Waffen SS Division Totenkopf truck, Eastern Front
Waffen SS soldiers posing beside a Sd.Kfz 11
5.SS-Panzer-Division “Wiking” troops during Battle in Korsun Cherkassy Pocket 1944
Renault AGC trucks of the Waffen-SS
Josef Dietrich in France, LAH 1942
SS gun crew opens fire with Pak 36 on Eastern Front 1941
Soldiers of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
Waffen-SS soldiers advancing on enemy on Eastern Front
Soldier of the Waffen-SS
Rottenfuhrer from S Sturmgeschütz Abteilung “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler”
Soldiers of the 2. SS-Panzerdivision “Das Reich”
1st SS Panzer Division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” motorcycle unit moves south thru Greece 1942
Waffen SS Cavalry
Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” 2
Soldiers of the 3. SS-Panzerdivision “Totenkopf”, Winter
Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” 1943/1944
Flak-Kanoniere of the 2 SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich wave a flag to alert the German pilots above them Belgorod 1943
LSSAH Soldiers during Operation Marita Greece 1941
6. SS-Gebirgs-Division “Nord” man with 7,5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 in Finland
Obersturmbannfuhrer Franz Hack from 5. SS-Panzerdivision “Wiking”
Soldiers riding a BMW R12 with side car
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Division Das Reich Eastern Front
Unterscharfuhrer with MP40 Machine Pistol Eastern Front 1942
Waffen-SS soldier 2
Soldiers of the Waffen SS 2
Waffen-SS troops dig grave, Eastern Front 1941
Waffen SS soldier firing Mauser 98k on Eastern Front
Kradschutzen of the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler riding a KS600 Zundapp motorcycle sidecar combo through a destroyed Russian village, 1942
1st SS LSSAH soldiers in action in Mariupol October 1941
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS 4
Soldiers of the 1 SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 1943/1944
Soldiers of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar 2
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS with halftrack Holland
Soldiers of the Totenkopf Division 2
Waffen SS troops with MG34 mounted on Lafette heavy tripod 1940
Troops of LSSAH clear town during Operation Barbarossa
Waffen-SS Officer, Russia
Soldiers of the SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Totenkopf Division with PPSH 41
Waffen-SS in Russia 1941
Waffen SS trops with MG 34 attacking village on Eastern Front
Soldiers of the Waffen SS, Russia 1942
Horch 901 of the 5th Panzer Division Wiking
Kavallerie Waffen-SS
Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Soldiers from Waffen-SS Regiment Nordland
Waffen-SS Kradmelder with BMW R12
Soldiers of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during Operation Barbarossa 1941
Soldiers preparing a meal at an outpost on the Western Front 1940
Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” 1943/1944 2
Soldier from 3 SS Division Totenkopf on Eastern Front 1943
Panzergrenadier squad in Kharkov February 1943
Waffen SS soldiers attacking a Russian village July 1941
Soldiers from 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar
6th SS Mountain Division Nord troops advance on Murmansk 1941
Waffen-SS Officers
Waffen-SS troops
Waffen-SS 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” in Greece
Troops from 3. SS-Panzerdivision “Totenkopf”
SS Hauptsturmfuhrer of the 6th SS Mountain Division ‘Nord’ thanks his men for successful operations in the Kola Peninsula 1942
Soldiers of the Waffen SS
Soldiers of Waffen SS in action with flammenwerfer 35 1942
Soldiers of Waffen SS with Eiserne Kreuz France
Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 1943/1944 3
German soldiers of the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler examine a captured Soviet war flag somewhere in the Ukraine 1941
German soldiers of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord in position on the Kola Peninsula during Operation Arctic Fox, 1942
Waffen SS soldiers pushing truck out of hole 1941
Soldiers of the Waffen SS 5
German soldiers of the Waffen-SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Soldier advances with pistol ready on Russian Front 1941
Kradmelder from LAH
Troops of the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler just before the final assalut during the Battle of Vevi, also known as the Battle of the Klidi Pass, 1941
Soldiers of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French), 1941
SdKfz 232 and Horch 901 cars from 1st SS Aufklarungs Abteilung LAH
Soldiers of the Waffen SS in action
2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” Kharkov 1943
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS 3
Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising 2
Soldiers of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, Eastern Front
Waffen-SS 9
Soldiers of Waffen SS in action with flammenwerfer 35 1942 2
Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising
Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising 3
Kradschutze of 3rd SS Totenkopf aid wounded comrade
Soldiers of the Division Das Reich Eastern Front
Waffen SS soldier 3
Soldiers of the Waffen SS 1945
A group of Waffen-SS soldiers posing with a captured KV-1
Soldiers and truck of the LAH
Waffen-SS was the combat arm of the Schutzstaffel. Headed by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the Waffen-SS saw action throughout the Second World War.
After beginning as a protection unit for the NSDAP leadership, by October 1944 the Waffen-SS had grown into a force of 38 combat divisions comprising over 910,000 men, including a number of elite army units. In the testimony given at the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was condemned as a criminal organisation due to their involvement with the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), and Waffen-SS veterans were denied many of the rights afforded other German combat veterans who had served in the Heer, Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine. Conscripts were exempted from the judgment on the basis of involuntary servitude.