Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)
In 1933, before the Waffen-SS, there was a portion of the Nazi Party’s Schutzstaffel (SS), armed and trained along military lines and served as an armed force. Read more
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)
There is no shortage of museums in the Belgian Ardennes to record the region’s dark winter of World War II. Read more
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)
In the first installment, a large German force made a surprise counteroffensive against American positons along the Belgian-German border—an operation that became known in the West as “the Battle of the Bulge.” Read more
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)
It was less than a month since the great blood letting in the Orel salient in July 1943 had taken place, and just some months to go before the infamous Second Battle of Kiev. Read more
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)
Rostov was the key to the Caucasus and the rich Soviet oil fields that lay along the Black and Caspian Seas. Read more
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)
One of the foremost German characters in the Battle of the Bulge was Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) Joachim Peiper, the notorious Waffen-SS commander of the strongest armored Kampfgruppe (KG) of the 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). Read more
Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)
In January 12, 1945, Adolf Hitler received the news he had been dreading—the Soviet Red Army had launched its winter offensive. Read more
