Waffen-SS divisions 13-19
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 13 (Handschar) – 19 (2nd Latvian) Bizarre as some of these formations on this page were, however, it must be remembered that the elite SS Panzer and Panzer-Grenadier...
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Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 20 (1st Estonian) – 25 (Hunyadi) In these numbers range of the Waffen-SS divisions there are also some lesser known and bizarre formations, in addition to some with...
View ArticleWaffen-SS divisions 26-32
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 26 (2nd Hungarian) – 32 (30 Januar) Many of the following listed divisions were purely fictitious, in the sense that orders for their formation and deployment seldom...
View ArticleWaffen-SS divisions 33-38
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 33 (3rd Hungarian) – 38 (Nibelungen) Several of this last nominal ‘divisions’ of the Waffen-SS fielded no more than a few hundred ill-equipped men scrambled together...
View ArticleSS Division Reich
Creation and Campaigns of the SS-Verfuegungsdivision (later Reich) from 1939 to 1942 (Part I). Designations SS-Oberscharführer of the Germania-Regiment of the SS-Verfügungs-Division during the Western...
View Article2nd SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich
Operations of the 2nd SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich 1943-45 (Part II). Here to Part I: Creation and Campaigns of the SS-Verfuegungsdivision (later Reich) from 1939 to 1942. Russia 1943 A Tiger tank from...
View Article5th SS Panzer division Wiking
Creation and Campaigns of the 5th SS Panzer division Wiking. SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Felix Steiner as commander of the 5th SS-Panzer-Division Wiking at the issue of orders in 1943. Designations The crew...
View Article12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth
Creation and Campaigns of the 12th SS Panzer division Hitler Youth. A 7.5 cm Pak 40 of the Hitler Youth Division, hidden in a ‘bocage’ hedge in Normandy in June 1944. Designations...
View ArticleWaffen-SS divisions 4-6
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 4 – 6 (Polizei, Wiking, Nord) 4 SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Policemen of 4 SS Polizei division. Raised (as division) October 1940 (taken into Waffen-SS in...
View ArticleWaffen-SS divisions 1-3
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 1 – 3 (LAH, Reich, Totenkopf) Between early 1943 and until the end of World War II the ‘Order of Battle’ of the Waffen-SS rose from 8 to 38 divisions with nearly one...
View Article1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte-SS-Adolf Hitler
Creation, organization, commanders, actions, particularities and the end of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte-SS-Adolf Hitler. Designations SS-Stabswache Berlin (March 17, 1933)...
View ArticleLSSAH Campaigns
1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte-SS-Adolf Hitler (Part II) The campaigns of the LSSAH. back to PART I: Designations, Commanders, Creation, Organization, Particularities and the End of LSSAH...
View ArticlePerformance on the Western Front
German military performance against the Western Allies in France and on the German frontier in 1944. back to Part III: Military performance in Italy 1943-44 Infantry of the US XX Corps move forward...
View ArticleMilitary performance
The German military performance during World War Two. Part III of the assessment of the fighting power of the Wehrmacht in WW2. back to Part II: Wehrmacht vs US Army German paratroopers with a 7.5-cm...
View ArticleSS-Totenkopf Division
Creation of the SS-Totenkopf (Death’s head) division (T) and the campaigns in the West 1940 and Russia 1941-42 (Part I). Designations SS-Unterscharfuehrer (Corporal) of the Totenkopf Division in the...
View Article3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf
Campiagns of the 3rd SS tank division Totenkopf (Part II: from 1943 to 1945). Russia 1943 Kursk tank battle and the Donez Basin. Death head’s soldiers inspect a KV tank that they knocked-out and...
View ArticleWaffen-SS divisions 7-12
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 7 (Prinz Eugen) – 12 (Hitlerjugend) The Waffen-SS divisions from this and the previous page were Germany’s most effective troops of WW2. Waffen-SS divisions 4-6. 7...
View ArticleGermany Army Unit Organisation 1939-41
Organization of the formations and units of the German Army from the Polish campaign til Operation Barbarossa 1941. German infantry 1940 in street combat. Top Organization Hitler along with Brauchitsch...
View Article9th SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen
Creation and Campaigns of the 9th SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen. Designations, commanders, formation in 1943, first action Russia in spring 1944 and in Normandy from June. Infantry of the 2nd...
View Article9th SS Hohenstaufen from Arnhem to the end
Campaigns of the 9th SS-Panzer Division Hohenstaufen (Part II). From Arnhem, in the Ardennes and to Hungary to the end of the war. StuG assault gun of the II SS Tank Corps with the Hohenstaufen...
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