5th SS Panzer division Wiking
Creation and Campaigns of the 5th SS Panzer division Wiking. Designations, commanders, creation, Russia 1941, Caucasus 1942-43, Eastern Front 1944 and Hungary 1945. The Wiking-Division was the first foreign volunteer …
Divisions
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 …
SS Division Reich
Creation and Campaigns of the SS-Verfuegungsdivision (later Reich) from 1939 to 1942 (Part I). Designations, Commanders, Western and Balkans campaigns and in Russia. Designations Panzerverband Ostpreussen (September 10, 1939) SS-Verfügungs-Division …
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 …
Waffen-SS divisions 26-32
Order of Battle Waffen-SS divisions 26 (2nd Hungarian) – 32 (30th January). Many of the following listed divisions were purely fictitious, in the sense that orders for their formation and …
Waffen-SS divisions 20-25
20 Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (1st Estonian), 22 SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division Maria Theresia (Volunteer cavalry division), 23 Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Kama (2nd Croatian Mountain division), 23 SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Nederland, 24 SS-Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Karstjaeger …
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 …
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 …
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. Designations 9th SS-Panzergrenadier-Division (February 1943) SS-Panzergrenadier-Division …
Germany Army Unit Organisation 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 …
Waffen-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. …
3rd 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. The Totenkopf, which had expanded into a …
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) …
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 …
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 …