Adolf Hitler participated in the Sineitai War.

The regiment took part in the occupation of Sudetenland, the merger of Austria and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, but the first battle was the Polish campaign of 1939. In this campaign, the regiment belonged to the Southern Army Group. Under the command of von Rudenstedt, the Polish Army's No.1 10 Infantry Division was completely annihilated. On September 25th, as a unit of the Southern Army Group, the Leibstandarte Division experienced its first actual combat in Lodz, Warsaw and Maudlin. Hitler and Himmler inspected the Leibstandarte in ancient Zuo Fu. Later, the regiment went all the way with the army group to the gate of Warsaw, and the guard battalion of the guard flag division received a special military flag. In the battle of Poland, the Leibstandarte division suffered 400 casualties. At the same time, the Ministry of Magic created the first atrocity in SS history.

1939 65438+In February, Hitler personally attended the Christmas celebration banquet hosted by the Leibstandarte in Bad Elm, Germany, and presented cigarettes, cakes and a bottle of wine to every member of the army. 1940 In March, Hitler approved the Leibstandarte Division to form an artillery battalion equipped with105mm howitzers. German officials first used the term Waffen-SS that month. After the victory of the Polish campaign, the main attack direction of the German army turned to the low countries and France. The rest regiment in Germany got a new type of No.4 tank, and it was fully motorized. Although the regiment was used as a reserve, its motorized company fought directly in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, under the command of airborne troops. In this battle, Hugo Crass, the squad leader of SS Class II, won the first Iron Cross. However, this regiment also made a serious mistake and killed General kurt student of the airborne troops by mistake. Later, the regiment cooperated with the 7th Armored Division to attack south, aiming at Arras, but was stopped by the British and French allied forces. Skull's attack was not smooth either. After the battle, the regiment reached the canal area in the southeast of Dunkirk, and other troops have also completed the encirclement of the British army. The British expeditionary force can only escape by ship. However, at the critical moment, Hitler issued a "stop" order that made the later generations argue endlessly, but Dietrich did not buy Hitler's account and ordered his men to continue attacking. However, because its flanking troops had stopped attacking according to the Fuehrer's orders, the regiment was stubbornly blocked by the British Expeditionary Force security forces. A few days later, when Hitler ordered the resumption of the attack, the regiment finally broke through the British sniper line. When they arrived at the beach, they found that the British soldiers had fled back to England in everything that could float. The regiment carried out another massacre, and William Moenck of the Warmholt Flag near Dunkirk ordered his men to collectively slaughter 65 (80) British 48th Infantry Division prisoners of war.

In the second stage of the French campaign, the regiment participated as an independent regiment under the command of 14 Army. 14 army began to attack south from the bridgehead of Amiens, but it was stubbornly resisted by the French army and had to retreat. Then the army attacked 75 miles east of Amiens again. The attack went well. 14 troops crossed the Seine, cutting off a large number of French troops' retreat in the Loire River. The war on the western front ended with1France's surrender on June 25th, 939. 14 troops drove all the way along the French coast to the Spanish border and occupied the rest of France. During this period, the regiment mainly participated in the fighting in Moulins, Pourcain and St. Etienne.

After the Battle of France, the regiment rested in France. In order to prepare for the upcoming "Sea Lion Project", the regiment practiced amphibious operations hard. 1940 in July, George Capra, Paul Hausel and "Sepp" Dietrich were awarded the Knights Cross at the victory ceremony held at the Reichstag in Berlin. Himmler presented the flag bearing Hitler's name to the Leibstandarte stationed in Metz, Germany. On August 1940, the Youth League was strengthened into a brigade organization. 1940 In September, Himmler awarded a new flag to the Leibstandarte Division at a celebration ceremony held in the fortress of Mace Alvins Leben. After the wars in Yugoslavia and Greece, the regiment was upgraded to an SS infantry division and expanded to a mechanized infantry division. At this time, the total strength was 10796 and the average age was 19. It was immediately transferred to Prague, followed by the Southern Army Group, and once again, under the command of von rundstedt, it took part in the "Barbarossa Action" that raided the Soviet Union. The Southern Army Group successfully attacked, from lublin to Visva, aiming at the western Ukraine. The division first appeared in the invasion of the Soviet Union, when it raided the fortified areas of Tarter to open the door to Crimea.

