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    Hitler Youth (redirect from Hitlerjugend)
    The Hitler Youth (German: Hitlerjugend [ˈhɪtlɐˌjuːɡn̩t] , often abbreviated as HJ, [haːˈjɔt] ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany...
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    The SS Division Hitlerjugend or 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" (German: 12. SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend") was a German armoured division of...
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  • the Balkans. He was appointed to command a regiment in the SS Division Hitlerjugend in 1943. He led the unit in the Battle for Caen, receiving the Knight's...
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    Paris, where it was assigned the SS Division Leibstandarte, SS Division Hitlerjugend, Panzer-Lehr-Division and the SS Division Götz von Berlichingen. The...
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    German Nazi national leader (Reichsjugendführer) of the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) from 1940 to 1945, when the war ended. He was the last living Nazi with...
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    engagements during World War II. Meyer commanded the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend during the Allied invasion of Normandy, and was a recipient of the Knight's...
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  • 1943. On 1 August he was transferred to the newly formed SS Division Hitlerjugend as a training officer and company commander. During battles in Normandy...
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    Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler; he briefly commanded the SS Division Hitlerjugend in 1944. After the war, he became active in HIAG, a Waffen-SS negationist...
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    the SS Division Leibstandarte before taking command of the SS Division Hitlerjugend. He was killed in action in June 1944. Born in 1908 into the family of...
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  • mid-September 1939. Thereafter, he served in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. Krause came up with the concept of an anti-aircraft tank that became...
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    commanders. This new division would become the 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitlerjugend). During the fighting around Kharkov, a unit under the command of Joachim...
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    fighting in the Soviet Union, and the newly formed panzer division SS-Hitlerjugend, consisting of 17- and 18-year-old Hitler Youth members supported by...
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    transferred to a new division forming in France, 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, to take command of the 12th SS Panzer Regiment. On 6 June 1944, the...
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    Hitler 2 Das Reich 3 Totenkopf 5 Wiking 9 Hohenstaufen 10 Frundsberg 12 Hitlerjugend Panzer- grenadier 11 Nordland 16 Reichsführer-SS 17 Götz von Berlichingen...
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  • Mitglied einer Hitlerjugend" in: Neues Deutschland, (August 28, 1995) (in German) Natalija Mussienko, Liste der Opfer der »Operation Hitlerjugend« in: Dehl...
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  • the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out by rail for Normandy at the end of March, 1944. On 1 April, their...
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    and eventually succeeded Hubert Meyer as commander of the SS Division Hitlerjugend. He was in charge of the division until 13 November 1944. Kraemer later...
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    the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Divisions remained on strength. After the landings, the first Waffen-SS unit in action was the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Division, which...
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    massacred in a garden at the abbey by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend over the course of several days and weeks. This was part of the Normandy...
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  • swing music and opposing Nazism, especially the Hitler Youth (German: Hitlerjugend). They loosely structured themselves into “clubs” with names such as...
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  • to which an SS panzer division aspired. The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was organized according to the above table, and served as a standard...
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    Obersturmführer Unit SS Division Leibstandarte; Führerbegleitkommando; SS Division Hitlerjugend Battles/wars Battle of Normandy † Spouse(s) Traudl Junge ​ (m. 1943)​...
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    The Deutsches Jungvolk in der Hitlerjugend (pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈjʊŋfɔlk]; DJ, also DJV; German for "German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth" or "German...
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  • (Wehrmacht) 12th Panzer Division (Bundeswehr) 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend This disambiguation page lists articles about military units and formations...
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  • Finally, the operation of the junior teams was handed over to the local Hitlerjugend units. The new highest league in what had been Austria, the Gauliga Ostmark...
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  • between the ages of 14 and 18 years. Its successor, the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend or HJ), remained under SA command until May 1932. Hermann Göring joined...
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    (WJ, "Viking youth") was a German Neo-Nazi organization modeled on the Hitlerjugend. The Sozialistische Reichspartei (SRP) was outlawed in 1952, together...
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    Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was still Netherlands, the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and the Panzer-Lehr Division were located in the Paris–Orleans area,...
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  • Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and was the last commander of the SS Division Hitlerjugend. Kraas was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak...
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    Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. It also contained the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. They were given priority for supply and equipment and assigned the shortest...
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