Germany Army Unit Organization 1939-41
Organization of the formations and units of the German Army from the Polish campaign til Operation Barbarossa 1941. In March 1939, the Wehrmacht Supreme Command Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – or …
Divisions
SS-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-Totenkopf-Division (October 16, 1939) SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Totenkopf (November 9, 1942) …
Tiger Battalions
The Tiger Battalions of the German Army in the Second World War 1943 to 1945. Since the first Tiger tanks appeared on the battlefields of the Second World War, they …
12th SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth
Creation and Campaigns of the 12th SS Panzer division Hitler Youth. Designations, commanders, insignia, organization, in Normandy 1944, Battle of the Bulge and in Hungary 1945. The history of the …
9th 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. The history of the 9th SS-Panzer-Division …
Military 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 …
116th Panzer Division ‘Greyhounds’
History of the 116th Panzer Division: formation and operations in 1944-45 of the ‘Greyhound’ Division. The 116th Panzer Division, as well as the Panzer Lehr Division, proved, when new formations …
3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf
Campiagns of the 3rd SS tank division Totenkopf (Part II: from 1943 to 1945). Back to Part I: SS-Totenkopf-Division 1939-42. Russia 1943 Kursk tank battle and the Donez Basin The …
Waffen-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 …
9th 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. To Part I: 9th SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen. Arnhem …
Waffen-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 …
Waffen-SS divisions 13-19
13 Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Handschar, 14 Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (1st Ukrainian), 15 Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (1st Latvian), 16 SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Reichsführer-SS, 17 SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Götz von Berlichingen, 18 SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Horst Wessel, 19 …
2nd 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 After its …
Performance 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 As Rommel had forecast, the …
Waffen-SS divisions 4-6
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 4 – 6 (4 SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division, 5 SS-Panzer-Division Wiking (W), 6 SS-Gebirgs-Division Nord). The Waffen-SS divisions 4 to 6. 4 SS-Polizei-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Raised (as division) October 1940 …
