This defeat resulted in the "Ärmelstreifen" (Cuff Titles Order) or "armband order", which was issued by Hitler to the commander of the 6th SS Panzer Army, Sepp Dietrich. Hitler claimed that the troops "did not fight as the situation demanded." As a mark of disgrace, Hitler ordered the Waffen-SS units involved to remove their cuff titles (German: "Ärmelstreifen"). Dietrich refused to carry out the order and did not relay the message to the troops. According to Heinz Guderian, most cuff titles had already been removed; he later wrote that the removal of unit cuffs from the "Leibstandarte", "Totenkopf", "Hohenstaufen", and the "Das Reich" Divisions was accomplished for security reasons.