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| The 3. SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf"
was established in 1939 and till the surrender in May
1945, the Division fought on almost every battlefield on
the Eastern front. After furius fightings in Hungary
against the Red Army, the Division surrended to the US
troops in Austria in May 1945. Shortly after the
surrender, more than 10.000 soldiers from the Totenkopf
Division was handed over as prisoners of war to the Red
Army. The Totenkopf Division was the one division inside the Waffen SS, which, throughout the war, had the most volunteers from Nordschleswig serving in it. |
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| An early member of the SS "Totenkopf" Division |
During the war,
the SS Division "Totenkopf" was renamed 4 times.
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| SS Panzer-Regiment 3 "Totenkopf"
SS Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 5 "Totenkopf" SS Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 6 "Theodor Eicke" SS Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 3 SS Flak Artillerie-Abteilung 3 SS Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 3 SS Panzerjäger-Abteilung 3 SS Panzer-Pionier-Bataillon 3 SS Panzer-Nachrichten-Abteilung 3 SS Versorgungs-Einheiten 3 |
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| Soldiers from the SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Totenkopf" |
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| Grave from an young
volunteer from Nordschleswig Asmus Adelbert Borg, born 1915 in Gorsblok in Nordschleswig. Killed in March 1943 near Lipzy in the Ukraine.
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Feldpostletter from a
volunteer from Nordschleswig, who served in the
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| A SS Unterscharführer from the "Totenkopf" Division with a captured Russian machine gun |
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Soldiers from the
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| A SS Unterscharführer from the "Totenkopf" Division during the retreat out of Hungary in 1945 |