Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was organized according to the above table, and served as a standard for all other SS panzer divisions during World War II. The average complement was approximately 19,000. However, only two out of seven SS panzer divisions contained that strength.
3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" (previously SS Panzergrenadier Division "Totenkopf") 4th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Polizei" 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking" (previously SS Panzergrenadier Division "Wiking") 6th SS Mountain Division "Nord" 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" 9th SS Panzer ...
The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland (German: 11. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland") was a Waffen-SS division primarily raised with Germans and ethnic Germans from Romania, but also foreign volunteers from Western Europe. It saw action, as part of Army Group North, in the Independent State of Croatia and on ...
Panzer Division Kempf (part Heer, part Waffen-SS) Panzer Division Kurmark; Panzer Lehr Division (later 130th Panzer Division) Panzer Division Müncheberg; Panzer Division Döberitz (later Panzer Division Schlesien) Panzer Division Tatra (later Panzer Training Division Tatra, 232nd Panzer Division)
A panzer corps (German: Panzerkorps) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The name was introduced in 1941, when the motorised corps (Armeekorps (mot) or AK(mot)) were renamed to panzer corps. Panzer corps were created throughout the war, and existed in the Army, the Waffen-SS and even the Luftwaffe. Those ...
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.
Later the Waffen-SS formed its own panzer divisions, and the Luftwaffe fielded an elite panzer division: the Hermann Göring Division. A panzer division was a combined arms formation, having both tanks ( German : Panzerkampfwagen , transl. armored fighting vehicle , usually shortened to " Panzer "), mechanized and motorized infantry , along ...