The 126th SS-Standarte was a small unit of the Allgemeine-SS that was formed in late 1944 towards the end of World War II

World War II

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. Based out of the city of Marburg

Marburg

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, the Standarte was formed from surrounding SS commands of the General-SS that had lost most or all of their members to war-time needs and conscription

Conscription

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The unit was never listed as having a commander and mainly existed only on paper. For a short time, the unit was known as the "126.SS-Standarte Marburg-Drau

Drava

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". The 126th SS-Standarte was formally disbanded upon the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Reference

• Yerger, Mark C. Allgemeine-SS: The Commands, Units, and Leaders of the General SS, Schiffer Publishing (1997). ISBN 0-7643-0145-4