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It's illegal in Sweden and Germany to display any sort of Nazi object. That includes Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" too! The Leibstandarte "Key" is not forbidden in Germany. For example, the divisional shield with Key symbol can be found on model kits but also on all sorts of object...

17 SS Panzer Grenadier wrote:ReinhardH, I must let you know that displaying the Leibstandarte key in several places is illegal.

Illegal? Where's that?

Sid is correct, the Waffen SS has indeed committed war crimes at ASCQ, Tulle and Oradour but the latter two was a provocation by the bolshevik partisans. Panzermahn, how could it be provoked by the partisans and why do you insist that it was bolshevik? Note: Take for example Oradour being a hotbed ...

Why this emphasis on the resistance being honorable or not? It had no role in Oradour: Take for example Oradour being a hotbed of resistance activity – (the SD thought it might be, at least according to Weidinger). Sarah Farmer writes, "The precise reason this town was chosen is still unclear. ...

liuanru wrote:8000 is claimed by member of the division, 4800 were proven, supposidly

What source did you use?

The atrocities of ASCQ, Tulle and Oradour were often provoked by the partisans (usually bolsheviks ones) Take for example Oradour being a hotbed of resistance activity – (the SD thought it might be, at least according to Weidinger). Sarah Farmer writes, "The precise reason this town was chosen...

liuanru wrote:I've heard that 2nd ss das reich had 4800 confirmed tank kills. Was this surpassed by any other formation?

Yes, by the 2nd SS das reich, a division that seems to double its kills at an interesting speed:

liuanru wrote:i think das reich had 8000 claimed.

I am not disputing that Waffen SS did not killed innocent civilians. I am curious and perplexed that partisans and resistance fighters usually boast if their achievements, one way or the other but why are the FTP people keep silence even until today. There are no memoirs, in English or in French, r...

Jan-Hendrik: be careful with such comments on Sankt Patrick, or Piet Duits will come storming in and accuse you of being Timo

Involved LSSAH Kampfgruppen: - Kuhlmann (reinforced Panzer-Regiment LSSAH) - Heimann (reinforced Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung LSSAH) - Sandig (reinforced Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment LSSAH) - Knittel (reinforced Aufklärungs-Abteilung LSSAH) Size depends on involved units and available personell. Especially ...

17 SS Panzer Grenadier wrote:I'm suprised they didn't have much effect since it was the first SS Panzer Division

The division had been decimated in the preceding months of action in the Ukrainian winter.

Steppenwolf wrote:and Germany DID send it's chief sniper instructor into the city during the battle

Odd, because Germany did not have a "chief sniper instructor".

*voice from above*

Yes you, M.H., it is your holy task to set off on a journey, to overcome great perils in search for a full Hansen biography.

Well, looks like there's a task for you: start researching

Most commanders of the LSSAH got their book/exhausting bio about them but not him. I wonder why? :?: Apart from Meyer and Peiper, who have? There's nothing on Wisch, Mohnke, Schönberger, Kuhlmann, Pötschke, Gross, Frey, Schiller, Kraas, Sandig, Becker, Knittel, Rettlinger or Ullerich to name a few....