A column of Totenkopf Tiger tanks were caught up in the fighting, and several were lost. 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[11], On 27 May, the 4 Company of the Totenkopf under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, committed the Le Paradis massacre, where 97 soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment were machine-gunned after surrendering, with survivors killed with bayonets. [19] The German Intelligenzaktion resulting in the mass murder of approximately 100,000 Poles, was a major step in the implementation of Sonderaktion Tannenberg (Operation Tannenberg a.k.a. The panzers of 3rd SS Panzer Regiment fought at Kharkov, took part in Operation Citadel, fought in the battle of Krivoi Rog, and the relief of the Korsun Pocket. After two weeks of heavy fighting, again alongside the Panzer-Grenadier-Division Grossdeutschland, the Axis forces were retreated to the Dniestr on the Romanian border near Iaşi. On 29 September the Standarte travelled to Bydgoszcz to conduct an "intelligentsia action". SS-Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 3 SS-Nachrichten-Abteilung 3 SS-San-Abteilung 3 SS-Feldgendarmerie-Kompanie 3 SS-Feldpostamt 3. Bei Kriegsbeginn bestand das Regiment aus zwei Abteilungen mit zusammen 62 Panzer I, 78 Panzer II, 3 Panzer III, 8 Panzer IV und 9 Panzerbefehlswagen. The division became notorious for its brutality, and committed numerous war crimes, including the Le Paradis massacre. Replacement personnel came from Waffen-SS recruits, as opposed to from the camps. Along with Das Reich, Totenkopf took part in the battles to halt Operation Rumyantsev and to prevent the Soviet capture of the city. SS-Division Totenkopf, auch als SS-Totenkopf-Division bekannt, war zwischen dem 16. SS-Oberführer Max Simon was the "official" commander (on paper) of the 3rd SS-Panzer Division from 26 February 1943 to 22 October 1943, but in reality it was SS-Oberführer Hermann Priess who commanded the division in the field during those dates. The relief attempts were to be codenamed Operation Konrad. Together with the SS division DasReich it formed I SStank corps, which arrived too late for the 6th army trapped in Stalingrad, but together t… The Panzer battalion was officially upgraded to a regiment, and the two motorised regiments were given the titles "Theodor Eicke" and "Totenkopf". 第37SS義勇騎兵師団, 3. Im März 1944 wurde der zwischenzeitlich als 3.SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf bezeichnete Verband wieder einmal verlegt, diesmal nach Balta, wo sie als Nachhut die Rückendeckung des Rückzugs der Heeresgruppe B übernahm. Februar 1941 wurde diese Standarte in SS-Infanterie-Regiment 11 umbenannt, die VT-Division erhielt nun den offiziellen Namen SS-Division „Reich“ (mot.). The Totenkopf, which had expanded into a Panzergrenadier division in France – but now actually even had thetank strength of an army Panzer division type 1943 – returned to theEastern front at the beginning of 1943 because of the Stalingrad crisis. 第25SS武装擲弾兵師団 フニャディ（ハンガリー第1） Weitere Ideen zu waffen ss, ritterkreuzträger, kriegerin. 第6SS山岳師団 ノルト In October 1943, the division was reformed as 3.SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf . GORDON WILLIAMSON: "The SS Hitler´s Instrument of the power"; published by KAISER; appendix, page 244, "Schlachtordnung der Waffen-SS / Waffen-SS order of battle"; copyright 1994 by Brown Packaging Books Ltd., London. In the early morning of 9 July, 6th SS Motorised Regiment Theodor Eicke attacked northwards, crossing the Psel and attempted to seize the strategic Hill 226.6, but failed to do so until the afternoon. 9月前半には、同師団はドニエプル川まで後退したが、ソ連第5親衛装甲軍の部隊はクレメンチュグでドニエプルの突破を意図しており、トーテンコップ師団は橋頭堡への戦闘に投入される。