Car Engineer of the Century Car Engineer of the Century The Car Engineer of the Century was an international award given to the most influential car engineer of the twentieth century. The election process was overseen by the Global Automotive Elections Foundation. The winner, Ferdinand Porsche, was announced at an awards gala on December 18, 1999 in Las Vegas. The process for deciding the "Car Engineer of the Century" started with the list of candidates below. The next step was for a jury of 132 professional automotive journalists, from 33 different countries, under the presidency of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, to reduce the list to
3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf The 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" () was one of 38 divisions of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. Its name, "Totenkopf", means "death's head" in German, and it is thus sometimes referred to as the Death's Head Division. Prior to achieving division status, the formation was known as "Kampfgruppe" (battlegroup) "Eicke". Most of the division's initial personnel belonged to the "SS-Totenkopfverbände" (concentration camp guards), and others were members of German militias that had committed war crimes in Poland. The SS Division "Totenkopf" was formed in October 1939. The "Totenkopf" Division had