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Waffen SS Division Totenkopf truck, Eastern Front
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Waffen SS soldiers posing beside a Sd.Kfz 11
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5.SS-Panzer-Division “Wiking” troops during Battle in Korsun Cherkassy Pocket 1944
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Renault AGC trucks of the Waffen-SS
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Josef Dietrich in France, LAH 1942
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SS gun crew opens fire with Pak 36 on Eastern Front 1941
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Soldiers of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
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Waffen-SS soldiers advancing on enemy on Eastern Front
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Soldier of the Waffen-SS
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Rottenfuhrer from S Sturmgeschütz Abteilung
“Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler”
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Soldiers of the 2. SS-Panzerdivision “Das Reich”
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1st SS Panzer Division “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” motorcycle unit moves south thru Greece 1942
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Waffen SS Cavalry
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Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” 2
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Soldiers of the 3. SS-Panzerdivision “Totenkopf”, Winter
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Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” 1943/1944
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Flak-Kanoniere of the 2 SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich wave a flag to alert the German pilots above them Belgorod 1943
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LSSAH Soldiers during Operation Marita Greece 1941
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6. SS-Gebirgs-Division “Nord” man with 7,5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 in Finland
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Obersturmbannfuhrer Franz Hack from 5. SS-Panzerdivision “Wiking”
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Soldiers riding a BMW R12 with side car
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Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Division Das Reich Eastern Front
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Unterscharfuhrer with MP40 Machine Pistol Eastern Front 1942
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Waffen-SS soldier 2
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Soldiers of the Waffen SS 2
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Waffen-SS troops dig grave, Eastern Front 1941
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Waffen SS soldier firing Mauser 98k on Eastern Front
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Kradschutzen of the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler riding a KS600 Zundapp motorcycle sidecar combo through a destroyed Russian village, 1942
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1st SS LSSAH soldiers in action in Mariupol October 1941
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Soldiers of the Waffen-SS 4
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Soldiers of the 1 SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 1943/1944
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Soldiers of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar 2
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Soldiers of the Waffen-SS with halftrack Holland
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Soldiers of the Totenkopf Division 2
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Waffen SS troops with MG34 mounted on Lafette heavy tripod 1940
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Troops of LSSAH clear town during Operation Barbarossa
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Waffen-SS Officer, Russia
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Soldiers of the SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
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Soldiers of the Waffen-SS Totenkopf Division with PPSH 41
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Waffen-SS in Russia 1941
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Waffen SS trops with MG 34 attacking village on Eastern Front
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Soldiers of the Waffen SS, Russia 1942
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Horch 901 of the 5th Panzer Division Wiking
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Kavallerie Waffen-SS
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Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
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Soldiers from Waffen-SS Regiment Nordland
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Waffen-SS Kradmelder with BMW R12
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Soldiers of 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during Operation Barbarossa 1941
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Soldiers preparing a meal at an outpost on the Western Front 1940
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Soldiers of the 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” 1943/1944 2
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Soldier from 3 SS Division Totenkopf on Eastern Front 1943
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Panzergrenadier squad in Kharkov February 1943
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Waffen SS soldiers attacking a Russian village July 1941
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Soldiers from 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar
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6th SS Mountain Division Nord troops advance on Murmansk 1941
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Waffen-SS Officers
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Waffen-SS troops
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Waffen-SS 1. SS-Panzerdivision “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” in Greece
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Troops from 3. SS-Panzerdivision “Totenkopf”
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SS Hauptsturmfuhrer of the 6th SS Mountain Division ‘Nord’ thanks his men for successful operations in the Kola Peninsula 1942
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Soldiers of the Waffen SS
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Soldiers of Waffen SS in action with flammenwerfer 35 1942
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Soldiers of Waffen SS with Eiserne Kreuz France
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Soldiers of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler 1943/1944 3
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German soldiers of the 1st SS-Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler examine a captured Soviet war flag somewhere in the Ukraine 1941
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German soldiers of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord in position on the Kola Peninsula during Operation Arctic Fox, 1942
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Waffen SS soldiers pushing truck out of hole 1941
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Soldiers of the Waffen SS 5
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German soldiers of the Waffen-SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
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Soldier advances with pistol ready on Russian Front 1941
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Kradmelder from LAH
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Troops of the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler just before the final assalut during the Battle of Vevi, also known as the Battle of the Klidi Pass, 1941
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Soldiers of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French), 1941
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SdKfz 232 and Horch 901 cars from 1st SS Aufklarungs Abteilung LAH
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Soldiers of the Waffen SS in action
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2nd SS Panzer Division “Das Reich” Kharkov 1943
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Soldiers of the Waffen-SS 3
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Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising 2
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Soldiers of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, Eastern Front
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Waffen-SS 9
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Soldiers of Waffen SS in action with flammenwerfer 35 1942 2
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Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising
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Waffen-SS troops during Warsaw Uprising 3
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Kradschutze of 3rd SS Totenkopf aid wounded comrade
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Soldiers of the Division Das Reich Eastern Front
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Waffen SS soldier 3
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Soldiers of the Waffen SS 1945
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A group of Waffen-SS soldiers posing with a captured KV-1
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Soldiers and truck of the LAH
Waffen-SS was the combat arm of the Schutzstaffel. Headed by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the Waffen-SS saw action throughout the Second World War.
After beginning as a protection unit for the NSDAP leadership, by October 1944 the Waffen-SS had grown into a force of 38 combat divisions comprising over 910,000 men, including a number of elite army units. In the testimony given at the Nuremberg Trials, the Waffen-SS was condemned as a criminal organisation due to their involvement with the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), and Waffen-SS veterans were denied many of the rights afforded other German combat veterans who had served in the Heer, Luftwaffe or Kriegsmarine. Conscripts were exempted from the judgment on the basis of involuntary servitude.