Ferdinand Porsche Nazi Party and allegedly the SS. He was a recipient of the German National Prize for Art and Science, the SS-Ehrenring and the War Merit Cross, and was called the "Great German Engineer" by Nazi officials. Porsche was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1996 and won the Car Engineer of the Century award in 1999. Ferdinand Porsche was born to ethnic German parents in Liberec (), northern Bohemia, part of the Austrian Empire at that time, and today part of the Czech Republic. Ferdinand was his parents' third child. His father, Anton Porsche, was a master
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