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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.
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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.
Field Marshal Walter Model (left) conversing with Wilhelm Bittrich in the Arnhem sector. Under a creeping barrage in the morning mist, Kampfgruppe Volker, supported by Tiger II tanks, struck at Heuvel against the 7th Green Howards, the left-hand battalion of the 50th Northumbrian Division's 69th Brigade; here fighting raged all day.
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:
As of 1977, Wilhelm Bittrich served as the chairman. [17] HIAG membership was open to convicted war criminals, with the group's position being to absolve them of their responsibility. For example, the group openly embraced and advocated on behalf of Dietrich, Walter Reder, and Herbert Kappler, former SS men convicted of wartime massacres. [18]
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger, SS General; Walter Krüger, SS General; Georg von Küchler, German Army Field Marshal; Friedrich Landfried, German lawyer, State Secretary and Luftwaffe Major; Otto Lasch, German Army General; Johann von Leers, SS Major and Propaganda Ministry official; Karl Lenz, NSDAP Gauleiter of Hesse-Darmstadt; Arthur ...
Wilhelm Koppe: Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Warthegau 1939–1943; East (General Government) 1943–1945; State Secretary for Security in the General Government: 1896–1975: also: General der Waffen-SS; imprisoned 1960–1962 Paul Körner: SS-Ehrenrang; Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; State Secretary of Prussia and the Four Year Plan ...