INITIAL FORCES, SEP I 39
Available:
1x 0-8 Cmdo II 800 BL (OKW)
Note: Battalion HQ actually formed after start of war; backdated to cover existing assets.

AUTUMN 39
Available:
1x 0-5 Cmdo II EWZ (OKW)
Note: While not technically part of the Brandenburgers, this unit represents the Abwehr intelligence-gathering effort of the German Resettlement Commission. As such, it would be immediately available should war with the Soviet Union break out unexpectedly. Its personnel and intelligence would be used by the Brandenburgers in 1941.

SUMMER/AUTUMN 40
Convert. 1x 0-8 Cmdo II800 BL (OKW) to: 3x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II I/800, II/800, III/800 (OKW)
Note: Brandenburgers expand to regiment size in June 1940. Operational readiness date of the battalions as parachute troops is unknown; likely several weeks required for training.

MAY I 41
Convert. 1x 0-5 Cmdo II EWZ (OKW) to: 1x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II IV/800 (OKW)
Note: Represents absorption of the EWZ into the Brandenburgers and the activation of the Ukrainian "Nightingales."

NOV I 41
Available:
1x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II V/800 (OKW)
Replacement Pool Remove:
1x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II IV/800 (OKW)

JUL I 42
Available:
1x 1-5 Para-Cmdo III SV Berg (ET)
Note: Mixed formation of Brandenburgers, other German agents, and Soviet defectors, for use in the 1942 offensive.
Convert: 1x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II 1/800 (OKW) to: 1x 1-8 Para-Cmdo II I/SV Br (OKW)
Convert. 1x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II 11/800 (OKW) to: 1x 1-8 Para-Cmdo II II/SV Br (OKW)
Convert: 1x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II 111/800 (OKW) to: 1x 1-8 Para-Cmdo II III/SV Br (OKW)
Convert. 1x 0-8 Para-Cmdo II V/800 (OKW) to: 1x 1-8 Para-Cmdo II V/SV Br (OKW)

DEC I 42
Available:
1x 1-8 Cmdo II vK (OKW)

MAR I 43
Available:
1x 1-8 Para-Cmdo II zbV (OKW)
Note: This unit represents the residual Brandenburger elements left on the eastern front, when the bulk of the Brandenburgers were withdrawn to reorganize.

APR I 43
Reorganize: 4x 1-8 Para-Cmdo II I/SV Br, II/SV Br, III/SV Br, V/SV Br (OKW) to:
1x 3-8 Mtn III 3 Br (OKW)
3x 3-8 Jager III 1 Br, 2 Br, 4 Br (OKW)
1x 1-5 Para II BFJ (OKW)
Note: This unit represents Brandenburg parachute-capable forces used in the Balkans and the Aegean.
1x 1-6 Marine Cmdo II BKJ (OKW)
Note: This unit represents Brandenburg amphibious forces used in the Balkans and the Aegean.
1x 1-8 Jager II BLA (OKW)
Note: This unit represents the Brandenburg legionnaire battalion in the Balkans.
WK III Garrison: 1x 2-5 Repl III 5 BrLr (OKW)

FEB I 44
Convert: 1x 2-5 Repl III 5 BrLr (OKW) to: 1x 2-3-10 mot Inf III BrAl (OKW)
Note: For the occupation of Hungary in March, Brandenburg home-station forces were activated as an "alarm" unit.

JUL I 44
WK XVIII Garrison:
Convert. 1x 2-3-10 mot Inf III BrAl (OKW) to: 1x 3-4-8 Mtn III BrLr (OKW)

OCT II 44
Convert. 2x 3-8 Jager III 1 Br, 2 Br (OKW) to:
Forming: 1x 8-10 mot Inf XX Br
Note: 8-10 mot Inf XX Br is a German Army, not OKW, unit.
Convert: 1x 1-5 Para II BFJ (OKW) to: 1x 1-8 Cmdo II Ost (SS)
Note: This represents Brandenburger elements transferred to the SS for special operations on the eastern front.
Replacement Pool:
Remove:
1x 3-8 Jager III 4 Br (OKW)
1x 1-6 Marine Cmdo II BKJ (OKW)

NOV I 44
Special: Remove 1x 3-8 Mtn III 3 Br (OKW) from the Replacement Pool and Receive:
2x 1-8 Mtn MG II FMK 1, FMK 2
Note: Regiment 3 Brandenburg, operating in Italy, was wound down, with its surviving personnel forming machine gun battalions.

DEC I 44
Full Strength: 1x 8-10 mot Inf XX Br

DEC II 44
Reorganize: 1x 22-10 Pz XX GID, 1x 8-10 mot Inf XX Br, and 2 inf RPs to:
1x 15-10 Pz XX GD
1x 9-10 PzG XX Br
1x 2-3-10 PzG III GD Msk
1x 2-8 mot Art III 500
1x 4-3-8 Pz II GD
Note: The Brandenburg division transferred to the eastern front, where it formed a panzer corps with Grossdeutsch land. Extensive reorganization of divisional assets were required to create a full-functioning corps. (A corps engineer regiment, numbered 500, was also formed, but this was only a headquarters controlling already-existing assets.)

Abbreviations and Names

Brandenburgers

1939: Origins and Early Operations
1940: Triumphs and Expansion
1941: To Africa and Victory in the East
1942-1943: Operations and Re-organization
1944-1945: Eclipse and Defeat
Europa Order of Battle