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The SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade Langemarck was formed 31 March 1943 when SS-Freiwilligen Legion Flandern was redesignated. It saw action in the Ukraine.

It was redesignated 6. SS-Freiwilligen-Sturmbrigade Langemarck 22 October 1943.

Commander

SS-Sturmbannführer Konrad Schellong (31 May 1943 - 22 Oct 1943)

Order of battle

Stabskompanie
1. leichte Infanterie-Kompanie
2. leichte Infanterie-Kompanie
3. leichte Infanterie-Kompanie
4. schwere Infanterie-Kompanie
5. Infanteriegeschütz-Kompanie
6. Panzerjäger-Kompanie
7. Sturmgeschütz-Batterie
8. leichte Flugabwehr-Kompanie
9. schwere Flugabwehr-Batterie
10. Marsch Kompanie

Recruitment poster
propaganda-brig-langemarck
(Courtesy of Ola)

Sources used

Christopher Ailsby - Hitler's Renegades: Foreign nationals in the service of the Third Reich
Kurt Mehner - Die Waffen-SS und Polizei 1939-1945

Reference material on this unit

Allen Brandt - The Last Knight of Flanders
Richard Landwehr - Lions Of Flanders
Aline Sax - Voor Vlaanderen volk en Führer
Jonathan Trigg - Hitler's Flemish Lions
A. Van Arendonck - Vlamingen aan het Oostfront
Pieter Jan Verstraete - August Claes: Symbool van de Oostfrontgemeenschap
Jan Vincx - Vlaanderen in Uniform 1940-1945