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All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. [1] Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally recruited from those groups. Many of the higher-numbered units were divisions in name only, being in reality only small battlegroups (Kampfgruppen).
Panzer Division Kempf (part Heer, part Waffen-SS) Panzer Division Kurmark; Panzer Lehr Division (later 130th Panzer Division) Panzer Division Müncheberg; Panzer Division Döberitz (later Panzer Division Schlesien) Panzer Division Tatra (later Panzer Training Division Tatra, 232nd Panzer Division)
1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" (previously SS Division "Verfügungs", later SS Panzergrenadier Division "Das Reich") 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" (previously SS Panzergrenadier Division "Totenkopf") 4th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Polizei"
The 6th Panzer Army was made up of the I SS Panzer Corps (the 1st and 12th SS Panzer Divisions) and the II SS Panzer Corps (the 2nd and 10th SS Panzer Divisions). Also present but not part of the 6th Panzer Army was the IV SS Panzer Corps (the 3rd and 5th SS Panzer Divisions). This final German offensive in the east began on 6 March.
Panzergrenadier divisions of the Waffen-SS (8 P) Pages in category "German panzergrenadier divisions" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Later the Waffen-SS formed its own panzer divisions, and the Luftwaffe fielded an elite panzer division: the Hermann Göring Division. A panzer division was a combined arms formation, having both tanks ( German : Panzerkampfwagen , transl. armored fighting vehicle , usually shortened to " Panzer "), mechanized and motorized infantry , along ...
10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg; 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend This page was last edited on 17 April 2016, at 07:21 (UTC). Text is ...
Rank Name Service period SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer: Paul Hausser: 19 October 1939 – 14 October 1941 SS-ObergruppenführerWilhelm Bittrich: 14 October 1941 – 31 December 1941