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Danish civilians welcome the Free Corps Danmark, a unit of the Waffen SS, upon its return from the Eastern Front in August 1942.

The Free Corps was subsequently transitioned to become 25. Motorized Regiment. About 8,000 Danish volunteers fought under the banner of the Free Corps and 25. Motorized Regiment.

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Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany, 1938

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Wehrmacht troops fighting against Communism in Russia during Operation Barbarossa.

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Another photo of the heroic Waffen-SS Totenkopf troops, believed to be taken during the Kursk offensive.

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Sometime in the Autumn 1942, a National Socialist soldier hangs a Swastika flag from a building in downtown Stalingrad. (NARA)

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Adolf Hitler salutes troops of the Condor Legion who fought alongside Spanish Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, during a rally upon their return to Germany, 1939

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Volkswagen Works cornerstone ceremony, near Wolfsburg, 1938

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National Socialist warriors raising the swastika flag over the Acropolis, Athens, 1941.

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Adolf Hitler at the swearing-in of SS standard bearers at the Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg

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Volkswagen Works cornerstone ceremony, near Wolfsburg, 1938

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League of German Girls dancing during the 1938 Reich Party Congress.

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1937 Reich Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany.

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Crowds cheering Hitler's campaign to unite Austria and Germany, 1938.

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Honouring the Sixteen Martyrs at the Temple of Honour

The 16 fallen were regarded as the first blood martyrs of the NSDAP. The swastika flag they carried, which in the course of events had been stained with blood, came to be known as the Blood Flag and was brought out for the swearing-in of new recruits in front of the Feldherrnhalle.