その間、1943年10月にトーテンコップは正規の装甲連隊を持つ装甲師団に改編されている。 第28SS義勇擲弾兵師団 ヴァロニェン（ワロン第1） The division was then moved north, back to Kharkov. On 21 May units of the 1st Army Tank Brigade, supported by the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, overran Totenkopf positions, their standard anti-tank gun, the 3.7 cm PaK 36, being no match for the British Matilda tank. 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Zusammen mit der SS-Division Reichbildete sie das I. SS-Panzerkorps, welches zwar für die in Stalingrad eingeschlossene 6. In several battles near the town of Modlin in mid-August, the Totenkopf, fighting alongside the SS Division Wiking and the Hermann Göring Division destroyed the Soviet 3rd Tank Corps. In the afternoon of 12 July, near the village of Andreyevka on the south bank of the Psel, the Soviet forces launched a major counterattack against Regiment Thule and the division's battalion of assault guns during the Battle of Prokhorovka. It was during February 1943 that the 3rd SS Panzer Regiment received a company of Tiger I heavy tanks. The Totenkopf was initially formed from concentration camp guards of the 1st (Oberbayern), 2nd (Brandenburg) and 3rd (Thüringen) Standarten (regiments) of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, and soldiers from the SS-Heimwehr "Danzig". The 3rd SS Panzer Regiment was formed in France in late 1942, and transferred to the Eastern Front in early 1943 where it fought for the rest of the war. Soldiers of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf break for a meal beside the wreck of a Soviet T-34 somewhere in Romania, 1944. 第8SS騎兵師団 フロリアン・ガイエル SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf")[1] was one of 38 divisions of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. 第35SS警察擲弾兵師団 第3SS装甲師団 トーテンコップ（だいさんSSそうこうしだん―、独：3. [6] At the time of the Battle of France, the division was equipped with ex-Czech weapons.[7]. 師団の高い死傷率により、1943年後半には実際には元々の人員が入れ替わるほどの被害を受けていた。続く東部戦線の戦いにおける師団の記録では残忍な戦争犯罪は残されていないが、残忍な評判は残存し続けた。, 第1SS装甲師団 ライプシュタンダーテ・SS・アドルフ・ヒトラー SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Totenkopf"）は、ナチス政権下における武装親衛隊に38個存在した師団のひとつ。トーテンコップはドイツ語で骸骨、髑髏（どくろ）を意味することと、この師団の構成員が強制収容所維持管理及び警備を担当する親衛隊髑髏部隊（SS-Totenkopfverbände、通称SS-TV）から抽出されたことから、髑髏師団とも呼ばれる。, 1940年フランス侵攻ではA軍集団に編入されるが、5月20日、戦闘経験に乏しい同師団はアラスでマチルダII歩兵戦車等を擁する英軍装甲部隊の反撃を受けて敗走した。結局、フランス戦期間中、同師団は、士官300人以上を含む大きな損害を被った。, 1941年4月、バルバロッサ作戦でレニングラード方面を担当する北方軍集団に編入された。リトアニアとラトビアで戦闘を行い、7月までにスターリンラインを突破、7月31日から8月25日にかけて激しい戦闘を行いながらデミャンスクを経てレニングラードに達した。その後、ソ連軍最初の冬期反攻によりデミャンスクで包囲され、激しい戦闘により戦闘団規模になるほど消耗したが、1942年春に友軍戦線に合流し、再編成のためフランスへ向かった。, フランスでの再編成で装甲擲弾兵師団となり、1943年2月の第三次ハリコフ攻防戦で増援として投入され、第1SS装甲師団、第2SS装甲師団とともにハリコフを奪還した。なお、この戦闘期間中、師団長テオドール・アイケが航空機で連絡のとれなかった麾下部隊の捜索中に乗機を撃墜されて戦死している。師団は遺体回収のため敵の戦線を突破し、アイケは完全な軍葬の礼で埋葬された。 第10SS装甲師団 フルンツベルク Two men survived with injuries, and were hidden by locals until they were captured by German forces several days later. At Demyansk, about 80% of its men were killed, wounded or missing in action. In October 1943, the division was reformed as a Panzer division. [4] The Totenkopf was initially formed from concentration camp guards of the 1st (Oberbayern), 2nd (Brandenburg) and 3rd (Thüringen) Standarten (regiments) of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, and men from the SS Heimwehr Danzig. The city was abandoned on 23 August due to the threats on the German flanks. The regiment participated in a number of battles, and would be reduced and rebuilt a number of times. Am 10. SS-Unterscharführer der Totenkopf-Division als Panzerkommandant. In the Second Battle of Târgu Frumos, elements of the division, together with elements of the Grossdeutschland, managed to halt an armoured assault by the Red Army. 