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Nazi Germany's Toughest Fighters: SS Totenkopf Division
Not so clean was the Totenkopf Division. It was initially made up of men who were guards at concentration camps (SS Totenkpfverbande). The men were some of the most dedicated and fierce soldiers of the Third Reich. When things got desperate, the SS men were called in to do near impossible tasks. The fact that Germany survived for so many years after the hiding its armies got in Russia was because of the tough men of the Waffen SS. SS Totenkopf topped the list. We will talk about the other elite SS Divisions later. We start with the Totenkopf.
Totenkopf soldiers fire a 88mm mortar shell
TOTENKOPF: THE BAD BOYS
TOTENKOPF: THE BAD BOYS
Having missed the Polish campaign, Totenkopf was initially held in reserve during the assault into France and the Low Countries in May 1940. They were committed on 16 May to the Front in Belgium. The Totenkopf soldiers fought fanatically, suffering heavy losses.
Within a week of this initial commitment the division's first war crime had already been committed. At Le Paradis 4th Kompanie, I Abteilung, commanded by SS-Obersturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, machine-gunned 97 out of 99 British officers and members of the Royal Norfolk Regiment after they had surrendered to them; two survived. After the war, Knöchlein was tried by a British Court and convicted for war crimes in 1948. He was sentenced to death and hanged.
Within a week of this initial commitment the division's first war crime had already been committed. At Le Paradis 4th Kompanie, I Abteilung, commanded by SS-Obersturmführer Fritz Knöchlein, machine-gunned 97 out of 99 British officers and members of the Royal Norfolk Regiment after they had surrendered to them; two survived. After the war, Knöchlein was tried by a British Court and convicted for war crimes in 1948. He was sentenced to death and hanged.
TOUGH FIGHTERS
During Autumn and Winter of 1941, the Soviets launched a number of operations against the German lines in the Northern sector of the Front. During one of these operations, the Division was encircled for several months near Demjansk in what would come to be known as the Demjansk Pocket. During these kessel battles, Totenkopf suffered so greatly that, due to its reduced size, it was re-designated Kampfgruppe Eicke. The division was involved in ferocious fighting to hold the pocket. SS-Hauptsturmführer Erwin Meierdress of the Sturmgeschütze-Batterie (Assault Gun) Totenkopf formed a Kampfgruppe of about 120 soldiers and held the strategic town of Bjakowo despite repeated determined enemy attempts to capture the town. During these battles, Meierdress personally destroyed several enemy tanks in his StuG III. He was awarded the Iron Cross for his actions during this period. In April 1942, the division broke out of the pocket and managed to reach friendly lines.
In action in France. 1940
In Early February 1943 Totenkopf was transferred back to the Eastern Front as part of Erich von Manstein's Army Group South. The division, as a part of SS-Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser's SS-Panzerkorps, took part in the Third Battle of Kharkov, blunting the Soviet General Konev's offensive. During this campaign, Theodor Eicke was killed when his Fieseler Storch spotter aircraft was shot down while on final approach to a front line unit. The division mounted an assault to secure the crash site and recover their commander's body, and thereafter Eicke's body was buried with full military honours. Hermann Priess succeeded Eicke as commander.
SAD END OF THE SS TOTENKOPF
By the end of 1942 the division had experienced virtually a complete turnover in personnel. The high casualty rates meant by late 1943 virtually none of the original cadre were left. However, while the division's record in the brutal Eastern Front fighting to follow is quite clean, its reputation lingered. The Totenkopf division didn't want to be captured by the Soviets, so they attacked the American 11th Armored Division. The Americans, who suffered heavy losses, were angered by this. When the Totenkopf surrendered (to the Americans) they were turned over to the Soviets Linz in 1945. Those who were wounded or simply too exhausted to make it to Pregarten were executed by the Americans along the way (some 80 in all suffered this fate). Another story in the aforementioned book states, "A convoy of ambulances drove by and picked up the dead and wounded behind the last tank of the long caterpiller. Apparently, the wounded comrades weren't handed over to the Russians. The ambulances turned around and headed back to Linz at high speed,' . The senior officers were executed by the NKVD, others were also executed as they were shipped to Siberia. Only a few of them survived captivity to return to Germany.
In a huddle in Kursk
Directing traffic in Paris, Totenkopf style
Taking a breather
Himmler inspects in Russia
A junior officer in the Totenkopf
In Russia
The men during Kursk atop a tank
Anti-tank unit of the Totenkopf. Russia. September 1941
Soldiers of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf break for a meal beside the wreck of a Soviet T-34 somewhere in Romania, 1944.
Grenadiers of the 3rd SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf take cover from incoming artillery. Hungary, March 1945.
Prisoners from the Totenkopf in France in 1944
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HISTORY BESTSELLER BOOKS
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To date, no one else has done an exhaustive photographic record of the 3rd SS until this book came along. There are other books on the Totenkopf which provide lots of history on the division, but for any historian, this book is outstanding. I've never seen a better collection of 3rd SS photos gathered in one place before, and better yet, almost all of these are not seen in other books on the Waffen SS.
For the money you can't beat it, and I've spent hours looking over the photos picking out a lot of details you're just not going to find anywhere else.
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HISTORY BESTSELLER BOOKS
To date, no one else has done an exhaustive photographic record of the 3rd SS until this book came along. There are other books on the Totenkopf which provide lots of history on the division, but for any historian, this book is outstanding. I've never seen a better collection of 3rd SS photos gathered in one place before, and better yet, almost all of these are not seen in other books on the Waffen SS.
