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Margry, Karel (2001). The Four Battles for Kharkiv. Battle of Britain International. OCLC 254320761. That same day, as the SS Totenkopf Division advanced near Merville, they encountered stubborn resistance from British Army units, which slowed their advance. [57] The SS Totenkopf 4 Company, then committed the Le Paradis massacre, where 97 captured men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment were machine gunned after surrendering, with survivors finished off with bayonets. Only two men survived. [58] Trevor-Roper, Hugh (2000). HITLER'S TABLE TALK 1941–1944 His Private Conversations. Enigma Books. p.143.

Smelser, Ronald; Davies, Edward J. (2008). The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83365-3. Oberster Führer der Schutzstaffel: ( lit. '"Supreme Leader of the SS"'), was a special title intended to be held solely by Adolf Hitler. When the SS became an independent organization from the SA in 1934, Hitler was listed on SS officer rolls as SS member #1 and the group's Supreme Commander. This title was intended to give Hitler a technically higher SS rank to Himmler (Reich Leader of the SS), but there is no photographic record of Hitler wearing an SS uniform, and there was no special SS insignia for Hitler above that worn by Himmler. [23]Eyre, Wayne (2006). "Operation RÖSSELSPRUNG and The Elimination of Tito, May 25, 1944: A Failure in Planning and Intelligence Support". Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Routledge. 19 (2): 343–376. doi: 10.1080/13518040600697969. S2CID 144383512. Normandy [ edit ] The starting lines of Operation Spring. Waffen-SS units identified are the 1st, 9th, 10th, and 12th SS Divisions and the 101st and 102nd SS Heavy Panzer Battalions. Duffy, Christopher (2002). Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945. Edison, NJ: Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-1624-0.

Bedurftig, Friedemann; Zenter, Christian, eds. (1985). Das große Lexikon des Dritten Reiches[ The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich] (in German). München: Südwest Verlag. ISBN 3-517-00834-6. McConnell, Winder, ed. (1998). A Companion to the Nibelungenlied. Boydell & Brewer. p.1. ISBN 978-1-57113-151-5 . Retrieved 20 May 2022. Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Volume 22 'Two Hundred and Seventeenth Day: Monday, 30 September 1946' ". Avalon Project. Lillian Goldman Law Library. Cook, Stan; Bender, Roger James (1994). Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: Uniforms, Organization, & History. San Jose, CA: R. James Bender. ISBN 978-0-912138-55-8.Tessin, Georg (1966). Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945: Die Landstreitkräfte 1–5 (in German). Vol.2. Frankfurt am Main: Mittler. Wilke, Karsten (2011). Die "Hilfsgemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit" (HIAG) 1950–1990: Veteranen der Waffen-SS in der Bundesrepublik[ HIAG 1950–1990: Waffen-SS veterans in the Federal Republic] (in German). Paderborn: Schoeningh Ferdinand GmbH. ISBN 978-3-506-77235-0. Cuppers, Martin (2006). Vorreiter der Shoah, Ein Vergleich der Einsätze der beiden SS-Kavallerieregimenter im August 1941 (in German). Meidenbauer Martin Verlag. ISBN 3-89975-080-2. Binkowski, Rafael; Wiegrefe, Klaus (21 October 2011). "The Brown Bluff: How Waffen SS Veterans Exploited Postwar Politics". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 1 December 2015 . Retrieved 1 December 2015.

In 1942, the Waffen-SS was further expanded and a new division was entered on the rolls in March. By the second half of 1942, an increasing number of foreigners, many of whom were not volunteers, began entering the ranks. [88] The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was recruited from Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans) drafted under threat of punishment by the local German leadership [88] from Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, and Romania and used for anti-partisan operations in the Balkans. [74] [89] Himmler approved the introduction of formal compulsory service for the Volksdeutsche in German-occupied Serbia. [88] Another new division was formed at the same time, when the SS Cavalry Brigade was used as the cadre in the formation of the 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer. [74] Panzergrenadier divisions [ edit ] Marrus, Michael R. (1989). The Nazi Holocaust. Part 3: The "Final Solution": The Implementation of Mass Murder (Vol.2). Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-0-88736-255-2. Did you know? A separate wing of the Dachau concentration camp was set aside for SS members found guilty of committing serious infractions. Close to 130 SS members were interned at Dachau when the camp was liberated by U.S. military forces on April 29, 1945.Givhan, Robin (15 August 1997). "Clothier Made Nazi Uniforms". Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post . Retrieved 5 December 2016. The staffs of concentration camps had by now standardized the skull collar patch, whereas between 1934 and 1938 the Totenkopf as well as various camp specific collar patches, displaying Germanic letters, had been used as unit insignia. Other unit insignia collar patches included a Standarte-number patch for most of the Allgemeine-SS, a blank collar patch worn by SS main office staffs and Sicherheitsdienst (and some SiPo) personnel, the sig-runes Waffen-SS patch (adopted after 1943 as the standard unit collar patch for most of the SS), and a numbered skull patch which was used by personnel serving in field units of the Totenkopfverbände; the three senior Totenkopfstandarten, formed into the Totenkopf division, would retain these collar patches throughout the war, but the remaining TK-Standarten were redesignated SS-Regimenter and switched to sig-runes in February 1941. As the war went on, the Waffen-SS recruited heavily among conquered populations, creating 'ethnic' brigades and divisions. These formations wore, in place of the sig-runes, distinctive unit collar patches identifying them as Freiwillige (foreign volunteers). In the last days of World War II, the SS also created a twin swastika collar patch which was used by the "auxiliary SS" which were non-SS members conscripted to serve in concentration camp positions. Molt, Matthias (2007). on der Wehrmacht zur Bundeswehr personelle Kontinuität und Diskontinuität beim Aufbau der deutschen Streitkräfte 1955–1966[ From the Wehrmacht to the Bundeswehr – Continuity and dis-continuity of personnel in the formation of the German armed forces] (in German). Heidelberg: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Retrieved 22 September 2018. SS pre-war uniforms (1934–1938) [ edit ] Heinrich Himmler's insignia for Reichsführer-SS The second version of the SS-Totenkopf; used from 1934 to 1945 The most significant rank change was the creation of an actual rank of Reichsführer-SS to denote the commander of the SS. The new rank was the equivalent of a field marshal in the army. [16] Prior to 1934, Himmler had been regarded simply as an SS-Obergruppenführer. Reichsführer was merely a title and not a rank prior to 1934, though Himmler preferred to use his title more than his rank. [16] In addition to Himmler’s new rank, several of the original SS rank titles were renamed (although retained the same insignia), bringing about the final nomenclature of SS ranks which would be used until the SS was disbanded at the end of World War II.

Miller, Michael (2006). Leaders of the SS and German Police, Vol. 1. San Jose, CA: R. James Bender. ISBN 978-93-297-0037-2. Fischer, Thomas (2008). Soldiers of the Leibstandarte. J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing. ISBN 978-0-921991-91-5.Rolf Michaelis Die SS-Sturmbrigade „Dirlewanger“. Vom Warschauer Aufstand bis zum Kessel von Halbe. Band II. 1. Auflage. Verlag Rolf Michaelis, 2003, ISBN 3-930849-32-1