List of Waffen-SS units

This is an incomplete list of Waffen-SS units.

Waffen-SS armies

Unit Name Engagements Notable Commanders Parent Unit
6th SS Panzer Army Battle of the Bulge, Operation Spring Awakening, Vienna Offensive Sepp Dietrich Army Group B (December 1944)

Army Group South (March 1945)

11th SS Panzer Army Eastern Front, Operation Solstice Felix Steiner OB West

Waffen-SS corps

Waffen-SS divisions

  • 1st SS Panzer Division ''Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler''
  • 2nd SS Panzer Division ''Das Reich'' (previously SS ''Verfügungs'' Division, later SS Panzergrenadier Division ''Das Reich'')
  • 3rd SS Panzer Division ''Totenkopf'' (previously SS Panzergrenadier Division ''Totenkopf'')
  • 4th SS Panzergrenadier Division ''Polizei''
  • 5th SS Panzer Division ''Wiking'' (previously SS Panzergrenadier Division ''Wiking'')
  • 6th SS Gebirgs Division ''Nord'
  • 7th SS Freiwilligen Gebirgs Division ''Prinz Eugen''
  • 8th SS Cavalry Division ''Florian Geyer''
  • 9th SS Panzer Division ''Hohenstaufen''
  • 10th SS Panzer Division ''Frundsberg''
  • 11th SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division ''Nordland''
  • 12th SS Panzer Division ''Hitlerjugend''
  • 13th Waffen Gebirgs Division of the SS ''Handschar'' (1st Croatian)
  • 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Ukrainian) (unofficially known as ''Galizien'')
  • 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian)
  • 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division ''Reichsführer-SS''
  • 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division ''Götz von Berlichingen''
  • 18th SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division ''Horst Wessel''
  • 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian)
  • 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian)
  • 21st Waffen Gebirgs Division of the SS ''Skanderbeg'' (1st Albanian)
  • 22nd SS Freiwilligen Cavalry Division ''Maria Theresia''
  • 23rd Waffen Gebirgs Division of the SS ''Kama'' (2nd Croatian)
  • 23rd SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division ''Nederland'' (1st Dutch) (formed after the dissolution of the 23rd ''Kama'' division)
  • 24th Waffen Gebirgs Division of the SS (''Karstjäger'')
  • 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ''Hunyadi'' (1st Hungarian)
  • 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ''Hungaria'' (2nd Hungarian)
  • 27th SS Freiwilligen Grenadier Division ''Langemarck'' (1st Flemish)
  • 28th SS Freiwilligen Grenadier Division ''Wallonien''
  • 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Russian)
  • 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian) (formed after the disbanding of the 29th "1st Russian" division)
  • 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian)
  • 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarusian)
  • 31st SS Freiwilligen Grenadier Division, variously reported as being named ''Böhmen-Mähren'' (Bohemia-Moravia) (this division is not SS Kampfgruppe Division Böhmen-Mähren, this was a separate unit formed from training units in the protectorate after the ''Batschka'' Division) or ''Batschka''
  • 32nd SS Freiwilligen Grenadier Division ''30 Januar''
  • 33rd Waffen Cavalry Division of the SS (3rd Hungarian)
  • 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS "Charlemagne" (1st French)
  • 34th SS Freiwilligen Grenadier Division ''Landstorm Nederland''
  • 35th SS-Police Grenadier Division
  • 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ''Dirlewanger''
  • 37th SS Freiwilligen Cavalry Division ''Lützow''
  • 38th SS Grenadier Division ''Nibelungen''

Also:

  • SS-Oberabschnitt Böhmen-Mähren (see above ↑ note)
  • Panzer Division Kempf, a temporary unit of mixed Heer and Waffen-SS components
  • 1st Cossack Cavalry Division
  • 26th SS Panzer Division (brigade size only, division title used as deception)
  • 27th SS Panzer Division (brigade size only, division title used as deception)

Waffen-SS brigades

Waffen-SS foreign legions

Other Waffen-SS units

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  • 1 Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
  • 2 Das Reich
  • 3 Totenkopf
  • 5 Wiking
  • 9 Hohenstaufen
  • 10 Frundsberg
  • 12 Hitlerjugend
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  • 11 Nordland
  • 16 Reichsführer-SS
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  • 18 Horst Wessel
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  • 7 Prinz Eugen
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  • 21 Skanderbeg (1 Albanian)
  • 23 Kama (2 Croatian)
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  • 37 Lützow
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