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	3.SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf
		The 3rd SS Division was formed from the Totenkopf units that took part in the Polish Campaign and with other members of the Totenkopfverbande and the Allgemeine SS.
		Freikorps Danemark, was attached to the 3rd SS Division.
		The Division stayed on defensive operation in the south and central sector of the German front for nearly a year, and during this time, in October, 1943, the Division was reformed and renamed as a Panzer Division.
	www.feldgrau.com /3ss.html (1098 words)

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		The SS-Panzerkorps was to attack the southern flank of the salient as the spearhead for Generaloberst Hermann Hoth's 4.Panzer-Armee.
		The division was pulled back to the west, executing a fighting withdrawal from Budapest to the area near Lake Balaton, where the 6th SS Panzer Army under SS-OberstgruppenfÃ¼hrer Josef Dietrich was massing for the upcoming Operation FrÃ¼hlingserwachen.
		The division's original cadre was drawn from the SS-TotenkopfverbÃ¤nde (concentration camp guards), as opposed to the other Germanic SS Divisions which were formed from the SS-VerfÃ¼gungstruppe.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=3rd_SS_Division_Totenkopf (3103 words)

	Buy SS-Totenkopf: The History of the 'Death's Head' Division 1940-45 by Chris Mann - Shop Online
		Especially with the 'Totenkopf' division the constant reminder that the origin of the division was in the concentration camps and the division should be guilty by association.
		The totenkopf division was formed at the beginning of WWI in Honor of Emperor Francis Ferdinand's assasination.
		It is true that 1 regiment of the totenkopf was involved with concentration camps, but the division was mainly a frontline unit the entire part of the war.
	www.mircscripts.com /shop/0760310157/SS-Totenkopf_The_History_of_the_Deaths_Head_Division_1940-45.html (318 words)

	Like a Cliff in the Ocean: A History of the 3rd SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf
		The book is a detailed but overall general history of the division from its inception in 1939 until its demise in 1945, and the book's strength is that it was written by a man who was there.
		SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" from the beginning and commanded a combat engineer company and later the combat egineer battalion.
		Karl Ullrich was with the division during its most critical engagements but provides the reader with no useful information or insite into the fighting qualities, organization or personalities of the 3 SS Panzer Division.
	www.8notes.com /books/detpage.asp?asin=092199169X&field-keywords=Couperin&schMod=music&type=&sb=s (765 words)

	SS TOTENKOPF DIVISION : Encyclopedia Entry
		The SS-Panzerkorps was to attack the southern flank of the salient as the spearhead for Generaloberst Hermann Hoth's 4.Panzer-Armee.
		The division was pulled back to the west, executing a fighting withdrawal from Budapest to the area near Lake Balaton, where the 6th SS Panzer Army under SS-Oberstgruppenführer Josef Dietrich was massing for the upcoming Operation Frühlingserwachen.
		The division's original cadre was drawn from the SS-Totenkopfverbände (concentration camp guards), as opposed to the other Germanic SS Divisions which were formed from the SS-Verfügungstruppe.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/SS_Totenkopf_Division (3357 words)

	3rd SS Division Totenkopf information - Search.com
		SS Division Totenkopf was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded by the Waffen-SS during World War II.
		The SS-Panzerkorps was to attack the southern flank of the salient as the spearhead for Generaloberst Hermann Hoth's 4.Panzer-Armee.
		The division was pulled back to the west, executing a fighting withdrawal from Budapest to the area near Lake Balaton, where the 6th SS Panzer Army under SS-Oberstgruppenführer Josef Dietrich was massing for the upcoming Operation Frühlingserwachen.
	www.search.com /reference/3rd_SS_Division_Totenkopf (3201 words)