From there, the Southern Army Group turned its attack target to Kiev, and the division and the "Viking Division" followed the 1 1 army and the 17 army to surround the sixth, 12 and 18 armies of the Soviet Union in Uman, totaling 23. Among them, the commanders of the 6th and 12 armies of the Soviet Union seized 3 17 armored combat vehicles, 858 artillery pieces, 242 anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns, more than 5,000 trucks, 0/2 railway trains and countless other war materials. The casualties in the Soviet Union exceeded 200,000. After the battle of Uman, the Germans left the area and advanced on the broad front of the Dnieper River. There was no great resistance from the enemy all the way, and we arrived at the Dnieper River line between Kiev and Zug and Clemen in the third week of August. In the Battle of Taganrog, the division found that the Soviets had shot and killed six captured SS soldiers. In retaliation, Dietrich ordered the division to "not accept any surrender" in the next three days. In Taganrog, Soviet Union, division commander Dietrich ordered the slaughter of 4,000 Soviet prisoners of war.

After the victory of the battle of Kiev, the division took part in the assault on Rostov, an important town in the southwest of the Soviet Union, in 194 1 year and1month. Although it once broke into the city, it was met with crazy resistance from the Soviet Union and retreated, forcing von rundstedt to order the troops to turn to defense. Hitler flew into a rage and dismissed Lundstedt. /kloc-in the summer of 0/942, after the terrible Russian winter in Donets, the division returned to Germany for reorganization, becoming the third SS Panzergrenadier Division (equipped with two Panzergrenadier Regiments) after the Imperial Division and the Skull Division. 194165438+In February, General eberhard von Mackensen, Commander of the 3rd Armored Corps, wrote in a letter to Himmler: Every unit wants to fight side by side with the division of the Leibstandarte. They are well-trained, full of optimism and strong fighting enthusiasm, and fearless in times of crisis. ......................................................................

As a reward for his fighting, the division moved to Toulon, France (1942). In June, 2002, at the next victory parade across Paris, the Leibstandarte was reviewed by Marshal Lund Stedt. 1942 July 15 changed its name to "Adolf Hitler's SS Flag Guard" (motorized) infantry division. 1October 22nd, 1942, 10, the division was renamed as the Panzergrenadier Division of the SS "Adolf Hitler's Guards Flag Team" (hereinafter referred to as LSSAH Division). Issa division is the occupation army of Vichy, France. The strength of the whole division is: 678 officers, 2065438 non-commissioned officers and +066 soldiers. Some members of the LSSAH division were transferred to the 9 th SS armored division under construction as the basic backbone. 1943, the division returned to the Eastern Front and participated in the Battle of Kharkov as part of Paul Hauser's newly formed SS Panzer Corps. In this battle, the Soviet army lost 52 divisions and brigades, more than 20,000 soldiers were killed, more than 600 tanks were lost, and 700 Soviet wounded died in hospital beds in Kharkov, the Soviet Union. 1943 On March 2 1 day, Hitler added a double sword to Dietrich's Knights Cross. Hitler also told Dietrich that he planned to transfer officers from Hylsa's Hershey Division (including regiment and company officers) to form the basic backbone of SS 1 Panzer Corps and SS 12 "Hitler Youth League" Panzer Division. In the Battle of Kharkov, Hylsa suffered 4500 casualties, accounting for 44% of the total combatants. The whole division was transferred to repair and supplement, and 2,500 air force supplementary personnel were received; In June, Dietrich stepped down and "Teddy" Vichy took over as a teacher. As the Germans captured Kharkov, the "fortress war" of the Soviet troops surrounding the Kursk salient was ready to go.

1in the early morning of July 5, 943, the Soviet army unexpectedly shelled the starting position of the German attack and its depth. The battle of Kursk began. Under the command of Manstein, the division was accompanied by the 332nd Infantry Division, the 3rd Armored Division, the "Great Germany" Mechanized Division, the 1st167th Infantry Division, the 2nd SS "Imperial" Armored Division, the 3rd SS "Skull Head" Armored Division, the 1st168th Infantry Division, the 6th Armored Division and the 7th Infantry Division. In the early morning of July 1943, the division (under the command of the Second Panzer Corps of the SS, flanked by the 48th Panzer Corps) heard the deafening roar of tank engines from positions near Holovka. The 403 tanks (233T-34) and the 2 1 self-propelled artillery belonging to the Tanker No.8 and No.29 of the Fifth Guards of Grassland Army appeared at the front of German positions. The biggest tank battle in history is about to start in this narrow battlefield of 15 square kilometers.

