9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen
The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" was a Waffen-SS armoured division of Nazi Germany during World War II. It participated in battles on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. The division was activated in December 1942. Many of the men of the division were young German conscripts, with a cadre of NCOs and staff from the SS Division Leibstandarte and other Waffen SS divisions. Hohenstaufen took part in the relief of German forces in the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket, the Normandy battles, Operation Market Garden, the Ardennes Offensive and Operation Spring Awakening. The division surrendered to the United States Army on 8 May 1945, at Steyr.
Soldiers ride a Sturmgeschütz III through the streets of Arnhem during Market Garden
Members of the 9. SS Div. captured by British forces after the Battle of Arnhem
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild Wilhelm Bittrich
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 101III Zschaeckel 192 24A, Russland, Sylvester Stadler
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
