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The SS Division Hitlerjugend or 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" (German: 12. SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend") was a German armoured division of the Waffen-SS during World War II. [7] The majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior NCOs and officers were from other Waffen-SS divisions.
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 ...
Commander 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" 1900–1959: also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS und der Polizei: Hans Krebs: Honorary Gauleiter and a Regierungspräsident in Reichsgau Sudetenland: 1888–1947: Executed for treason in Czechoslovakia Gustav Krukenberg Inspector of the French Waffen-SS Voluntary formations: 1888–1980: also ...
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
12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" Rank Name Service period SS-Brigadeführer: Fritz Witt: 31 July 1943 – 14 June 1944 SS-Standartenführer: Kurt Meyer:
During the Normandy Campaign, Waffen-SS Standartenführer Kurt Meyer, commander of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, used the Abbaye d’Ardenne for his regimental headquarters, as its towers gave a clear view of the battlefield. [4] In June 1944 at the abbey, 20 Canadian soldiers were murdered by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division.
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 ...
The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out by rail for Normandy at the end of March, 1944. On 1 April, their train was approaching the gare d'Ascq , a junction where three railroads intersected, when an explosion blew the line apart, causing two cars to derail.