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part of the Russian campaign, was static nsd in the central sector of the
Russian front following the operations of the Waffsn-SS» ' It became the nor-
niaJ channel for the personal business of the RF-SS. Prom there his decrees
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one. orders to lower echelons of SS organization were Issued,
The chief of the SS adjutancy, Ofoersturmbannftlhrer Uerner Gr^thmann,
was commanding officer of the Feldkommandostelle% his assistants were
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HauptsfoTflffthrer Peipar (1st Adjutant), Sturmbaiuifflhcrr.Kacher (Adjutant
for the Waffen-SS). Major Volinar (Ad Jul ant of the Reserve Army), Oberat«-
koutnant Suchannek (Police Adjutant), Heuptsturmfflhgar Schnitzlex (Chief of
the adjutancy/, and Hiss Dreyer (Chief woman secretary). Grothmann's pre-
decassors were Graf Dohna, adjutant in 1941 and 1942, and Conrad, who held
the post from the end of 1943 to the end of 1944«
Other officers in the FeIdkommancostelie in a more personal i*elt.tion-
shio with the Rf-SS werf Kriminalrat Kiermeier (Chief of Himmler 5 s Personal
Body Guard), Dr0 Rudolf Brandt, (Hlmnlar's personal, adviser and coordinator
of all medical affairs), Obersturmführer Grieger (personal aide). Dr. Mueller
(personal physicirji) and Hfti?.pftsturnftth':e.r Lukas (Himmler*s chauffeur)«
Just before the fall ox Germany, the RF-SS wats acting through the
following liaison officers» Gruppenfffk.-e:? Ohlendorf (between Himmler and
Doenitz); Obersturmbannführer i>alz and Fsgelfi'in (betv;een RF-SS atd Eitler);
Sturmbannführer Werth (between Himnlc** and Kaltenbrunner).
Including Wa?;Ten^SS Flak, Signal, «ind Escort battalions, the total
strength of tlr? Feldkommandstelle was belisved to be over 3,000» The HQ staff
was divided as followsJ
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