	SS - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Franz Ziereis and Ernst Kaltenbrunner in Mauthausen 1941.
		SS doctors, in particular, were marked as war criminals due to the wide range of human medical experimentation which had been conducted during the Second World War as well as the role SS doctors had played in the gas chamber selections of the Holocaust.
		The SS response to the German legal establishment was to petition the Reich Ministry of Justice to pass an act that removed the SS, and all of its members, from the jurisdiction of the civilian courts.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=SS (5938 words)

	ss waffen: 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf
		For this operation, the division was supplied with a Panzer regiment and redesignated SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf.
		The division had been on the verge of rescuing 45,000 trapped Germans, but when the High Command realised that the Soviets would not fall for their trap, and ordered a renewal of Totenkopf’s offensive, the Soviet defense had stiffened and the trapped Germans and Hungarians had to be abandoned to their fate.
		The division was pulled back to the west, and after a fighting withdrawal from Budapest to Vienna, the division surrendered to the Americans on May 9th 1945.
	sswaffen.blogspot.com /2005/04/3rd-ss-panzer-division-totenkopf.html (1717 words)

	3rd SS Division Totenkopf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SS-Panzerkorps was to attack the southern flank of the salient as the spearhead for Generaloberst Hermann Hoth's 4.Panzer-Armee.
		The "Training Battalion" of the 3rd SS Division was involved in the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising[1].
		The "Training Battalion" of the 3rd SS Division was involved in the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SS_Division_Totenkopf (3445 words)

	Waffen-SS
		SS combat training consisted primarily of several months of intensive basic training with three objectives; physical fitness, small-arms proficiency and political indoctrination.
		The wearing of the SS runes on the collar was forbidden, with several of these formations wearing a national insignia instead.
		The actions of Himmler and the Nazi heirarchy in attaching the SS combat divisions to the same overall command of as the Allgemeine SS, Concentration Camps and Einsatzgruppen meant that such a decision was inevitable.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/waffenss.html (2210 words)

	Military History Online
		The leadership within the Waffen SS used the time between the end of hostilities in Poland and the beginning of the war in the West to train new recruits within its expanded ranks and acquire the arms and machinery necessary to equip "elite" motorized forces.
		Although the SS Totenkopf and the Polizei Divisions were initially deployed as part of the reserve, both were eventually engaged in the battles for France.
		The motorized SS units, able to keep up with the panzer divisions, were quickly ordered to engage the enemy at critical points such as defending against the British counter attack near Arras.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/articles/waffenss.aspx (1426 words)

	The World War 2 Store: SS-Totenkopf: The History of the 'Death's Head' Division 1940-45
		Especially with the 'Totenkopf' division the constant reminder that the origin of the division was in the concentration camps and the division should be guilty by association.
		The totenkopf division was formed at the beginning of WWI in Honor of Emperor Francis Ferdinand's assasination.
		It is true that 1 regiment of the totenkopf was involved with concentration camps, but the division was mainly a frontline unit the entire part of the war.
	www.ww2incolor.com /shop.php?c=1&n=5031&i=0760310157&x=SS_Totenkopf_The_History_of_the_Deaths_Head_Division_1940_45 (1218 words)

	WWW.WAFFEN-SS.NO "3.SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf"
		The division mounted an assault to break through enemy lines and recover their commander's body, and thereafter Eicke's body was buried with full military honours.
		The division then took part in the fighting withdrawal to the Dniepr river and remained in heavy defensive fighting for the rest of the year.
		The division was pulled back to the west, executing a fighting withdrawal from Budapest to Vienna, the division surrendered to the Americans on May 9 1945.
	www.waffen-ss.no /SS-Division-Totenkopf.htm (1213 words)

	2nd Lt. Heinrich Wicker, the man who surrendered the Dachau concentration camp, 29 April 1945
		There are many stories about the SS guards at Dachau being beaten to death by the prisoners after the liberation or shot with guns provided by the American liberators, and many accounts of the guards being summarily executed by the liberators after the surrender.
		The 45th Division had already arrived at the Dachau camp complex shortly before, and were inside the SS training camp where the Waffen-SS soldiers who were stationed there had also surrendered under a white flag of truce, but were being gunned down by the Americans.
		Some of the bodies of the SS soldiers who were killed during the liberation of Dachau are believed to have been buried on the grounds of the SS garrison.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /DachauScrapbook/DachauLiberation/Wicker.html (2867 words)

