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The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking (German: 5. SS-Panzerdivision Wiking) or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany. During World War II, the division served on the Eastern Front. It surrendered on 9 May 1945 to the American forces in Austria.
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Wiking helped to push the Soviets out of Warsaw and back across the Vistula River where the Front stabilized until January 1945. Wiking was pulled from Warsaw in December 1944 and transferred south for the attempted break-through to Budapest to rescue 45,000 trapped Germans located in that City.
2.8K. 107K views 1 year ago. As we venture into the depths of history, we meticulously examine the origins, formation, and actions of the 5th SS Wiking Division. Through thorough research and...
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Aug 1, 2019 · The Wiking Division would win further laurels in the drive to the Caucasus Mountains and then in the defensive fighting in the southern Ukraine during the winter of 1942-1943. The spring of 1942 was a relatively quiet time for Wiking, Steiner incorporating lessons learned from the Barbarossa fighting.
The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking was one of the elite Panzer divisions of the thirty eight Waffen SS divisions. It was recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers. During the course of World War...
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Designations, commanders, creation, Russia 1941, Caucasus 1942-43, Eastern Front 1944 and Hungary 1945. SS-Obergruppenfuehrer Felix Steiner as commander of the 5th SS-Panzer-Division Wiking at the issue of orders in 1943. The Wiking-Division was the first foreign volunteer division of the Waffen-SS.
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