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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]
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 ).
The 10th SS Panzer Division was sent south to respond to the American landings at Nijmegen and to defend the "island" (the polder between the Nederrijn and Waal rivers), while the 9th SS Panzer Division would defend Arnhem. The 9th SS Panzer Division was in the midst of preparing to return to Germany and Harmel was in Berlin trying to secure ...
9th Panzer Division (previously 4th Light Division) 10th Panzer Division; 11th Panzer Division; 12th Panzer Division (previously 2nd Motorized Infantry Division) 13th Panzer Division (previously 13th Infantry Division, 13th Motorized Infantry Division; later Panzer Division Feldherrnhalle 2) 14th Panzer Division (previously 4th Infantry Division)
8th Panzer Division; IX SS Mountain Corps; 9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 11th Panzer Division; 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) 14th Panzer Division; 16th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 18th SS Mountain Police Regiment; 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg; 22nd Air Landing Division; 23rd Waffen ...
Panzer divisions were the key element of German success in the blitzkrieg operations of the early years of World War II. Later the Waffen-SS formed its own panzer divisions, and the Luftwaffe fielded an elite panzer division: the Hermann Göring Division.
The 9th Panzer Division was a panzer division of the German Army during World War II. It came into existence after 4th Light Division was reorganized in January 1940. The division was headquartered in Vienna , in the German military district Wehrkreis XVII .
He ordered elements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen—located outside the pocket—to attack Hill 262. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] At 09:00 the 8th Infantry Battalion's positions around the Zameczek (Polish: small castle) to the north and northeast of point 262N were assaulted, and it was not until 10:30 ...