Hi, yeah I rarely get on here these days. The history of the TKV (does that work) is murky at best. Most of them ended up in the waffen ss anyway so far as I can work out, with camp guard duties being handed over to older men or those recuperating from injuries. Also lots of non-Germans recruited in for that kind of work. I imagine some did volunteer for the front and probably got what they asked for, there are also examples of front line staff being rotated back into the camp system for incompetence etc. Trouble is its hard to tell what camps and at what time, I'm not sure if it went on between the waffen ss and the Op.Reinhard camps for example. One fact that is often glossed over is that TKV personnel were used as reserves for the entire waffen ss, not just the 3rd divison, so the "reputation" of the 3rd division really should apply to most other units too.
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The history of the TKV (does that work) is murky at best. Most of them ended up in the waffen ss anyway so far as I can work out, with camp guard duties being handed over to older men or those recuperating from injuries. Also lots of non-Germans recruited in for that kind of work. I imagine some did volunteer for the front and probably got what they asked for, there are also examples of front line staff being rotated back into the camp system for incompetence etc. Trouble is its hard to tell what camps and at what time, I'm not sure if it went on between the waffen ss and the Op.Reinhard camps for example. One fact that is often glossed over is that TKV personnel were used as reserves for the entire waffen ss, not just the 3rd divison, so the "reputation" of the 3rd division really should apply to most other units too.