Ferdinand Porsche reached the rank of "SS-Oberführer". During the war, Porsche was further decorated with the SS-Ehrenring and awarded the War Merit Cross. As the war progressed his proposed solutions to new developments became more complex and Ferdinand Porsche gained a reputation in certain circles as a "mad scientist" especially with Albert Speer (mainly due to his new found affinity for "pointy" designs). A new city, "Stadt des KdF-Wagens" was founded near Fallersleben for the Volkswagen factory, but wartime production concentrated almost exclusively on the military Kübelwagen and Schwimmwagen variants. Mass production of the car, which later became known as the Beetle,
3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf structure of this SS formation was as follows: 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