第3SS装甲師団 トーテンコプフ SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 Deutschland - See 2. The SS Division Totenkopf was formed in October 1939. SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich SS-Panzer-Regiment 3 - See 3. This meant that the northern advance slowed and the majority of the division was still south of the Psel, where elements of 5th SS Motorised Regiment 5 Thule continued to advance towards Prokhorovka and cover the flank of the Leibstandarte. The regiment participated in a number of battles, and would be reduced and rebuilt a number of times. SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Deutschland" Aufgestellt am 22. After the failure of the first operation, Totenkopf and Wiking launched an assault aimed at reaching the city centre. The division arrived at the Warsaw front in late July 1944. 3. »Generalplan Ost« zur Versklavung osteuropäischer Völker. 第18SS義勇装甲擲弾兵師団 ホルスト・ヴェッセル 第5SS装甲師団 ヴィーキング During the July–August battles for Hill 213 and the town of Stepanovka, the division suffered heavy losses, and over the course of the campaign on the Mius-Front, it suffered more casualties than it had during Operation Citadel. In the second week of March, after a fierce battle near Kirovograd, the Totenkopf fell back behind the Bug River. 第16SS装甲擲弾兵師団 ライヒスフューラー・SS The encircled troops capitulated in mid-February. Kursk tankbattle and the Donez Basin. The efforts of the Totenkopf, Wiking and Hermann Göring divisions allowed the Germans to hold the Vistula line and establish Army Group Vistula. In January 1944, Totenkopf was still engaged in heavy defensive fighting east of the Dniepr near Krivoi Rog. The 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" (German: 3. 第34SS義勇擲弾兵師団 ラントシュトーム・ネーダーラント（オランダ第2） SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 - See 2. The attack was launched on New Year's Day, 1945. 1944年8月1日、ワルシャワ蜂起が発生したが、同師団は鎮圧には投入されなかった。8月中旬、モドリン近郊の激戦で第4SS装甲軍団はソ連第3装甲軍（ポーランド赤軍師団を含む）を壊滅させた。10月10日に始まった攻勢でも、ヴィスワ川とブーク川の合流点付近で阻止に成功しており、同軍団がハンガリーに移送されるまでソ連軍のワルシャワ侵攻を許さなかった。（西側寄りであったワルシャワ蜂起勢力が壊滅するまで、ソ連軍はワルシャワ侵攻を手控えていたとの説もある。）, 1944年12月、ハンガリーのブダペストで包囲された第9SS山岳軍団を救出するため、第4SS装甲軍団は密かにハンガリーに送られ、1945年1月1日にブダペスト北西部より同市を包囲するソ連軍に奇襲攻撃をかける。当初は奇襲効果で突破に成功したが、険しい地形とソ連軍の頑強な抵抗により攻勢は停滞。機甲戦に向いたブダペスト南西部より攻勢を再開、ダニューブ川（ドナウ川）までの突破に成功するが無防備となった突破側面の防衛とソ連軍の抵抗増大により、それ以上の攻勢は不可能となりバラトン湖のラインまで後退する。, アルデンヌから移送された増援の第6SS装甲軍に編入されて、1945年3月の春の目覚め作戦が発動される。しかし春の雪解けによる泥濘とソ連軍の反撃により作戦は頓挫し、重装備のほとんどを失ってオーストリアへ敗走した。, 1945年5月にリンツで米軍への降伏を試みるが、結局ソ連に引き渡され、多くの者が処刑されるか、残された者も過酷な収容所生活を送り、生還できた者は僅かであった。, トーテンコップは他のSS師団とは異なり、SS-TV(強制収容所の看守)をベースに編成された。この部隊の構成員は、テオドール・アイケや、マックス・ジモン、ヘルムート・ベッカーなどのナチ指揮官によって訓練・指導を受けた。 アイケは兵に無情さをすり込み、そして、ダッハウでの独自の訓練の間、部隊は通常時、強制収容所での囚人の看守業務も行っていた。師団の基幹となったSS-TVの第3連隊がポーランドで実戦を経験し、数名が戦争犯罪にかかわったとも言われている。 Members of other SS militias were also transferred into the division in early 1940; these units had been involved in multiple massacres of Polish civilians, political leaders and prisoners of war. [10] Overall in the actions around Cambrai the division captured 16,000 troops. The SS Panzer Corps, including the division, was then shifted north to take part in Operation Citadel, the offensive aimed at reducing the Kursk salient. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Totenkopf"3. 第29SS武装擲弾兵師団 （イタリア第1） The Totenkopf division stayed in France for refitting until April 1941. The main organisation structure of this SS formation was as follows:[23], Battle of Kursk and retreat on the Eastern Front, Official designation in German language as to "Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv“ in, "Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933–1945“ p. 93, Ullrich, Karl "Wie Ein Fels Im Meer" pg. Its name, Totenkopf, is German for "death's head" – the skull and crossbones symbol – and it is thus sometimes referred to as the Death's Head Division.