At this time, the division has 67 tanks and 10 assault guns. The number of tanks and assault guns that Germany participated in Holovka War was 198.

At 6: 30 in the morning, the German Air Force began bombing the Soviet lines. Then at half past eight, the Germans and Soviets attacked almost at the same time. The two armies collided head-on in Yuan Ye on the outskirts of Holovka. In the charge, Soviet tanks paid a terrible price. Under the bombardment of German tiger tanks and 88 mm anti-tank guns, one Soviet tank after another exploded and caught fire, but the Soviet troops did not retreat. 12 for a whole day, the Soviets launched wave after wave of attacks almost nonstop, and the soldiers on both sides were "crazy". Tankers with damaged tanks shot at each other with light weapons and even fought hand to hand. The fierce fighting continued until the evening, and the exhausted sides stopped fighting. The Soviets failed to complete the task of destroying the Second SS Panzer Corps, but the German breakthrough to Holovka was blocked.

The 29th Soviet Tank Corps suffered heavy losses in the battle, with losses as high as more than 50%, while the 170 and 181tank brigades put into battle by18/tank corps also suffered heavy losses, but the army still maintained a complete10 tank brigade and10 tank brigade. Generally speaking, the Soviets lost about 180 tanks and self-propelled guns in Holovka in 12. At the same time, the Germans lost nearly 50% of their total strength, that is, 80 ~ 90 tanks and assault guns.

A few days after the Battle of 12, the second SS Panzer Corps continued to attack, surrounded several Soviet infantry positions and occupied some strategically valuable highlands. However, Hitler has lost the will to continue fighting. After receiving the news that the allied forces landed in Sicily, Hitler decided to abandon the Battle of Kursk and withdraw his troops to save his strength and prepare for defense.

The battle of Kursk ended in the defeat of the Germans, and Dietrich also left the team. The division was sent to Italy to carry out some tasks to eliminate guerrillas. In this incident, the division committed another atrocity in the small town of Boves. Hylsa Division received information that Italian "rebels" arrested two SS officers and planned to attack Hylsa Division. Therefore, joachim peiper ordered a 150 mm howitzer to bomb the suspected rebel stronghold in Boves, killing 34 civilians. )。 Upgrade to ss armored division

Since then, the division has returned to the Eastern Front. After repeated fierce fighting, the Hylsa Hershey Division suffered heavy losses, leaving only three tanks and four self-propelled guns available. But soon, they were encircled by the Soviets in Kamenets-podol, together with 2,500 people from the 1 armored division, 16 armored division and the "Imperial Division". However, the 2nd SS Panzer Corps, composed of the 9th and 10 SS Panzer Divisions, successfully rescued these besieged troops. Although Hylsa Division succeeded in breaking through, the troops suffered a devastating blow, leaving only 1 250 troops in the whole division. The division retreated to France again to rest.

1March 944, the division was upgraded to the SS armored division. The division was allowed to rest and replenish in Belgium because its strength was less than half of the standard total strength. Hylsa Hershey Division was stationed in Tenhout, Belgium, and received more than 2,000 recruits from SS 12 "Adolf Hitler Youth League" armored division. In that month, after renovation and supplement, Hylsa Heshi had 1969 1 or 2 1386 officers and men (208 officers and 2,234 non-commissioned officers can be confirmed), 45 self-propelled guns, 50 IV tanks, 38 leopard tanks and 29 tiger tanks. . When the Allied forces landed in Normandy, the division braved the bombing of the Allied bombers and rushed to Caen, France, ready to resist the American attack with the 1 16 Armored Division, the Second Armored Division, the Imperial Division and the 17 SS Panzergrenadier Division under the command of Paul Hausel.

