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
Organisation of a SS Panzer Division Organisation of a SS Panzer Division The SS Panzer Division () was an SS formation during World War II. The table below shows the organisation structure that an "SS Panzer division", aspired to contain. The structure and organisation of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" is equivalent to the table above and served as a standard for all other "SS Panzer Divisions" during World War II. The average complement was approximately 19,000. However, only two out of 7 SS Panzer Divisions contained that strength. In the second half of the war in Europe, in particular close to the end of