[2]. The 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen held open a route which could be used to withdraw – the Berhida Corridor – and Gille's corps escaped the encirclement. During the fighting in the pocket, it was re-designated Kampfgruppe Eicke due to its reduced size. The SS Division Totenkopf was formed in October 1939. For this operation, the division was supplied with a tank battalion and redesignated 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf. SS-Panzerregiment 12 werd op 3 november 1943 opgericht in Mailly-le-Camp.Het regiment maakte bij oprichting deel uit van de 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend en bleef dat gedurende zijn hele bestaan. SS-Totenkopf-Division (mot.) To qualify for the Knight's Cross, a soldier had to already hold the 1939 Iron CrossFirst Class, though the Iron Cross I Class was awarded concurrently with the Knight's Cross in rare cases.Unit commanders could also be awarded the medal for exemplary conduct by the unit as a whole. [21] They are today buried in the Tata of Chasselay. The Panzer abteilung was upgraded to a regiment, and the two Panzergrenadier regiments were given the honorary titles Theodor Eicke and Thule. With the advance slower than had been planned, Hausser ordered his II SS Panzer Corps to split in two, with the Totenkopf crossing the Psel River northwards and then continuing on towards the town of Prokhorovka. The 3rd SS Panzer Regiment was formed in France in late 1942, and transferred to the Eastern Front in early 1943 where it fought for the rest of the war. Book Summary: The 3. [15][need quotation to verify] In early July, the division was ordered to the area near Grodno in Poland, where it formed a part of SS-Obergruppenführer Herbert Gille's IV SS Panzer Corps, covering the approaches to Warsaw near the Modlin Fortress. Am 10.05.1945 ging er als Sturmmann in englische Gefangenschaft. 第23SS義勇装甲擲弾兵師団 ネーデルラント（オランダ第1） Panzer-Regiment 69 - Formed 3 Jan 1944 from Panzer-Regiment Feldherrnhalle, redesignated Panzer-Regiment 116 5 May 1944 Panzer-Regiment 100 - Formed 22 Dec 1941 and redesignated Panzer-Abteilung Großdeutschland 5 Feb 1942, reformed 8 Dec 1942, assigned to Panzer-Brigade 100 and reassigned to 21. Die meisten Soldaten der Division gehörten zum Jahrgang 1926 und waren demnach 1943 mit 17 Jahren aus der Hitlerjugend angeworben worden, deshalb bezeichneten sie die Alliierten auch als „Baby-Division“. However, the relief forces could not achieve their goal, despite making a 24-kilometre bulge in the Soviet forces line and destroying the 135th Rifle Corps. Despite initial gains, Konrad I ran into heavy Red Army opposition near Bicske and during the battle the 1st Battalion, 3rd SS Panzer Regiment's commander, SS-Sturmbannführer Erwin Meierdress was killed. 第33SS武装擲弾兵師団 シャルルマーニュ（フランス第1） The 6th Army was tasked with eliminating the Soviet bridgehead over the Mius River. What these measures involved is demonstrated by the record of SS Totenkopf Standarte "Brandenburg". During this campaign, Theodor Eicke was killed when his spotter aircraft was shot down. 