	Snyder's Treasures -- Signed Documents
		His SS Number is on the front and it is signed, with his early SS uniform photograph overstamped with the Reichsführer-SS hand stamp.
		This is an SS qualification for the driving school at the SS-Kraftfahrschule I at Apeldoorn (Netherlands).
		It is signed by the instructor and also by the SS commander and head master of the school.
	www.snyderstreasures.com /pages/iddocuments.htm (5094 words)

	"AXIS & LEGION MILITARIA" - Axis & Legion Militaria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The "Totenkopf" (Death's Head) was the other collar insignia that has been associated to Concentration Guards and the famous 3rd SS Totenkopf Division.
		The death's head was first worn as a collar tab when the SS took over the concentration camp system and continued through the pre-war expansion period that created the core of the Totenkopf Division.
		Unlike the volunteers in the Westland Regiment whom wore SS Collar Tabs, the volunteers in the Norwest were granted the distinction of their own special collar tab of a three-legged swastika referred as Trident sunwheel.
	axis101.bizland.com /CollarTabs02.htm (1417 words)

	Cookbook Store @ iChef
		Once frequently finds among historical enthusiasts of the Waffen-SS a tendancy to take the old SS veteran's oft-repeated statement of "we were soldiers, just like any other" at face value...though in fact, it is often not true at all, and especially not for the SS Totenkopf Div.
		None of the SS Divisions had Panther tanks at the time of the battle of Kursk and they did not get them until later in 1943 or early 1944.
		Charles Syndor's "Soldier's of Destruction" is excellent for the development and combat record of the division for the first half of the war, for the period of 1943-1945 the details are flawed at some points.
	www.ichef.com /cookbookstore.cfm?SearchType=SearchByAuthor&SearchTerm=Arthur%20%20Mann (1110 words)

	YouTube - The Leibstandarte and Totenkopf division SS occupy Kharkov
		YouTube - The Leibstandarte and Totenkopf division SS occupy Kharkov
		The Leibstandarte and Totenkopf division SS occupy Kharkov
		SS panzerkorps at the third battle of Kharkov
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=yUhSAk1pczY (705 words)

	Eicke, fÃ¼r, SS, Teil, Montigny, â SS-Totenkopf-VerbÃ¤nde
		Ihre Hauptaufgabe lag in der Bewachung und Verwaltung der Konzentrationslager.
		Ebenso wurden die SS-Reservestandarten der Allgemeinen-SS (nicht aktive Mitglider der SS zwischen 35-45 Jahren) von ihnen militÃ¤risch ausgebildet.
		November 1939 schuf Eicke aus Teilen von Polizei und Totenkopf-VerbÃ¤nden die SS-Division âTotenkopfâ, die spÃ¤ter zahlreiche Kriegsverbrechen verÃ¼bte.
	www.dbilink.de /SS-Totenkopf-Verbaende.html (1040 words)

	Axis History Factbook: 3. SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf
		SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf was formed Oct 1939 from concentration camp guards with the addition of officers from the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) and men from SS-Heimwehr Danzig.
		The "Totenkopf" cuff title was authorized for this unit 1 Sep 1942.
		BMW R12 of the Totenkopf division in the USSR 1941
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=1980 (463 words)

	Amazon.com: SS-Totenkopf: The History of the 'Death's Head' Division 1940-45: Books: Chris Mann,Arthur Donaldson
		Especially with the 'Totenkopf' division the constant reminder that the origin of the division was in the concentration camps and the division should be guilty by association.
		None of the SS Divisions had Panther tanks at the time of the battle of Kursk and they did not get them until later in 1943 or early 1944.
		Not to mention the 'Totenkopf' division did not take part in the battle of Prochorovka, it was holding the Psel bridgehead.
	www.amazon.com /SS-Totenkopf-History-Deaths-Division-1940-45/dp/0760310157 (1528 words)