At that time, the division was temporarily attached to the 12 SS armored division1kloc-0/SS armored battalion (under the command of "armored" Meyer), and was equipped with the only "tiger" tank unit of the German army in Normandy. 1On June 3rd, 944, Michael Wei Teman, the second company commander of the battalion and the squadron leader of SS II Commando, attacked Willers-Boccacci, a village occupied by British troops, destroying 27 British tanks and several other vehicles, creating a classic example of tank warfare.

Mitchell Wei Teman, the captain of SS commando, was the most famous tank commander in World War II. He destroyed 138 tanks and 132 anti-tank guns. However, the RAF did not spare any moving German tanks on the ground. Hurricane fighters of the 254th Falcon Squadron used open-air rockets to kill a large number of German tanks. This greatly hindered the advance of the first SS armored division. It was not until July that the division finally reached the war zone.

Ardennis counterattack

Although the Germans in Normandy resisted stubbornly, as Rommel predicted, if the first line of defense-the beach could not stop the allied forces from landing, it would be meaningless to use the reserve forces to fight back afterwards. In Fares, the Allies used a small number of troops as bait to lure the Germans deeper. The Germans who realized that they had been recruited began to retreat, but it was too late. Farce's encirclement has been formed, and the main German forces in France have been annihilated. 1944 On August 29th, LSSAH Division was scattered. On September 29th, 1944, 1 F, LSSAH Division had lost all its tanks and artillery. The 1st SS Panzer Division, which managed to escape, retreated to siegfried line, and some of them took part in the Battle of Aachen.

1944 65438+in February, Hitler's high hopes of Ardennes counterattack began. As a part of the sixth armored division of the SS, the division entered the war under the command of its old boss Dietrich. LSSAH division was ordered to participate in the Ardennes counterattack, and the whole division was divided into four battle groups, namely Kampfgruppe Hansen, Kampfgruppe Sandig, Knitel (Fast Cluster), Schnelle Gruppe, Kampf Gruppe Peiper, the pioneer of the attack and the most powerful battle group. The "Peppel Battle Group" of this division, under the command of joachim peiper, the second-class commando captain of the SS, broke into Belgium and reached the Meuse River. However, as the weather clears up, the rhetoric of "Tiger King" heavy tanks and "taking Antwerp before Christmas" is not as good as that of powerful allied fighter-bomber formations. On the 24th, due to the shortage of materials, the battle group withdrew from the battlefield after destroying all vehicles. 65438+ 10 month, Ardennes counterattacked completely failed.

The Marmetti massacre made by Payper Battle Group was revealed. Payper took 90 disarmed American prisoners of war to the farm next to Marmetti road and shot them all with machine guns. On February 20th, 1944, 130 Belgian civilians (including 47 women, 23 children, and even 9-month-old babies and 60-year-old people) were massacred by Hylsa Division on the grounds of aiding the US military.

Back to the eastern front

After Ardennes' counterattack failed, the division, which was still part of the Sixth Panzer Corps of the SS, returned to the Eastern Front and prepared to rescue the German cluster surrounded by Soviet troops in Budapest, Hungary. Code-named "Spring Awakening", this was the last German attack on the Eastern Front. However, this attack was hit head-on by two Soviet divisions and 3000 tanks, and the division had to retreat to the west.

1945 February 15, otto kum, brigade commander of the SS brigade, became the division commander of Hylsa. LSSAH division went to Hungary to participate in the upcoming "spring awakening" action. At this time, the whole division also has 25 Leopard tanks and 2 1 IV tanks. Hylsa's Hershey suffered heavy losses in the Hungarian Battle of Gran, and the number of tanks decreased sharply to 1 1 Leopard tanks and 12 armored IV tanks. 1On February 26th, 945, he participated in the offensive operation codenamed "Pinghu" to prevent the Soviet troops from entering Austria. The "Pinghu" offensive began. 1March, 94514th, Hitler flew into a rage when he learned that the attack on Pinghu failed, and ordered Hylsa Division, Imperial Division, Skeleton Division and Hohensdobbin Division to take down the armbands of honor from their military uniforms. Dietrich, then commander of the sixth SS Panzer Corps, refused to carry out this order. On March 1945 and 16, the LSSAH division acted as a defender to cover the retreat of the entire SS 6th Panzer Corps. There are only less than 1700 men left in the whole division, and 16 tanks.