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SS-Panzerdivision "Das Reich") or SS Division Das Reich was an armored division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. Initially formed from regiments of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), Das Reich initially served during the Battle of France in 1940 before seeing combat on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1944.
Division Name (in German) Ethnic composition Named after Years Active Insignia Maximum Manpower — Kempf [a] Germans: General der Panzertruppe Werner Kempf: 1939: 164–180 tanks — Böhmen-Mähren [b] Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: 1944–1945: 1st: Kosaken Nr. 1: Cossacks: 1943–1945: 17,500 [citation needed] — RONA (Russische Nr ...
The captured officer was claimed to be SS-Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion (also part of the Das Reich division). Kämpfe was captured by the Maquis du Limousin the day before while traveling in a German army vehicle marked as an ambulance protected by the Geneva Convention.
Insignia of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. At the beginning of 1944, after suffering heavy losses on the Eastern Front, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, under the command of SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Lammerding regrouped in Valence-d'Agen [1] to prepare to depart for the Western Front. They were to respond to the purported landing of ...
The LSSAH, along with the SS Divisions Totenkopf and Das Reich, was to form the spearhead of General Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army, tasked with breaching the southern flank of the Kursk salient. Field Marshal Walter Model 's 9th Army was to breach the northern flank, and the two forces were to meet near the city of Kursk, to the east, thereby ...
2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" Rank Name Service period SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer: Paul Hausser: 19 October 1939 – 14 October 1941 SS-Obergruppenführer:
1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" (previously SS Division "Verfügungs", later SS Panzergrenadier Division "Das Reich")
The Leibstandarte was also expanded to a division for Operation Barbarossa. [42] When the Waffen-SS divisions were assigned numbers much later in the war these first formations, Leibstandarte, Das Reich, Totenkopf, Polizei and Wiking, were recognized as SS divisions 1 through 5. [43]