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Re: Feldjagdabteilung d. LW - What is it?
I believe it was the Luftwaffe component of:
Bahnhofs-Wach- und Streifen-Abt. 103
Winter 1944/45 aus der Wehrmacht-Streifen-Abteilung Nordukraine; zuletzt in Prag (HGr. Mitte)
By 1945, these armed forces field police units included components from all branches: Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine. Their main task was to identify slackers and shirkers, and to track down deserters. They and the Feldjagdkommandos were a team. They handed down a lot of street corner summary justice when deserters and suspected deserters were found, and many of them ended up at the business end of a rope hanging from a lamppost.
L.
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