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Ssjunkerschule bad tolz was an ssjunker school, an officers training establishment for the waffenss. The military branch of the nazi ss security organisation grew by the end of world war ii from a handful of poorly regarded infantry battalions in 1939, into a force of more than 30 divisions including units of every type. The waffen ss acted as a military group for the ss, but first started out as a personal guard for hitler. May 14, 2005 a chronology outlines the major events in the history of the waffen ss from the founding of its forerunner, the ss verfugungstruppe, until may 1945. They just hear it and add it to the other faerytales about the waffenss. As a training manual of the waffen ss cited by bernd wegner states, sport arouses belligerence, hardens the will, promotes selfdiscipline, and therefore promotes the training of the ss man to the level of a combateffective fighter. Granaderos acorazados formada por finlandeses, daneses, noruegos y holandeses.