	SS Nuremberg Charges, Part 1
		For the SS was the elite group of the Party, composed of the most thorough-going ad-herents of the Nazi cause, pledged to blind devotion to Nazi principles, and prepared to carry them out without any question and at any cost.
		This General SS stands fully and wholly on call as in the fighting years, except for one small part of the chief leaders and men.
		The Totenkopf Verbaende were to be relieved from the duty of guarding concentration camps and transferred as a skeleton corps to the SS Verfuegungstruppe.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/ssnur1.htm (5307 words)

	International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 4, p. 169 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Up to 1939 its headquarters was the SS Main Security Office (Sicherheitshauptamt) which, as I shall shortly show, became amalgamated in 1939 in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) one of the SS main departments shown on the chart before you — the sixth box from the left.
		Up to that time there were two branches of the SS composed of full-time, well-trained, professional soldiers: The so-called SS Verfügungstruppe, translatable perhaps as SS Emergency Troops, and the SS Totenkopf Verbände (the Death's Head Units).
		After the beginning of the war, the units of the SS Verfügungstruppe, were brought up to division strength, and new divisions were added to them.
	www.holocaust-history.org /works/imt/04/htm/t169.htm (453 words)

	Szehinsky decision
		Szehinskyj was born in Malnow, in the Lvov District of Poland, on February 14, 1924.
		Shortly before the execution, the offender is advised in the presence of the participating SS men by the Camp Commandant or his authorized SS officer that he is to be executed.
		He also stated that it was common for Totenkopf members to have former SS doctors remove their tattoos as soon as possible after the war, as a tattoo would have been proof positive of their activities during the Third Reich.
	www.dickinson.edu /magazine/fall02/szehinsky.html (8627 words)

	The SS
		The Death's Head Insignia of the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS, or Armed-SS, was a prestigious branch of the SS-Verfugungstruppe, or SS-Special Purpose Troops (SS meaning Schutzstaffeln).
		By 1941, the Waffen-SS had been organized into six divisions that included the 1st and 2nd Motorized SS Brigades.
		In 1941, the commander of the SS, Heinrich Himmler announced that non-German soldiers would be able to join the Waffen-SS.
	www.angelfire.com /ky3/natepss (361 words)

	Request to award the German Cross in Gold to Lammerding
		At the beginning of the war, SS-Obersturmbannführer Lammerding was placed in the pioneer-battalion of the division and always led it under his personal participation into the western campaign.
		It is common practice for SS officers in their reports and other writings to refer to themselves in the third person.) was badly injured during the night of the 6/7.
		He has had a big share in the successes of the SS-Totenkopf division, all the more so, as the divisional commander was unable to participate for a long time, due to severe wounding.
	www.oradour.info /appendix/lammreq2.htm (766 words)

	Theodor Eicke
		In the beginning of 1931 he became SS Sturmbahnführer and he whas Führer der II/10 SS Brigade.
		Theodor Eicke whas a person who makes quick promotions and after be the Verwaltungsofficier der 10 SS Standarte and Führer der 10 SS Standarte, he makes his next promotion in October 1932 to SS Oberführer.Suspected of carrying out bomb attacks on political opponents, Heinrich Himmler advised him to go and live in Italy in 1932.
		On the outbreak of the Second World War Eicke was placed in command of the Totenkopf division of the Waffen SS.
	www.germandaggers.info /Eicke.htm (680 words)

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	SS-Aufklärungsabt. Totenkopf Division - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums
		Order of Battle and Individual Research Forum Order of battle, unit history, personality research.
		is there a book out about the Aufklärungsabteilung of the Totenkopf Division?
		I am unaware of a specific book about the SS-Pz.A.A. 5 "T." however there are several books about the division.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=23131&goto=nextoldest (83 words)

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