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The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, [1] abbreviated as LSSAH (German: 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"), began as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard unit, responsible for guarding the Führer's person, offices, and residences.
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 ...
1st SS Panzer Signal Battalion (Eugene Metz) 1st SS Medical Battalion (Dr Liebrich) 1st SS Admin Battalion (Obersturmbannführer Paul Tauber) 1st SS Repair Battalion (Alfred Gilles) 1st SS Supply Battalion (Klaus Stamp) Note: a SS Panzer Regiment had two Panzer Battalions and a SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment had three Pz-Gren Battalions. [5]
Promoted again toward the end of 1943 and appointed commander of SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 6 "Theodor Eicke", the unit fought the battles of 1943/1944 being pushed back constantly. In March 1944, the Soviets succeeded in breaking through the lines, Ullrich drew whatever troops were available and fought of the attack, halting the breakthrough ...
Herbert Otto Gille (8 March 1897 – 26 December 1966) was a high-ranking German SS officer, and divisional & corps commander of the Waffen SS. He commanded the SS Division Wiking during World War II.
1 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" ... 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" Rank Name Service period SS-Obergruppenführer: Felix Steiner:
5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" ... Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS (1st Romanian) (1944) Free Arabian Legion; Other Waffen-SS units. 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion;
1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, in Steyr, Austria c. 1,600 SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Otto Kumm: May 9 May 9 Made up part of the I SS Panzer Corps Various 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, in Czechoslovakia c. 14,000? Karl Ullrich: May 9 May 9 Germany 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, in Czechoslovakia c ...