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Wilhelm Bittrich (26 February 1894 – 19 April 1979) was a high-ranking Waffen-SS commander of Nazi Germany. Between August 1942 and February 1943, Bittrich commanded the SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer , in rear security operations ( Bandenbekämpfung , literally: "gang fighting") in the Soviet Union.
The 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" was a German Waffen-SS cavalry division during World War II.It was formed in 1942 from a cadre of the SS Cavalry Brigade which was involved in the Bandenbekämpfung ("bandit-fighting") operations behind the front line and was responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of the civilian population. [1]
Wilhelm Bittrich: 14 October 1941 – 31 December 1941 SS-Obergruppenführer: Matthias Kleinheisterkamp: 31 December 1941 – 19 April 1942 SS-Obergruppenführer: Georg Keppler: 19 April 1942 – 10 February 1943 SS-Brigadeführer: Herbert-Ernst Vahl: 10 February 1943 – 18 March 1943 SS-Oberführer: Kurt Brasack: 18 March 1943 – 29 March 1943
The II SS Panzer Corps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II.It was commanded by Paul Hausser during the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk in 1943 and by Wilhelm Bittrich on the Western Front in 1944.
Wilhelm Bittrich: Waffen-SS combat commander, II SS Panzerkorps: 39177 1934 829700 Ernst Wilhelm Bohle: Leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization: 276915 13 September 1933 999185 Martin Bormann: Secretary of Hitler/Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery 555 1937 60508 Philipp Bouhler
His testimony appears in historian Sara Farmer's 2000 book Martyred Village: ... Wilhelm Bittrich (1894–1979) 14 October 1941: 31 December 1941: 78 days: 3
Wilhelm Bittrich (1894–1979) 15 February 1943: 29 June 1944: 1 year, 135 days: 2: SS-Standartenführer Thomas Müller (1902–?) 29 June 1944: 10 July 1944:
Paul Hausser, also known as Paul Falk after taking his birth name post war (7 October 1880 – 21 December 1972), was a German general and then a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS who played a key role in the post-war efforts by former members of the Waffen-SS to achieve historical and legal rehabilitation.
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