第27SS義勇擲弾兵師団 ランゲマルク（フラマン第1） In February 1943 the division was moved back to the Eastern Front as part of Erich von Manstein's Army Group South. Official designation as to "Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv“ in, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Panzer-Grenadier-Division Grossdeutschland. La 2 e division SS « Das Reich » ou la division « Das Reich » [a] (appellations allemandes successives : la SS-Verfügungsdivision, puis la SS-Division « Reich » (mot.) The assault, which in many aspects bore similarities to those of the later British Operation Goodwood, was carried out by approximately 500 tanks. The SS Panzer Corps, including Totenkopf, was then shifted north to take part in Operation Citadel, the offensive aimed at reducing the Kursk salient. Kompanie of the 1st Panzergrenadier Regiment, 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler were formed in the summer of 1933. 第4SS警察装甲擲弾兵師団 数カ月におよぶクレメンチュグ橋頭堡をめぐる戦闘の後にソ連軍は突破に成功したため、11月には、同師団はドニエプル西岸の重要都市クリヴォイ・ログの防衛戦に従事した。年が変わり1944年1月においても、トーテンコップはクリヴォイ・ログ近郊で激しい防衛戦に従事しており、同師団とグロースドイッチュラント師団によりソ連軍の突破が回避されていた。, 1944年2月、独軍5万6000がコルスンで包囲される。この救出を支援するため同師団はチェルカッシーに向かった。（最終的に第1装甲師団が友軍救出に成功している。）3月の2週間目には、キロボグラードの近くの激闘の後に同師団はバクー川後方に後退し、4月に入りルーマニアまで後退したところでようやく再編成に入ることができた。 By the time the Soviet bridgehead was eliminated, the division had lost 1,500 troops; the Panzer regiment was reduced to 20 tanks. The Germans were driven back to the positions they had held before Operation Spring Awakening began. The 3rd SS Panzer Regiment was formed in France in late 1942, and transferred to the Eastern Front in early 1943 where it fought for the rest of the war. The 3. The division, along with other Axis formations, continued its retreat towards the Romanian border. When first formed a total of 6,500 men from the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Camp SS) were transferred into the Totenkopf Division. It arrived in Włocławek on 22 September 1939 and embarked on a four-day "Jewish action" that included the burning of synagogues and the execution en-masse of the leaders of the Jewish community. In December 1944, the IX SS Mountain Corps (Alpine Corps-Croatia) was encircled in Budapest. 第30SS武装擲弾兵師団 （白ロシア第1） Most of the battle group's personnel had been transferred to the Waffen SS from concentration camp guard units, which were known collectively as SS-Totenkopfverbände; others were former members of Selbstschutz: ethnic German militias that had committed war crimes in Poland. 第29SS義勇擲弾兵師団 RONA（ロシア第1） Dietrich's army made "good progress" at first, but as they drew near the Danube, the combination of the muddy terrain and strong Soviet resistance ground them to a halt. Armee zu spät eintraf, aber zusammen vernichteten sie die russische 6. Hitler ordered the IV SS Panzer Corps to redeploy south to relieve the 95,000 Germans and Hungarians trapped in the city. 第26SS武装擲弾兵師団 （ハンガリー第2） [17] Attacking the line between the Totenkopf and the Hungarian 2nd Armoured Division, contact was lost between the two formations. SS-Panzerj ä ger-Abteilung 3 przekazał 17 dział szturmowych do 8./SS-Panzer-Regiment 3 - która bez tego nie przedstawiałaby żadnej wartości bojowej - oraz do 5./SS-Panzer-Regiment 3. In the second week of April, Totenkopf took part in fighting against a heavy Soviet Army attacks towards Second Battle of Târgu Frumos. Later, to the northeast of Cambrai, Totenkopf captured several villages from French Moroccan troops in house-to-house fighting. The Le Paradis massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland" bildades i maj 1943 samlades de norska frivilliga ur Regiment Nordland samt veteraner ur Den Norske Legion, i det nya regementet SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 23 "Norge" . SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 36 versetzt wurde. Operation Konrad III got underway on 20 January 1945. It reached as far as Budapest's northern suburbs, by 12 January motorised infantry of the Wiking division spotted the Hungarian capital's skyline. 