SS Florian was an Ellerman Lines cargo steamship that was launched in 1939 and completed in 1940. A U-boat sank her with all hands in 1941 in the Battle...
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8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" was a German Waffen-SS cavalry division during World War II. It was formed in 1942 from a cadre of the SS Cavalry...
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Sankt Florian (also Florian or St. Florian) is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. It is 10 miles (16 km) from Linz. Sankt Florian is the home...
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"Nord" 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" 10th SS Panzer Division...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
some squadrons. Fegelein was appointed as commander of the 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" on 20 April 1943. This unit saw service in the Soviet...
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personnel was transferred to the newly formed SS Division Florian Geyer. The SS Cavalry Brigade was based on the SS Totenkopf Horse Regiment, which was raised...
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a heroic figure by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer was named after him in March 1944, during World War II...
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Hermann Fegelein (category SS-Gruppenführer)
Marshes massacres in the Byelorussian SSR. As commander of the 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer in 1943, he was involved in operations against partisans...
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Wilhelm Bittrich (category Waffen-SS personnel)
high-ranking Waffen-SS commander of Nazi Germany. Between August 1942 and February 1943, Bittrich commanded the SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer, in rear...
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December 1943, the 17th SS-Cavalry Regiment from the 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer was ordered to become the cadre for a new SS cavalry division. On...
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