Karl Ullrich was the last commander of the SS Division Wiking in the Waffen-SS during World War II. After the war he authored an account of the SS Division Totenkopf.
Ullrich as an SS-Standartenführer
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking
The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany. During World War II, the division served on the Eastern Front. It surrendered on 9 May 1945 to the American forces in Austria.
Troops of the division in the Soviet Union in 1941.
A German SdKfz 251 armoured fighting vehicle of the Wiking Division captured by the Polish insurgents
Warsaw Uprising insurgents inspect war trophies including an armband with the Wiking name
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1973 138 14A, Felix Steiner