Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Hermann Prieß (24 May 1901 – 2 February 1985) was the commander of 3rd SS Division Totenkopf (\"Deaths head\") of the Waffen-SS – the armed paramilitary branch of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS) – following the death of Theodor Eicke in February 1943. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.Prieß was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS on 20 April 1944. On 30 October 1944 he became the commanding officer of the 1st SS-Panzerkorps Leibstandarte and led it during the Battle of the Bulge.After the war, Prieß was convicted of war crimes for his involvement in the Malmedy massacre, and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He was released from the Landsberg Prison in 1954."@en }
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- Hermann_Prieß abstract "Hermann Prieß (24 May 1901 – 2 February 1985) was the commander of 3rd SS Division Totenkopf (\"Deaths head\") of the Waffen-SS – the armed paramilitary branch of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS) – following the death of Theodor Eicke in February 1943. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords (German: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern). The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves and Swords was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.Prieß was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS on 20 April 1944. On 30 October 1944 he became the commanding officer of the 1st SS-Panzerkorps Leibstandarte and led it during the Battle of the Bulge.After the war, Prieß was convicted of war crimes for his involvement in the Malmedy massacre, and was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He was released from the Landsberg Prison in 1954.".