Waffen SS
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1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" motorcycle unit moves south thru Greece 1942
2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" Kharkov 1943
5.SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking" troops during Battle in Korsun Cherkassy Pocket 1944
6. SS-Gebirgs-Division "Nord" man with 7,5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 in Finland
6th SS Mountain Division Nord troops advance on Murmansk 1941
A group of Waffen-SS soldiers posing with a captured KV-1
Flak-Kanoniere of the 2 SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich wave a flag to alert the German pilots above them Belgorod 1943
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
German soldiers of the Waffen-SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Horch 901 of the 5th Panzer Division Wiking
Josef Dietrich in France, LAH 1942
Kavallerie Waffen-SS
Kradmelder from LAH
Kradschutze of 3rd SS Totenkopf aid wounded comrade
Kradschutzen of the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler riding a KS600 Zundapp motorcycle sidecar combo through a destroyed Russian village, 1942
LSSAH Soldiers during Operation Marita Greece 1941
Obersturmbannfuhrer Franz Hack from 5. SS-Panzerdivision "Wiking"
Panzergrenadier squad in Kharkov February 1943
Renault AGC trucks of the Waffen-SS
Rottenfuhrer from S Sturmgeschütz Abteilung "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"
SdKfz 232 and Horch 901 cars from 1st SS Aufklarungs Abteilung LAH
Soldier advances with pistol ready on Russian Front 1941
Soldier from 3 SS Division Totenkopf on Eastern Front 1943
Soldier of the Waffen-SS
Soldiers and truck of the LAH
Soldiers from 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar
Soldiers from Waffen-SS Regiment Nordland
Soldiers of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during Operation Barbarossa 1941
Soldiers of the 1 SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 1943/1944
Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" 1943/1944
Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" 1943/1944 2
Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" 2
Soldiers of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar 2
Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 1943/1944 3
Soldiers of the 2. SS-Panzerdivision "Das Reich"
Soldiers of the 3. SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf", Winter
Soldiers of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French), 1941
Soldiers of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
Soldiers of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, Eastern Front
Soldiers of the Division Das Reich Eastern Front
Soldiers of the SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
Soldiers of the Totenkopf Division 2
Soldiers of the Waffen SS
Soldiers of the Waffen SS 1945
Soldiers of the Waffen SS 2
Soldiers of the Waffen SS 5
Soldiers of the Waffen SS in action
Soldiers of the Waffen SS, Russia 1942
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS 3
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS 4
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Division Das Reich Eastern Front
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Totenkopf Division with PPSH 41
Soldiers of the Waffen-SS with halftrack Holland
Soldiers of Waffen SS in action with flammenwerfer 35 1942
Soldiers of Waffen SS in action with flammenwerfer 35 1942 2
Soldiers of Waffen SS with Eiserne Kreuz France
Soldiers preparing a meal at an outpost on the Western Front 1940
Soldiers riding a BMW R12 with side car
SS gun crew opens fire with Pak 36 on Eastern Front 1941
SS Hauptsturmfuhrer of the 6th SS Mountain Division 'Nord' thanks his men for successful operations in the Kola Peninsula 1942
Troops from 3. SS-Panzerdivision "Totenkopf"
Troops of LSSAH clear town during Operation Barbarossa
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
Unterscharfuhrer with MP40 Machine Pistol Eastern Front 1942
Waffen SS Cavalry
Waffen SS Division Totenkopf truck, Eastern Front
Waffen SS soldier 3
Waffen SS soldier firing Mauser 98k on Eastern Front
Waffen SS soldiers attacking a Russian village July 1941
Waffen SS soldiers posing beside a Sd.Kfz 11
Waffen SS soldiers pushing truck out of hole 1941
Waffen SS troops with MG34 mounted on Lafette heavy tripod 1940
Waffen SS trops with MG 34 attacking village on Eastern Front
Waffen-SS 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" in Greece
Waffen-SS 9
Waffen-SS in Russia 1941
Waffen-SS Kradmelder with BMW R12
Waffen-SS Officer, Russia
Waffen-SS Officers
Waffen-SS soldier 2
Waffen-SS soldiers advancing on enemy on Eastern Front
Waffen-SS troops
Waffen-SS troops dig grave, Eastern Front 1941
Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising
Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising 2
Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising 3
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.