Waffen SS: Rare Images

Liebstandarte soldiers at Taganrog

Waffen SS in action

Totenkopf men at Demyansk. 1941 winter.

SS men cleaning their weapons

SS troops in Poland. September 1939

SS soldiers fighting on the outskirts of Pabianice

Captured Polish soldiers escorted by men from the SS Heimwehr at Danzig

Waffen SS of the Totenkopf Division in action on the western front. May 1940

Totenkopf men fighting in France

Liebstandarte troops in Greece. April 1941

SS men cower as they are under Soviet fire

Waffen SS soldiers using the 80 mm mortar during the fighting at Narva

Totenkopf men attacking Russian positions

Waffen-SS troops in Budapest during the dying moments of the conflicts

Das Reich troops move into Kiev

Troops from the Das Reich Division fighting at Yelnia

SS assault troops at Caen, Normandy fighting the British. 1944

July 5, 1943. Men from the Libstandarte move during the Zitadelle Offensive

Waffen SS men in occupied Kharkov

Killing a Soviet Commissar

SS soldiers fire at Red Army positions at Cherkassy

SS troops escape from the Korsun-Cherkassy pocket

Men from Liebstandarte hitting Soviet positions with a 150 mm gun at Prokhorovka

Two Liebstandarte men during the campaign in Greece

A Tiger of the Liebstandarte Division during the Zitadelle Offensive

Liebstandarte men ride a motor-cycle through a destroyed Russian village

Machine gun post at Narva

Defensive position at Narva

SS troops on a Panther tank during the Ardennes Offensive

Sepp Dietrich surrounded by Greek POW and refugees

A SS soldier chats up Russian women at Belgorod

Viking SS Division soldiers at Korsun-Cherkassy

These SS troops are welcomed into the Soviet Union

Men from the Totenkopf Division at Kharkov

Viking Division SS grenadiers and tankers at Korsun. 1944

SS: The Blood-soaked Soil - Battles of the Waffen-SS

By GORDON WILLIAMSON