 Its staff included regimental commander SS-"Standartenführer" Sylvester Stadler, SS-"Sturmbannführer" Adolf Diekmann commanding the 1st Battalion and SS-"Sturmbannführer" Otto Weidinger, Stadler's designated successor who was with the regiment for familiarisation.Command passed to Weidinger on 14 June.Early on the morning of 10 June 1944, Diekmann informed Weidinger that he had been approached by two members of the Milice, a collaborator paramilitary force of the Vichy Regime.