第3SS装甲師団 トーテンコップ （だいさんSSそうこうしだん―、独： 3. Thereafter, the division worked together with Großdeutschland Division to carry out racially motivated murders of hundreds of captured black African members of the French Army. La 3e division SS « Totenkopf » ou la division « Totenkopf », Totenkopf signifiant « tête de mort » (appellations allemandes successives : la SS-Division Totenkopf, puis la SS-Panzergrenadier-Division „Totenkopf“ et enfin la 3. [20] In October 1939, these Totenkopfverbände troops formed the core of the 3 Totenkopf Division, of which Eicke became the commander. The terrain around Modlin is excellent for armour, and Totenkopf's panzers exploited this to their advantage, engaging Soviet tanks from a range where the superiority of the German optics and the 75 mm high-velocity gun gave the Panthers an edge over the T-34s. For example, on 19 and 20 June 1940, Totenkopf and Großdeutschland together carried out a series of massacres of captured African soldiers in the Chasselay area, murdering about captured 100 Senegalese Tirailleurs. Panzer-Division was formed on 15 October 1935 at Wünsdorf. Re: SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 3 "Deutschland" Post by Pena V » 25 Jul 2010, 10:18 Now that I knew what I should be looking for I found this: Sbf Hans Bissinger was the CO of Panzergrenadier-Regiment/KG "Das Reich" 17 Dec 1943 - 28 Dec 1943. On 19 May, Totenkopf suffered 16 dead and 53 wounded while killing 200 Moroccan soldiers and capturing another 100 men. The regiment participated in a number of battles, and would be reduced and rebuilt a number of times. By November, the division was engaged in fighting against Red Army's attacks over the vital town of Krivoi Rog to the west of the Dniepr. Weitere Defensivaktionen in Rumänien ließen die Divisionsstärke weiter abnehmen. After the collapse of the German Army Group Centre, the IV SS Panzer Corps was one of the few functioning formations on the central section of the Eastern Front. With the invasion of Poland, Theodor Eicke – who was the commandant of the Dachau concentration camp, inspector of the camps, and murderer of Ernst Röhm – joined the fray with one cavalry and four infantry regiments. 第15SS武装擲弾兵師団 （ラトビア第1） SS-Panzer-Regiment 3 On 8 March 1942, the German leadership ordered the establishment of a Panzer-Abteilung (tank battalion) for the Totenkopf Division. 第31SS義勇擲弾兵師団 00.12.1943 - Auflösung der SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 3 und Neubildung aus SS-Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 3. SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf")was one of 38 divisionsof the Waffen-SSof Nazi Germanyduring World War II. [8] The division was committed on 16 May to the front in Belgium. Along with the SS Division Das Reich, the division was reassigned to General Karl-Adolf Hollidt's reformed 6th Army in southern Ukraine. Totenkopf took part in the advance through Lithuania and Latvia, and by July had breached the Stalin Line. Unternehmen Tannenberg) of installing Nazi officials from SiPo, Kripo, Gestapo and SD to head an administrative machine in occupied Poland, leading to the Generalplan Ost colonization programme. After they escaped from being surrounded, the Nordland effected a fighting withdrawal over 60 kilometres to Oranienbaum. The division, as a part of SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser's II SS Panzer Corps, took part in the Third Battle of Kharkov, blunting the Soviet offensive. Armee. Oktober 1939 und 9. The first attack was Konrad I. SS-Panzerregiment 3 werd op 14 oktober 1942 opgericht in Frankrijk uit de pas opgerichte Panzer-Abteilung SS-Div. SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf SS-Panzer-Regiment Das Grenadier Regiment 3 Wir schreiben das Jahr 1944. The