS-Panzer-Regiment Wiking. Nicolussi-Leck immediately launched an attack with five Panthers. Soon after beginning the attack, he received a radio message from the besieged commander to halt his attack and withdraw. Nicolussi-Leck ordered his radio operator to ignore the call, and continued his attack. Risking court-martial, Nicolussi-Leck then proceeded to fight his way though the Soviet encirclement, destroying several Soviet tanks in the process. His Panther was the first vehicle to break the encirclement, and for his actions he received the Knight's Cross.

After the relief force established a corridor to the encircled force, the withdrawal began. Unlike the previous encirclement at Korsun, the trapped force managed to escape with most of its equipment intact, and the division was ready for action immediately.

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[TheArko1490]

I m not a german or a nazi..........but i have great respect 4 wehrmacht and waffen -ss as they r the best ever fighting unit in the history of warfare

[MultiJanche]

@Zonnewende88 If u read books i give u in the previously conversation...You can understand that your questions about all "kinds" of SS do not take place to be..But I see that it 's easier for you to think that you are right and to offend people...like a little boy of...12? 14 old? However keep this kind of energy....to back to school. Full of french shit? Hooooo at least you learn fast the insults for lack of the History...as i pity u...

[Vanyaaynav]

Agony of the third Reich

[MultiJanche]

@Zonnewende88 For answer, take my last message.

[Zonnewende88]

@MultiJanche Rest my case...You dont argue, you are just trying to find your way out of a discussion by behaving like an illiterate, not a historian.

You are full of it.

[MultiJanche]

@Zonnewende88 "take a good hard look at myself"?..form a small racist who knows nothing about History or who refuses to know what it really happened(And especially the waffen ss it's really...really grave) But I believe its too late and you are too stupid so that I made you an boosted History course..

"Complete idiot"? U progress..

[Zonnewende88]

@MultiJanche Are you making any sense to yourself right now? I doubt it.

You could go into the "discours" and adress your arguements, you rather refuse to and just make wild assumptions about age etc.

Have a great time being pittyful, but first take a good hard look at yourself, complete idiot

[Zonnewende88]

@MultiJanche You sad gullible idiot, still claiming he studied and knows history. You ever studied the SS? Algemeine SS/ Waffen SS or Totenkopfverbande/ Einsaztzgruppe? And the difference between them?

You are full of french sh*t

[Zonnewende88]

@MultiJanche I have given you sources which claim otherwise. You still need to give one valid source which claims Waffen SS men were all insane......

[MultiJanche]

@Zonnewende88 HOooooooouuu same player play for the second time...Hardly well to say the same bullshit(again and again)..If I was you, I would take time to study the History Instead of believing that you are right..

[Zonnewende88]

@MultiJanche A reply I expected. Now piss off French frog.