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Default 08-08-2001, 02:32 AM

There were two organizations that had the title 'totenkopf'. One was the 3rd SS Panzer Division (the one in the picture of the PAK), which was just a regular SS Panzer Division under the Waffen SS (the Marine Corps of the Wehrmacht). And the other one was the Totenkopf-verbande, that was under the Allgemine-SS and ran many of the Concentration camps in Poland. They were two compleatly different organizations and run by different sections of the German Government. Unfortunatly for the 3rd SS, the two have somewhat been mixed together in history books and such, giving them a bad reputation just because their Logos and names were similar.

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