division then advanced past Demyansk to Leningrad where it was involved in heavy fighting in August. In February 1944, Totenkopf took part in the relief attempt of German troops encircled in the Korsun Pocket. Members of other SS militias were also transferred into the division in early 1940; these units had been involved in multiple massacres of Polish civilians, political leaders and prisoners of war. [16] As the offensive stalled, the Soviets forces counterattacked in strength on 16 March. SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf (a partir del 22 de noviembre de 1943), compuesta por: SS Panzer-Regiment 3 Totenkopf SS Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 5 Thule SS Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 6 … They murdered captured black soldiers on account of their race, which they believed to merit their separation and execution. Named Operation Konrad II, the attack was launched on 7 January from just south of Esztergom. The Germans machine-gunned the men after surrendering, with survivors killed with bayonets. After running out of ammunition, the defenders surrendered to the German troops. The division was formed through the expansion of Kampfgruppe Eicke, a battle group named – in keeping with German military practice – after its commander, Theodor Eicke. Nordland, along with the rest of III. 第24SS武装山岳猟兵師団 第19SS武装擲弾兵師団 （ラトビア第2） The remnants of the division retreated into Czechoslovakia where it surrendered to the American forces on 9 May. 4. They occupied and defended a farmhouse against an attack by Waffen-SS forces in the village of Le Paradis. 第30SS武装擲弾兵師団 （ロシア第2） SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 Der Führer - See 2. The Red Army then launched the Vienna Offensive which destroyed any resemblance of an organised German line of defence. 第7SS義勇山岳師団 プリンツ・オイゲン On 20 September 1936 the men from the Ist and IInd Battalions of Panzer Regiment 6 was asked if they wanted to volunteer for a foreign assignment, almost all of them agreed and were transferred to Spain forming the Gruppe Imker of Legion Condor. On 14 January 1944, the Soviet Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha Offensive succeeded in collapsing the German front, and the Nordland fought its way back again to the city of Nar… On 22 March, the Red Army encirclement of the Totenkopf and Wiking was almost complete. Februar traf die Division aber ein schwerer moralischer Schlag, als Divisionskommandeur Theodor Eicke getötet wurde, als sein Beobachtungsflugzeug, indem er mitflog, durch konzentriertes Infanteriefeuer von in de… In the first week of April, the division received replacements and new equipment, including Panther tanks. Leeb's force was tasked with advancing on Leningrad and formed the northern wing of Operation Barbarossa. [9] Soldiers from Totenkopf executed many captured Moroccans, due to Arabs being considered "racially inferior". It was during February 1943 that the 3rd SS Panzer Regiment received a company of Tiger I heavy tanks (9th Company/3rd SS Panzer Regiment). 第17SS装甲擲弾兵師団 ゲッツ・フォン・ベルリヒンゲン The order was back-dated to 5 March 1942 on an order calling for the establishment of a separate Panzer-Abteilung for the Das Reich Division. 師団の戦争犯罪で、唯一の記録された例として、フランス侵攻での数日間、ル・パラディの町で100名弱の英軍ロイヤル・ノーフォーク連隊将兵を処刑した事件がある。指揮官のフリッツ・クノッホライン（de:Fritz Knöchlein事件当時、SS大尉）は、ロイヤル・ノーフォーク連隊が1899年のハーグ陸戦条約に違反してダムダム弾を使用していたとして起訴し、処刑を行った。しかしながら、この主張はあり得そうに無い。なぜなら戦争の期間中、独英の小火器は全て完全被覆弾（フルメタル・ジャケット）が使用されていたからだ。ただし、現場において銃剣等で弾頭に切込みを入れてダムダム弾同様の効果をあげる弾薬を使用していた可能性はある。ちなみにこれは他国の軍隊でも同様のことは行われていた。（小説等で良く見かける表現だが、弾頭部に切れ込みを入れた場合、発砲と同時に銃身内で弾芯と被覆が分離し、意味がないばかりか、そのまま連続発砲すると銃身破壊に至る。ただし、弾頭の構造によっては問題ない場合がある。）戦後、彼は戦争犯罪で有罪判決を受け、絞首刑にされた。