Unusual Assault Troops

[AOK4]

I think the men of Landsturm Battalion Chemnitz XIX/11 were just a patrol to protect or search for something, as they never saw frontline action, they were guarding the rear areas of the 4th Army, Armee-Abteilung C, Heeresgruppe Kronprinz and 7th Army during the war. The 1st Company served as a guard for a French POW company. No need for stormtroops there at all.

The armbands may be related to the guarding of POWs as these wore (yellow) armbands as well.

[Thomas W]

I think the men of Landsturm Battalion Chemnitz XIX/11 were just a patrol to protect or search for something, as they never saw frontline action, they were guarding the rear areas of the 4th Army, Armee-Abteilung C, Heeresgruppe Kronprinz and 7th Army during the war. The 1st Company served as a guard for a French POW company. No need for stormtroops there at all.

The armbands may be related to the guarding of POWs as these wore (yellow) armbands as well.

You may be right. On the other hand, these men have no ammunition pouches. They appear to be carrying their bullets in their tunic pockets, which is another reason I identified them as assault troops. Armbands, bullets in pockets, the use of the word Patrouile, and the fact that they're from two, possibly three different companies indicates to me that they're part of an assault unit. Whether it was an actual assault unit or simply one set up because everyone else was creating them, it's impossible to say.