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  1. flammpanzer

    flammpanzer Member

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    can smn give me some info bout this what the symbols make if this are div of waffen ss( if all of them are here)
    here i post

    [​IMG][​IMG]http://www.panzertruppen.org/ss/panzer/marcas.jpg
     
  2. flammpanzer

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    What about them? They are all divisional and unit vehicle markings for the Waffen-SS. Some showing the difference over a period of time.
     
  4. tikilal

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    I am with JC on this your first post did not make much sense.
     
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    After looking at the site that your picture comes from... tengo pregunta. Hablas espanol? Si quieres puedes post en espanol. Sera que esto sea mejor.
     
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    if u guys can help me is to provide me of the meaning of the symbols here and if all of the waffenss div are hre or only a fraction
     
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    si si hablo español pero como muy poca gente habla aca es este foro no cre que sea apropiado que hable en español
     
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    Those are only a fraction of the list. There were 38 commissioned Waffen SS divisions in the war. The runic symbols were first used at the beginning of the war. Don't know when they stopped using them. Might have been 42' when they did.

    Waffen-SS divisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
     
  9. tikilal

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    No tegas pena. Hay que praticar pero a veces es deficil de entenderte. Quisas ques puedes poner tu posts en las dos idiomas.

    To answer your question here is a list of most of the SS divisions.

    1.SS-Pz.Div. "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler"
    2.SS-Pz.Div. "Das Reich"
    3.SS-Pz.Div. "Totenkopf"
    4.SS-Pol.Pz.Gren.Div.
    5.SS-Pz.Div. "Wiking"
    6.SS-Geb.Div. "Nord"
    7.SS-Freiw.Geb.Div. "Prinz Eugen"
    8.SS-Kav.Div. "Florian Geyer"
    9.SS-Pz.Div. "Hohenstaufen"
    10.SS-Pz.Div. "Frundsberg"

    11.SS-Freiw.Pz.Gren.Div. "Nordland"
    12.SS-Pz.Div. "Hitler Jugend"
    13.Waffen-Geb.Div. der SS "Handschar" (kroatische Nr. 1)
    14.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS (galizische. Nr. 1 auch ukrainische Nr. 1)
    15.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS (lettische Nr. 1)
    16.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. "Reichsführer SS"
    17.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. "Götz von Berlichingen"
    18.SS-Freiw.Pz.Gren.Div. "Horst Wessel"
    19.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS (lettische Nr. 2)
    20.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS (estnische Nr. 1)

    21.Waffen-Geb.Div. der SS "Skanderbeg" (albanische Nr. 1)
    22.SS-Freiw.Kav.Div. "Maria Theresa"
    23.Waffen-Geb.Div. der SS "Kama" (kroatische Nr. 2)
    23.SS-Freiw. Pz.Gren. Div. "Nederland" (niederlandische Nr. 1)
    24.Waffen-Geb.Karstjäger Div. der SS
    25.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS "Hunyadi" (ungarische Nr. 1)
    26. Waffen-Gr. Div. SS "Hungaria" (ungarische Nr. 2)
    27.SS-Freiw. Gr. Div. "Langemarck" (flämische Nr. 1)
    28.SS-Freiw.Gr. Div. "Wallonien"
    29.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS (russische Nr. 1)
    29.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS (italienische Nr. 1)
    30.Waffen-Gr.Div. der SS (weissruthenische Nr. 1; auch russische Nr. 2)

    31.SS-Freiw.Gr.Div.
    32.SS-Freiw.Gren.Div. "30. Januar"
    33.Waffen-Kav.Div. der SS (ungarische Nr. 3)
    33.Waffen-Gren.Div. der SS "Charlemagne" (französische Nr. 1)
    34.SS-Gren.Div. "Landstorm Nederland" (niederlandische Nr. 2)
    35.SS-Polizei-Gren. Div.
    36.Waffen-Gren. Div. der SS
    37.SS-Freiw.Kav.Div. "Lützow"
    38.SS-Gren.Div. "Nibelungen

    It seems from your picture that they tried to take the creation order and make it part of the symbols used.

    Totenkopf is Deaths head in German.

    The Wiking seems to have a Galic version of the swastika, perhaps refering to their galic heritage.

    Frundsburg starts with an F so it seems logical.

    Is this what you were asking?
     
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    ty but what means the fist in the "Götz von Berlichingen" div
     
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    The fist in GOTZ VON BERLICHINGEN'S div sign represents the artifical iron fist made for the man of the same name they were named after ,he lost his hand in 1505 in a battle before Landshut while he was coming to the aid of Albert the fourth Duke of Bavaria. The hand was made by a blacksmith from Olnhausen and proved a technical masterpiece
     
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    EH HEM:)
     

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