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Nevertheless , at 131500 May 1940 the 1st Panzer Division led the attack on Sedan . I can say only that the behaviour of the SS Panzer Division is the responsibility of its commander . Inside was a scratch garrison recruited from the 39th Fuesilier Regiment ( 26th Volks Grenadier Division ) , the 3d Panzer Grenadier , and Remer 's brigade . These armed resistance groups were able to slow down the attempt by the SS Panzer Division to get to the Normandy beaches . On the outbreak of the Second World War Balck was placed in charge of the Rifle Regiment in the 1st Panzer Division . Remer instantly sent a radio SOS to the commander of the 3d Panzer Grenadier , then set out to find his tank group . In the early evening Bayerlein himself led the advance guard of the Panzer Lehr ( four companies of the 902d Panzer Grenadier Regiment and some fifteen tanks ) into Niederwampach . The Soviet 37th army quickly counterattacked and punched through the overextended and winter-weary German lines to the north , forcing the 1st Panzer Army out . The tanks retired to the Marvie position as dark came on , and late in the evening Panzer Lehr occupied Wardin . Eventually Dietrich prevailed-or some compromise was reached-for late on 18 December armored elements of the 12th SS Panzer Division began to withdraw from the twin villages , while the 3d Panzer Grenadier Division , which had been scheduled for the fight at Monschau , marched west from reserve to take over the battle with the 2d Division . This foray came from the Baraque de Fraiture crossroads sector , where the 2d SS Panzer Division finally had broken through , and was made by elements of the 3d Panzer Grenadier Regiment moving with much difficulty along the narrow forest trails south of Odeigne . The knowledge that was necessary to bind the SS organization was the knowledge that a member of the Death 's Head Battalion had of atrocities committed in the concentration camps , that a member of the anti-partisan bands had of the killings , kidnappings and plunder that went on behind the fighting lines , that a member of the SS Panzer Divisions had of the killings of prisoners of war , or that a member of the SS Medical Corps had of the savage experiments on human beings . During two days fighting alone , 10th-11th July 1944 , the 43rd ( Wessex ) Division suffered more than 2,000 casualties , and the slopes of the Hill were ablaze with the wrecks of British tanks ( largely Churchills ) knocked out by the SS Panzer units in occupation of the high ground .