For the money you can't beat it, and I've spent hours looking over the photos picking out a lot of details you're just not going to find anywhere else.
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OLD v NEW
We have been looking at listings for months. I could pretty much double as a real estate agent since I had spent what felt like years on the MLS in California and now with our recent move to Dallas an exorbitant amount of time on Realtor.com. I always loved looking at real estate so I never thought I would say this but I'm...
I am not a total novice when it comes to Dallas real estate. I lived in Dallas for 8 months, and my husband previously owned and sold a home in Dallas too, so I have some familiarity with the area.
The question on our most recent search is OLD versus NEW. I am very much drawn to new construction, which probably has something to do with my affinity for wandering through model homes, a very old pastime of mine. I know that model homes can be very bland filled with all of the stagers decor, but of course I am insistent on infusing your own personal style in what I look at is not stager heaven but a new blank slate.
And hello! I practically lived in Pleasantville or what could double as the set of Wisteria Lane in what one article termed Zombieland (which has more to do with the bad loans, falling home prices, short sales, and foreclosures rather than Stepford Wives, but still I loved my Zombieland!).
With that description, I think NEW is winning out to an older, more prestigious community, where we would have to buy a real fixer upper in an area where dilapidated brick ranch homes stand next to Texas sized multi-millionare dollar mansions. Not that these areas don't exude charm, and not that I am scared nor fear for lack of vision, but mostly, it's that you can't change the floor plan without bulldozing the house and starting over. The floor plans are very chopped up and always missing something on my must-have list (like a defined entryway).
I find myself constantly comparing these older homes with the new construction home that I fell in love with (and it doesn't escape me that this community happens to bear a striking similarity to my beloved Zombieland), along with the process of picking out every single detail of the home as it is built from the ground up, which sort of sound like design heaven.
Nothing has been formally purchased yet, but we are heading in that direction...
I am not a total novice when it comes to Dallas real estate. I lived in Dallas for 8 months, and my husband previously owned and sold a home in Dallas too, so I have some familiarity with the area.
The question on our most recent search is OLD versus NEW. I am very much drawn to new construction, which probably has something to do with my affinity for wandering through model homes, a very old pastime of mine. I know that model homes can be very bland filled with all of the stagers decor, but of course I am insistent on infusing your own personal style in what I look at is not stager heaven but a new blank slate.
And hello! I practically lived in Pleasantville or what could double as the set of Wisteria Lane in what one article termed Zombieland (which has more to do with the bad loans, falling home prices, short sales, and foreclosures rather than Stepford Wives, but still I loved my Zombieland!).
With that description, I think NEW is winning out to an older, more prestigious community, where we would have to buy a real fixer upper in an area where dilapidated brick ranch homes stand next to Texas sized multi-millionare dollar mansions. Not that these areas don't exude charm, and not that I am scared nor fear for lack of vision, but mostly, it's that you can't change the floor plan without bulldozing the house and starting over. The floor plans are very chopped up and always missing something on my must-have list (like a defined entryway).
I find myself constantly comparing these older homes with the new construction home that I fell in love with (and it doesn't escape me that this community happens to bear a striking similarity to my beloved Zombieland), along with the process of picking out every single detail of the home as it is built from the ground up, which sort of sound like design heaven.
Nothing has been formally purchased yet, but we are heading in that direction...
Ten on Tuesday (4)
Another set of questions from Chelsea of Roots and Rings!
1. Is there a band/artist that you HATE?
Nickleback....he is so whiny and annoying.
2. What do you do when you get a gift that you do not like? How do you react?
I try to pretend I like it, although I am not very good at pretending.
3. How is your work office/cubicle decorated?
I had a calendar from my aunt and a photo that a friend of mine took of the French Quarter. I have an anal retentive calendar of my own with days marked in different colors depending on category of the item.
4. Do you use all of your vacation every year?
Yes. And then I take more unpaid vacation. I like vacation.
5. Did you have a real or fake Christmas tree?
Real...when I have one. They smell so good! We even go and chop them down ourselves. That's half the fun.
6. If you could have anything for dinner tonight, what would it be?
Pizza. REAL pizza, thin crust. MMmmmm...
7. Do you bite your fingernails?
Never. I keep them cut really short.
8. How many cups of coffee do you drink each day?
1 - infinity, depending on where I am and what I am doing. I can easily drink a pot without realizing it.
9. Do you have a nervous tick?
I don't think so.
10. How often do you vacuum?
Never. Well, when you are on the road/staying in hotels and hostels all the time, you dont have to!
1. Is there a band/artist that you HATE?
Nickleback....he is so whiny and annoying.
2. What do you do when you get a gift that you do not like? How do you react?
I try to pretend I like it, although I am not very good at pretending.
3. How is your work office/cubicle decorated?
I had a calendar from my aunt and a photo that a friend of mine took of the French Quarter. I have an anal retentive calendar of my own with days marked in different colors depending on category of the item.
4. Do you use all of your vacation every year?
Yes. And then I take more unpaid vacation. I like vacation.
5. Did you have a real or fake Christmas tree?
Real...when I have one. They smell so good! We even go and chop them down ourselves. That's half the fun.
6. If you could have anything for dinner tonight, what would it be?
Pizza. REAL pizza, thin crust. MMmmmm...
7. Do you bite your fingernails?
Never. I keep them cut really short.
8. How many cups of coffee do you drink each day?
1 - infinity, depending on where I am and what I am doing. I can easily drink a pot without realizing it.
9. Do you have a nervous tick?
I don't think so.
10. How often do you vacuum?
Never. Well, when you are on the road/staying in hotels and hostels all the time, you dont have to!
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