August Schmidhuber
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August Schmidhuber was an SS-Brigadeführer who commanded two Waffen-SS divisions in occupied Yugoslavia and Albania during the latter stages of World War II. He was executed by the post-war Yugoslav a
Schmidhuber in 1941
August Schmidhuber (left) as regimental commander next to Artur Phleps commander of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen.
National Hero of Yugoslavia Petar Vojvodić arrests the German general August Schmidhuber, whom he previously disarmed and forced to surrender, (Slovenia, May 1945).
The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen", initially named the SS-Volunteer Division Prinz Eugen, was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi Party
August Schmidhuber
…this command until the end of 1940. On 21 June 1941 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer and a year later he became regimental commander in the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. On 20 April 1943 Schmidhuber was promoted to SS-Standartenführer (colonel). From 28 November to late December 1943, then from 11 January to early…
Croatian Homeguards of German ethnic background enlisting in the SS
Vehicles of Prinz Eugen's 7th Panzer Battalion (including SOMUA S35 and Hotchkiss H39 tanks) laagering on the outskirts of a Bosnian town in 1941
Prinz Eugen soldiers disarming the Lim-Sandžak Chetnik Detachment prior to Operation Schwarz, May 1943
Prinz Eugen MG 42 position on the Dalmatian coast, 1943