By Gordon Williamson, Stephen Andrew
The army department of the Nazi SS safeguard agency grew by way of the tip of global struggle II from a handful of poorly seemed infantry battalions in 1939, right into a strength of greater than 30 divisions together with devices of each variety. Their battlefield popularity assorted broadly, from the most desirable armoured divisions which shaped Germany's completely trustworthy spearheads on either major fronts, to low caliber 'anti-partisan' devices. The divisions lined during this moment of 4 titles contain the 1st mountain and cavalry devices, and of the awesome new Panzer divisions raised within the nice 1943 growth. Illustrated with infrequent pictures from inner most collections, the textual content info their agency, uniforms and insignia, and summarises their conflict list.
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SS-Panzer Division Hitlerjugend 34, 35 16. SS-Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS 2 1 , 22 17. SS-Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen 36,38 2 1 . SS-Division Skanderbeg 14 22. SS-Freiwilligen Kavallerie Division Maria Theresia 19 Wehrmacht 1st Gebirgs Division 13 169th Infantrie division 5 256th Volksgrenadier division 8, 9 361st Volksgrenadier division 8, 9 Dubrovnik 12, 13 Eastern Front 14-16, 18-20, 22, 38, 41 uniforms F, H, 4 6 - 7 , 47 EinsatzStaffeln battalions 12 Elbe River 36, 42 Falaise Pocket 24, 39 Fegelein, SS-Obersturmbannführer Waldemar 44 Fegelein, SS-Standartenführer H e r m a n n 17, 19, 43 Finland armistice with USSR 7 Finnish forces 5 - 7 Frost, Lieut.
SS-Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen, for whose nucleus the 10. Division had to surrender part of its artillery and the motorcycle companies from its Panzer-grenadier regiments. In March 1944, as part of II SS-Panzerkorps. the incomplete Frundsberg was sent with Hohenstaufen to the Eastern Front to counter the great Soviet advance which had steamrollered over Army Group Centre and threatened the Polish frontier, trapping German forces - including 1. SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and a battlegroup from 2.
They were brought under heavy fire from Tiger tanks on Hill 112, and the reappearance of Hohenstaufen made the British position even more tenuous. Nevertheless, they hung on to the area they had seized on Hill 113 while the Tigers of sSS-Pz Abt 102 and a battalion from SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 21 remained firmly in control of Hill 112, until finally relieved by the Army's 271. Infanterie Division. Frundsberg, having now lost well over 2,000 men since the beginning of July, was then withdrawn for a brief period of rest.