* Derk-Elsko Bruins ( 1923 – 1986 ), Dutch-German decorated member of the Waffen SS

The large Polish daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported that during BdV meetings in 2003, publications using hate-language to describe Poles butchering Germans were available for sale, as were recordings of Waffen SS marches on compact disks, including those glorifying the Invasion of Poland.

Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

The Red Army is widely credited with being the decisive force in the Allied victory in the European Theatre of World War II, having engaged and defeated about 80 % of the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht and much of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front.

In the spring of 1941, Finland contributed a battalion of volunteers to the Waffen SS, which then fought on the Eastern Front.

During the game the player battles Waffen SS soldiers, elite Fallschirmjäger ( paratroopers ) known as Black Guards, undead creatures, and Übersoldaten ( supersoldiers ) formed from a blend of surgery and chemical engineering conducted by Wilhelm " Deathshead " Strasse.

In 1944, the Waffen SS began using a universal camouflage uniform intended to replace the wool field uniform.

The Waffen (" armed ") SS wore a field-grey ( feldgrau ) uniform similar to the regular army, or Heer.

Polish civilians murdered by Waffen-SS troops ( Azeri Waffen SS Volunteer Formations # Ostmuselmanische SS-Regiment | SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger ) in Warsaw Uprising, August 1944.

The majority wore a distinctive national collar patch and preceded their SS rank titles with the prefix Waffen instead of SS.

* Léon Degrelle, Belgian Rexist politician and leader of Waffen SS Walloon contingent

* July 29 – Erich Priebke, Former Hauptsturmführer ( Captain ) in the Waffen SS

* December 21 – Paul Hausser, German Waffen SS general ( b. 1880 )

* 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne ( 1st French )

The initial formation of the volunteer SS Estonian legion created in 1942 was eventually expanded to become a full-sized conscript division of the Waffen-SS in 1944, the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( 1st Estonian ).

During the war, 130, 000 young men from Alsace and Lorraine were forcibly inducted into the German army and in some cases, the Waffen SS.

Early on the morning of 10 June 1944, Diekmann informed Weidinger at regimental headquarters that he had been approached by two members of the Milice, the French secret police that collaborated with the German Gestapo, who claimed that a Waffen SS officer was being held by the Resistance in Oradour-sur-Vayres, a nearby village.

Oradour-sur-Glane was not the only collective punishment reprisal action committed by the Waffen SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne ; Polish villages Michniów, Wanaty and Krasowo-Częstki ; the Soviet village of Kortelisy ( in what is now Ukraine ); Lithuanian village of Pirčiupiai ; the Czechoslovakian villages of Ležáky and Lidice ( in what is now the Czech Republic ); the Greek towns of Kalavryta and Distomo ; the Dutch town of Putten ; Serbian towns of Kragujevac and Kraljevo ; Norwegian village of Telavåg ; and the Italian villages of Sant ' Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto.

Furthermore, the Waffen SS executed hostages ( random or selected in suspect groups ) throughout France as a deterrent to resistance.

He would remain in Berlin until the end of the war, playing a major role in formation of Muslim Waffen SS units and active work preventing thousands of jewish refugees to escape the Nazis and reach Palestine.

In an act of retaliation for the killings on Bloody Sunday, a number of Polish civilians were executed by German military units of the Einsatzgruppen, Waffen SS, and Wehrmacht.

Many of those who escaped arrest fled to Germany, where they were incorporated into the Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS.

* Gustav Lombard ( 1895 – 1992 ), German General of the Waffen SS

In denial about the increasingly dire situation, Hitler placed his hopes on the units commanded by Waffen SS General Felix Steiner, the Armeeabteilung Steiner (" Army Detachment Steiner ").

The castle crew consisted of members of both SS branches, the " General SS " (" Allgemeine SS ") and the " Armed SS " (" Waffen SS ").

In 1931, he joined the SS, where he achieved the rank of Oberführer in both the General SS and the Waffen SS.

Like the commanding Waffen SS General Karl Wolff, Weizsäcker was clearly opposed to Hitler ’ s plan to occupy the Vatican, during which, Weizsäcker feared, the Pope could have been shot, " fleeing while avoiding arrest "

" Frank was also a General of the Waffen SS.

Frank was also made a General of the Waffen SS.

Waffen SS General Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, the commander of the IX Waffen SS Alpine Corps, was put in charge of the city's defences.

*** Waffen Grenadier Regiment 47-Obersturmbannführer Paul Vent

* Died: Gen. Paul Hausser, 92, " Papa " of the German Waffen SS

Hausser authored several books on the Waffen SS and German military.

During the Second World War, the 2nd SS Division Das Reich division of the Waffen SS perpetrated a reprisal massacre of civilians in Tulle, following the killing and maiming of some 40 German soldiers in Tulle on 8 June 1944 by the Maquis Resistance Movement.

The Division was the only Waffen SS unit to fight in the Arctic Circle when it was stationed in Finland and northern Russia between June and November 1941.

Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle ( 15 June 1906 – 31 March 1994 ) was a Walloon Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS ( becoming a leader of its Walloon contingent ) which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union.

The Walloons were transferred from the Wehrmacht to the control of the Waffen SS in June 1943, becoming the 5th SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade Wallonien.

The war in the Soviet Union was going well but the cost to the Waffen SS was extreme, Reich had lost 60 percent of its strength and was still to take part in the Battle of Moscow, and was decimated in the following Soviet offensive ; the Der Führer Regiment was reduced to 35 men out of the 2, 000 that had started the campaign in June.

John Hansl ( January 21, 1925 – June 29, 2007 ) entered the Nazi Waffen SS in 1943, aged eighteen.

On September 29, 1944, during the World War II German occupation of Italy, the town was the site of the worst massacre of civilians committed by the Waffen SS in Italy.