3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf
The 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" was an elite division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II, formed from the Standarten of the SS-TV. Its name, Totenkopf, is German for "death's head" – the skull and crossbones symbol – and it is thus sometimes referred to as the Death's Head Division.
Motorized troops of the division during Operation Barbarossa in September 1941
1943 Picture of Jewish prisoners in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; the SS man at right has the "Totenkopf" insignia on his collar
British prisoners of war with a Pz.Kpfw Ib German tank in Calais in May, 1940
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1974 160 13A, Theodor Eicke
The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both German-occupied Europe and unoccupied lands. It was disbanded in May 1945.
Waffen-SS troops in the Soviet Union, 1941
Parade for the third anniversary of the LSSAH on the barracks' grounds with Sepp Dietrich at the lectern, May 1935
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler on parade in Berlin, 1938
Members of the Einsatzgruppen murdering Polish civilians in Kórnik shortly after the outbreak of World War II in Europe
