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The 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" (German: 3. SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf") [1] was an elite division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, formed from the Standarten of the SS-TV. Its name, Totenkopf, is German for "death's head" – the skull and crossbones symbol – and it is thus sometimes referred to as the Death's ...
SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; lit. ' Death's Head Units ' [2]) was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. It was responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties. [3]
Hermann August Fredrich Priess (24 May 1901 – 2 February 1985) was a German general in the Waffen-SS and a war criminal during World War II.He commanded the SS Division Totenkopf ("Death's Head") following the death of Theodor Eicke in February 1943.
The SS Division Totenkopf, also known as the Totenkopf Division, went on to become one of the most effective German formations on the Eastern Front, fighting during invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, as well as the summer offensive in 1942, the capture of Kharkov, in the Demyansk Pocket, during the Vistula–Oder Offensive, and the Battle of ...
German SS doctor, who carried out deadly experiments on humans in the Nazi concentration camp of Dachau 1939 Franz Karl Reichleitner: Second and last Commandant of Sobibor extermination camp: 357065 6369213 Rudolf Reinecke SS Totenkopf and SS Frunsberg Divisions Died 1995 Rudolf von Ribbentrop: Waffen-SS Officer (branch: Panzertruppe) Fritz ...
First commander of SS Division Totenkopf, which became notorious for its war crimes. Killed in action: Richard Glücks: April 22, 1889: May 10, 1945: 56 years, 18 days Head of Concentration Camp Operations (Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen) in the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt)
Totenkopf (German: [ˈtoːtn̩ˌkɔpf], i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull. The word is often used to denote a figurative, graphic or sculptural symbol, common in Western culture, consisting of the representation of a human skull – usually frontal, more rarely in profile with or without the mandible .
Nazi Gold, Granada Publishing, 1984. Höhne, Heinz. Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf, (English translation entitled The Order of the Death's Head, The Story of Hitler's SS) London: Pan Books Ltd. 1969. Koehl, Robert Lewis. The Black Corps University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Reitlinger, Gerald. The SS: Alibi of a Nation 1922–1945. Viking (Da ...