SS_Brigade_Westfalen
SS Brigade Westfalen
Military unit
The SS Brigade Westfalen also known as SS Ersatz Brigade Westfalen[1] was an ad hoc unit composed of the men of the military training commands of the Paderborn area and the 507th Heavy Panzer Battalion. The unit was committed into battle in March 1945 in an unsuccessful attempt to stop American troops from encircling Army Group B in the Ruhr Pocket.