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    SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, abbreviated as LSSAH (German: 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
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    Führerbegleitkommando (FBK), Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), and Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD) were created as sub-sections of the SS. Police and security...
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  • army. The SS-VT trained alongside Hitler's personal body guard the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), which had also been formed from the SS-Stabswache...
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    Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday was celebrated as a national holiday throughout Nazi Germany on 20 April 1939. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels made...
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  • The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) was founded in September 1933 as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard formation. It was given the title Leibstandarte...
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    Sepp Dietrich (category Chauffeurs of Adolf Hitler)
    was renamed Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) on 13 April 1934. As one of Hitler's intimates, Dietrich was often able to disregard his SS superior,...
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    Adolf Hitler (LAH). On 13 April 1934, by order of Himmler, the regiment became known as the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). The Leibstandarte demonstrated...
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  • Wilhelm Mohnke (category SS-Brigadeführer)
    become one of Adolf Hitler's last remaining general officers at the end of World War II in Europe. With the SS Division Leibstandarte, Mohnke participated...
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    men were selected from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). The majority of these additional men were used by Hitler as guards for his residences...
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    ordered to recruit the personnel. SS-Oberführer Fritz Witt of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) was appointed the divisional...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    known as SS-Stabswache Berlin; the name was changed to SS-Sonderkommando Berlin. In November 1933, the name was changed to Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. In April...
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    Retrieved 11 December 2018. Cook, Stan; Bender, R. James (1994). Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler: Uniforms, Organization, & History. San Jose, CA: R. James Bender...
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  • 1943 – Operation Citadel SS Panzergrenadier Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler SS Panzergrenadier Division Das Reich SS Panzergrenadier Division Totenkopf...
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    SS-Brigade. Hitler's personal guard, known at this stage by the original SS name of Stabswache (later to be known as the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler)...
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    The standard was similar to the banner of the 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" (LSSAH), which had minor differences. After Soviet...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Adolf Hitler's personal staff
    Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, employed a personal staff, which represented different branches and offices throughout his political...
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  • Rudolf von Ribbentrop (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    In February 1943 he was assigned to a Panzer regiment the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler division (LSSAH) and sent to Kharkov in February 1943, where...
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  • Corps (classified SS by 1944) British Free Corps Free Corps Denmark 1st SS Panzer Division ''Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler'' 2nd SS Panzer Division ''Das...
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    August 1939 Adolf Hitler placed the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), later SS Division Leibstandarte, and the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) under the...
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    Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker...
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  • Rochus Misch (category Personal staff of Adolf Hitler)
    was a German Oberscharführer (sergeant) in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). He was badly wounded during the Polish campaign...
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    Normandy) 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend SS Division Götz von...
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    Malmedy massacre (category War crimes of the Waffen-SS)
    roadway for the bulk traffic of the tanks of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the convoys of Kampfgruppe Peiper traveled secondary...
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  • Günther Schwägermann (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    secondary school and later joined the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler on 8 April 1937. He was sent to the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz for officers'...
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    Wormhoudt massacre (category War crimes of the Waffen-SS)
    murder of 81 British and French POWs by Waffen-SS soldiers from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during the Battle of France in May 1940. As...
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    Joachim Peiper (category Hitler Youth members)
    period. As a tank commander, Peiper served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) in the Eastern Front and in the Western Front...
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    Otto Günsche (category Adjutants of Adolf Hitler)
    in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was a member of the SS Division Leibstandarte before he became Adolf Hitler's personal adjutant...
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    commander of the II./SS-Panzer-Regiment "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler". According to Scherzer as Zugführer (platoon leader) in the 6./SS-Panzer-Regiment 5...
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  • Ewald Lindloff (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) on 1 May 1932. On 15 July 1933, Lindloff was accepted into the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). He married Ilse Borchert...
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    transferred to the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). With this unit (which later became part of the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the SS), Meyer took...
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