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    increased in size from a regiment to a Panzergrenadier division and was designated SS Panzergrenadier Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler". It received...
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    the Limousin region. SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, commander of the I Battalion, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment (Der Führer) that committed the massacre...
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    Casualties of the 25th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment amounted to about 300 men, while 15 tanks from the 12th SS Panzer Regiment were also destroyed. Late...
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  • Hitler was listed on SS officer rolls as member No. 1 and considered supreme commander of the entire SS (Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel: Literally...
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    any member of the SS. Also used as an actual rank of the Allgemeine SS SS-Führer: Originally an early rank of the SS, the term SS-Führer designated commissioned...
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    According to Scherzer as leader of the III.(gepanzerte)/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Der Führer". According to Scherzer as pilot in the 13./Jagdgeschwader...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    other regimentsSS-Deutschland, SS-Germania, and SS-Der Führer—were combined to form the SS-Verfügungs-Division. A second SS division, the SS-Totenkopf...
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    The Der Führer Regiment was detached from the SS-VT Division and attached to the 207th Infantry Division. The SS-VT Division minus Der Führer was concentrated...
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    According to Scherzer as platoon troop leader in the 9./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Der Führer". According to Scherzer name is spelled Anton Grassl. According...
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    13./Fallschirm-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1 "Hermann Göring". According to Scherzer as commander of SS-Regiment (motorized) "Der Führer". No evidence of...
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  • events. The SS-VT regiments Deutschland and Germania along with the Leibstandarte participated in the invasion of Poland, with Der Führer (recruited in...
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    March 1944. According to Scherzer as leader of the III./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4 "Der Führer". No evidence of the award can be found in the German...
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    Grenadier-Regiment Großdeutschland. It received its final name, Panzergrenadier-Regiment Großdeutschland, in 1943. After the Treaty of Versailles, Germany's...
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    of the II./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Westland". According to Scherzer as Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 4./Panzergrenadier-Regiment 12. According...
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    Scherzer as SS-Hauptsturmführer of the Reserves and leader of the II./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 24 "Danmark". According to Scherzer as chief of the 4./Infanterie-Regiment...
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    Fredrik Jensen (soldier) (category SS-Obersturmführer)
    Waffen-SS regiments, such as the SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 4 Der Führer in 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich and SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 9 Germania...
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  • 1933. Over time it grew into a regiment, brigade, division, and finally was combined with the Parachute-Panzergrenadier Division 2 Hermann Göring on 1...
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    Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (German: Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a Waffen-SS unit formed in September 1944 from...
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  • Grenadier Battalion, Führer Grenadier Brigade) Panzergrenadier Division Brandenburg (previously Brandenburg Battalion, Brandenburg Regiment and Infantry Division...
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    (gepanzert)/SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 4. According to Scherzer as commander of the III.(gepanzert)/2. Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"...
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    Scherzer as commander of Panzergrenadier-Brigade "von Werthern" Kampfgruppe made up of parts from the Führer-Begleit-Bataillon and Führer-Flak-Abteilung (Luftwaffe)...
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    Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces). The Waffen-SS (Armed SS) was created as the militarised wing of the Schutzstaffel (SS; "Protective...
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    Inspekteur der Nachtjagd in the Reichsluftfahrtministerium and commander of the 30. Jagd-Division According to Scherzer as chief of the 2./schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung...
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    and 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS. Scattered remnants did not surrender until 18 May and many attempted to obliterate their SS blood group...
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    Adolf Diekmann (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    Normandy landings—to SS-Sturmbannführer. He was given command of the 1st Battalion, 4th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment (Der Fuhrer), in the Das Reich Division...
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  • Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS during World War II. Brigades, in German army parlance prior to 1944, generally designated formations of two regiments from the same...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Sa–Schr)
    leader) in the 3./SS-Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung 1. According to Scherzer as commander of the II./SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"....
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    According to Scherzer as leader of Panzergrenadier-Bataillon 2101. According to Scherzer as leader of the 4./SS-Kavallerie-Regiment 17. According to Scherzer as...
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    the I./Panzergrenadier-Regiment 12. According to Scherzer as chief of the 6./SS-Kavallerie-Regiment 16. According to Scherzer as commander of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment...
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    as a member of the 11. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Nordland". Fellgiebel himself states that the presentation was made by SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke...
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