fuhrer's escort in another car code named column k the k standing for commandant when germany invaded poland in september NUMBER_TOKEN hitler soon drove into the conquered territory behind his advancing armies keen to conduct a tour of inspection of his troops and the front lines expecting serious trouble the rsd and s aspect light commando took no chances and an enormous effort was made to protect hitler's caravan of vehicles although it was early days in the evolution of hitler's vehicular security already the essential components were in place and would be instantly familiar to any american president today the combination of the fuhrer zondesuk hitler's personal armor train and the fleet of ahmed mercedes cars meant that for the polish campaign hitler was able to keep moving his military headquarters hitler established his first fuhrer hq in the east prussian town of bad polson after wehrmacht hq front units had been mobilized on the NUMBER_TOKENrd of august NUMBER_TOKEN his personal train was used arriving at bad polsin station on the NUMBER_TOKENth of september hq troops and a force protection unit were drawn from the elite gross deutschland regiment under the command of colonel rommel the gross deutschland traced its origins back to NUMBER_TOKEN during the unsettled period following germany's defeat in the first world war the new reichsfer was limited to only one hundred thousand men and each of its divisions recruited from within a particular state a guard regiment for the nation's capital was duly created berlin recruiting men from all across the nine reichswehr divisions and in the process becoming the only true german unit in the army its duties were primarily ceremonial providing centuries of the old reich chancellery and guards of honour for state occasions and foreign visits shortly after formation the unit's name was changed to commando de vac trooper or guard troop command and it was based at moabit barracks in central berlin when hitler came to power in NUMBER_TOKEN he left the unit intact though his ceremonial guards were largely from the leibstandata ss adolf hitler the lssah under the control of himmler in NUMBER_TOKEN the commando de vac trooper was renamed vac trooper berlin and a small detachment supplemented the lssah guards at the reich chancery as well as continuing to parade and perform ceremonials throughout the capital it was particularly visible during the NUMBER_TOKEN olympics in NUMBER_TOKEN the unit was renamed again this time becoming vac regement berlin with soldiers posted individually to the unit from all over germany for six-month tours of duty hitler decided to change the name one last time in NUMBER_TOKEN to reflect the national character of the regiment thus it became infantry regement gross deutschland or infantry regiment greater germany at bad polson in poland in NUMBER_TOKEN the gross deutschland regiment provided three security groups group one guarded hitler's train and the minister's train that joined it on the NUMBER_TOKENth of september this group also manned an outer security perimeter for NUMBER_TOKEN metres around the station although local people were still permitted to use the station they were subjected to intense security scrutiny and forbidden to gather in groups group two was held as a reserve while the front group
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