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Waffen SS 18th Panzer Grenadier Collar Tab

WSS 18th Panzer Grenadier Divison - Horst Wessel Collar Tab: Black wool with machine embroidered SA, the vet removed the buckram stiffener from this tab then pasted it in a scrapbook, not many survived the war, light wear.

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The 18th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Horst Wessel" was formed in 1944 around a cadre from the 1st SS Infantry Brigade and included mainly ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) from Hungary. The 1st battalion of about 1000 men was attached to SS Division Horst Wessel and sent to Galicia.

The 18th SS PGD was used for "rear-security" duties until it was sent to the Eastern front, with the exception of one regiment that fought the Slovak National Uprising in August 1944. The Horst Wessel Division was under-manned and lightly armed with a strength that varied from 8,000 to 11,000 men. It later fought as a single unit in Hungary and later in Czechoslovakia where it was destroyed.