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Waffen-SS. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler," 1.


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    • Waffen-SS. Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler," 1.
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler"
    • Waffen-SS. SS Armored Division, 1st
    • Waffen-SS. SS Panzer Division, 1st
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte," I.
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte," I.
    • LAH
    • Waffen-SS. Panzer Division LAH
    • Waffen-SS. Division LAH
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Division "LAH"
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler"
    • SS-L.A.H.
    • SS-LAH
    • LSSAH
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Panzer Division "LAH," 1.
    • Waffen-SS. Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "LSSAH"
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler"
    • SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
    • Waffen-SS. SS-Panzer-Korps "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler", I. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler," 1.
    • Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

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          • found: Gefährten unsrer Jugend, 1984:p. 7 (... Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler") jkt. (1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler")
          • found: Order of battle of the German Army, 1945:p. 336 (1st SS Panzer Division (1. SS-Panzer-Division "Leibstandarte--SS Adolf Hitler"); early [19]41: formed as motorized div. by expansion of elements of Leibstandarte (Hitler's Bodyguard regiment); summer [19]42: transferred to northern France and reformed as Panzer division (at first designated SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division)) p. 379 (name given in chart: "LSSAH")
          • found: Walther, H. The 1st SS Armored Division, c1989:t.p.
          • found: Massacre à Malmédy, c1989:p. 21 (SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler")
          • found: Chronicle of the 7. Panzerkompanie ... c1998:t.p. (I. SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte") spine (I. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte") p. 5 (LAH) p. 7 (in Jan. 1942, strengthened infantry regiment (motorized) "LAH" [no publs. in LC database] was promoted to Panzer Grenadier Division [no publs. in LC database]; in later yrs. of war division again promoted in status and re-equipped to form a Panzer Division) p. 12 (motorized infantry divisions ... "LSSAH") p. 14, etc. (in running title: 1. [i.e. arabic numeral] SS-Panzer Division "Leibstandarte") p. 23 (Panzer Division LAH; listed under date Oct. 14, 1942) p. 49 (Division LAH) p. 72 (SS-Division "LAH"; SS-Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler"; SS-L.A.H.) p. 73 (1. SS-Panzer Division "LAH") p. 87 (1. SS-Panzer Division LAH) p. 258 (LSSAH)
          • found: Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, c1996.
          • found: Platz der Leibstandarte, c2002:t.p. (SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "LSSAH") p. vi (SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler")
          • found: Weill, Klaus. Der Polenfeldzug der SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler vom 1.9.39 bis 28.9.39, 1939(SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler)
          • found: LC database, Feb. 8, 2005(hdg.: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Waffenschutzstaffel. Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler)
          • found: Steel inferno, 1997:t.p (I SS Panzer Corps; 1st SS Panzer Division) jkt. (1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler was a unit of the I SS Panzer Corps)
          • found: German Wikipedia, 2 Feb. 2016:Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler page (founded 17 Mar. 1933 as Stabswache Berlin; later called SS-Sonderkommando Berlin; received name Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler on 9 Nov. 1933; abbrev. LSSAH or LAH; became part of the SS-Verfügungstruppe, out of which the Waffen-SS developed in 1940; became "SS-Division (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" in July 1942 in northern France; "SS-Panzergrenadier-Division LSSAH" in Nov. 1942; renamed "1. SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" on 22 Oct. 1943; active 17 Mar. 1933 to 9 May 1945)

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          • 1986-04-03: new
          • 2016-02-03: revised

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