The National Socialist Driver's Corps (NSKK) formed on April 1, 1930 as a Nazi Party organization intended to encompass all automobile and motorcycle owners under a national headquarters. After the Nazi takeover, NSKK membership swelled with the party's expansion and with the absorption of the German and Austrian automobile clubs, it counted over a half million members. The NSKK served as training cadre for the army transportation services after 1938 and some members were mobilized in support of the West Wall in 1939. Thereafter wartime expansion of the NSKK as an armed auxiliary of the Wehrmacht saw its units behind every front, some being involved in combat when events went badly for German forces.
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