The patch featuring an SS Totenkopf — also referred to as “Death’s Head” — on a palm tree similar to a patch used by Nazi Germany’s AfrikaKorps, was posted to the Alabama-based 20th Sp ...

The 20th Special Forces Group posted a photo to its Instagram page appearing to show a member sporting a patch bearing a Totenkopf, a symbol adopted by Hitler for his elite SS soldiers.

The insignia was also the symbol of the 3rd SS "Totenkopf" Panzer Division, responsible for several war crimes. This included the 1940 Le Paradis Massacre, where 97 British soldiers from the ...

Eleven patches from the 3rd SS division Totenkopf, which shot 97 men of the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1940, had been valued at £300 but sold for £550. The sale had been criticised by former members of ...

The existence of SS reunions was confirmed by Werner Volkner, a former corporal with the Totenkopf, or Death's Head division of the SS, part of which guarded the concentration camps. Mr Volkner ...