A Leibstandarte Motorcycle Patrol moves thru a destroyed Russian town during the divisions advance East. The first few weeks of &quot;Barbarossa&quot; brought spectacular victories in the face of desperate Russian resistance, yet the Red Army kept on fighting. (scanned by HOS Bandit)

Motorcycle Patrol

Female guards, like these with the SS at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, constituted up to 10 percent of concentration camps' personnel. 
From the New York Times.July 17 2010)

Female Guards

Men of SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Weidinger's Der Fuhrer's Regiment of the Das Reich Division leave Prague after evaquating 1000s of German civilians, female auxiliaries, and a full train load of German wounded. It is ironic that the last official action by a Waffen-SS unit in this sector of the Eastern Front was in fact a mercy mission which resulted in the saving of 1000s of civilians, non-combatants, and wounded personel, as opposed to the wholesale slaughter that accompanied most Waffen-SS operations. He and his men even skirmished with a group of fanatical Nazi's who demanded that they stay and set up a hopeless defence of Prague from the Advancing Soviet Armies. (scanned by HOS Bandit)