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Wolfsangel or Crampon is a heraldic charge from mainly Germany and eastern France, which was inspired by medieval European wolf traps that consisted of a Z-shaped metal hook that was hung by a chain f
8th-century wolf hook from the Carolingian-era Villa Arnesburg in Lich, Germany
Reconstruction of a wolf hook (Z-shape) chained to a wolf anchor (crescent bar)
1299 seal of Countess Udilhild, née von Wolfach
Horizontal Wolfsangel as a mason's mark, 15th-century church
The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich or SS Division Das Reich was an armored division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Wolfsangel
…a hero in the Thirty Years' War. The Ƶ-symbol was later adopted by the Nazi Party, and was used by various German Wehrmacht and SS units such as the Waffen-SS Division Das Reich and the Waffen-SS Division Landstorm Nederland. The Anti-Defamation League, and others, list the Ƶ-symbol as a hate and a neo-Nazi symbol. The Wolfsangel…
The division near Kirovograd, Soviet Union, December 1943, two Tiger tanks
Division's Tiger I tank, during the Battle of Kursk
Burned out cars and buildings still litter the untouched remains of the original village of Oradour-sur-Glane
Walter Krüger, Heinrich Himmler and Paul Hausser near Kharkov, Soviet Union, April 1943