The Soldier In The Squad

  • At right is an excellent video from Military History Visualized that focuses in detail on how the German squad was equipped and deployed.
  • Be sure to download Soldier in The Squad below. It shows you how to adapt the original doctrine for reenacting.
  • ​At the bottom of the page are sources and a link to a lesson on the U.S. Rifle Squad, so you can compare.
Download The Soldier In The Squad here:
soldier_in_the_squad.pdf
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For a comparison to U.S. infantry squad of the same era, click below:
https://reenactorpro.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Lesson-1-the-Rifle-Squad-2.pdf
Source and Further Reading:

Instruction Manual For The Infantry

Vol. 2a
The Rifle Company
16. March 1941

Fully translated by John Baum

available for purchase at https://www.germanmanuals.com/REmanuals.html
200 pages
Price is $32

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

​See photo gallery below showing the table of contents.

This is the source material for much of what we've put into our training program and much more.