After the relief attempts towards
Cherkassy were 3.SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf and the 1.Panzer-Division attacked towards the city of Korsun, attempting to secure a crossing across the Gniloy-Tilkich river, the division fell back behind the Southern Bug River. Totenkopf immediately began taking up new defensive positions west of Ivanovka in the second week of March 1944. After another two weeks of fierce fighting in the forward defense lines, alongside Panzergrenadier-Division Großdeutschland, the Axis lines again fell back, withdrawing to the Dniester on the Romanian border near Iași. Top image: an SS-Untersturmführer of the Totenkopf and men of the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 228 at rest next to a Soviet T-34 wreck in Bessarabia in April 1944. The Totenkopf men all wearing Platanenmuster
camouflage smocks. Other pictures from the same occasion, shows the unidentified SS-Untersturmführer reading a telegram with an Heer Oberleutnant of the StuG.Brigade 228. Wehrmacht soldiers regarded the Waffen-SS men as thoroughly reliable comrades. Respect born of shared frontline experiences. Photo by KB Vorpahl. Credit: Karl Mensburg. Commons: Bundesarchiv. Bottom image: Oberleutnant Dr. Bold of the Großdeutschland during the Battles of Târgu Frumos in Romania in April 1944. Note the cuff titles and the shoulder strap monogram. Visible behind Dr. Bold is the division's tactical sign: a white
Stalhelm in outline. Photo by KB Theodor Scheerer. Commons: Bundesarchiv.
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