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The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" (German: 9. SS-Panzerdivision "Hohenstaufen") [a] was a Waffen-SS armoured division of Nazi Germany during World War II. It participated in battles on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. [1] The division was activated in December 1942. [2]
Walter Harzer (29 September 1912 – 29 May 1982) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era.He commanded the SS Division Hohenstaufen and SS Polizei Division.. After the war, Harzer became active in HIAG, a lobby group established by senior Waffen-SS men in 1951 in West Germany.
Division Name (in German) Ethnic composition Named after Years Active Insignia Maximum Manpower 1st: Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: Germans and 300 Italians after 8/9/1943: Life Regiment Adolf Hitler: 1933–1945: 22,000 (1944) [2] 2nd: Das Reich: Germans: Greater Germanic Reich: 1939–1945: 19,021 (1941) [1] 3rd: Totenkopf: Germans: Totenkopf ...
The division was ordered north to combat the Allied landing forces in Normandy in June 1944. While Stadler was commander of the Der Führer, a subordinate unit under his command committed the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. On 10 June 1944, part of the regiment, led by SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, killed 642 inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane ...
Born 17 April 1915; at various times served in 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, and the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. Also commanded a Kampfgruppe of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend; Escaped to Argentina after the war and while there assisted Adolf Eichmann in his efforts to avoid capture. 118 826 3 101 992
SS-Obersturmbannführer Mohnke was given command of the 26th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment, which was the second regiment formed in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. [ 13 ] Mohnke was implicated in the killing of 35 Canadian prisoners at Fontenay-le-Pesnel , as part of the Normandy Massacres , albeit he never faced a trial owing to a lack ...
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich – SS-Oberstgruppenführer in the Waffen-SS; original commander of Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH); later commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army. Otto Dietrich – Reichsleiter, Reich Press Chief, Vice-President of the Reich Press Chamber, State Secretary in the Ministry of Propaganda and an SS-Obergruppenführer.