Key badge, 1940

Coat of arms with key, 194 1 year.

Keys and notched shield badges, 1943

Add oak leaves to the original badge. 1944.

collar badge

Stainless steel standard collar

Other decorations

The epaulettes are marked with a special letter "AH"

armband

The words on the armband are Hitler's autograph.

Total strength

1935 1 month

2.53 1 person

1936 1 month

2.650 people

1937 1 month

3. 177 people

1938 1 month

3.607 people

1938 65438+ February

3.626 people

194 1 June

10.796 people

1942 65438+ February

20.844 people

1943 65438+ February

19.867 people

65438+June 0944

19.6438+0 people

1944 65438+ February

22,000 people

Number of Knights Cross winners

58 people

Type of troops

Ethnic composition

Participated in sports and actions

War atrocities

armored division

panzergrenadier

German

White plan-invasion of Poland

Yellow Plan-Invasion of France and Low Countries

Marita-the invasion of Greece.

Operation Attila-Occupy Vichy, France

Operation barbarossa-invasion of the Soviet Union

Operation Castle-Battle of Kursk

Battle of Normandy

Watch operation Rhine-the battle of the bulge

Operation Spring Awakening-Hungarian Campaign

65438+May 28th 0940:

In Wormhout, near Dunkirk, wilhelm mohnke of the Leibstandarte ordered his men to collectively slaughter 65 people (80? ) prisoners of war of the British 48th Infantry Division.

194 1 year1month:

In Taganrog, Soviet Union, division commander Dietrich ordered the slaughter of 4,000 Soviet prisoners of war.

1943 March 14:

In Kharkov, Soviet Union, 700 Soviet wounded died in hospital beds.

1944 65438+February 17:

The Piper battle group shot and killed 84 American prisoners of war.

1944 65438+February 19-20:

In the battle to capture the town of Stavilo, the LSSAH Division slaughtered 130 Belgian civilians on the grounds of assisting the US military.