Hohenstaufen destroyed 80 Soviet T-34 and IS tanks. On 1 May, the greatly depleted division was moved west to the Steyr–Amstetten area. On 8 May 1945, Hohenstaufen surrendered to the Americans. Commanders Organisation Structure of the division: Headquarters: Berlin-Lichterfelde 9th Panzer Regiment 19th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 20th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 9th SS Panzer Artillery Regiment 9th SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 9th SS Panzer Tank Destroyer Battalion 9th SS Panzer Assault Gun Battalion 9th SS Panzer Engineer Battalion 9th SS Panzer Signal Battalion 9th SS Panzer Anti-Aircraft Battalion 9th SS Panzer Rocket Launcher Battalion 9th SS Panzer Divisional Supply Group War crimes Heinz Hagendorf, a medical NCO, was prosecuted at the Dachau trials for firing shots at American soldiers from an ambulance marked with a Red Cross emblem in Belgium on 15 January 1945. On August 1946, Hagendorf was found guilty and sentenced to six months in prison. The verdict and sentence were upheld on appeal. In 1946, Markus Lienhart, a lieutenant, was prosecuted for the murders of three American airmen in Straßgang, Austria in March 1945. After their planes were shot down, the airmen had surrendered. An SS officer, Wilhelm Schweitzer, arrived and ordered one of police officers escorting the airmen to kill them. After the officer refused, Markus arrived and personally shot two of the airmen. The other airman was assaulted by Markus's father, Franz Lienhart. However, the attack was interrupted by an air raid. Afterwards, the airman was handed over to the SS and shot by unknown men. Markus was found guilty of shooting the two airmen and sentenced to death. Franz, who was also prosecuted, was found guilty of assaulting the third airman and sentenced to 10 years in prison with hard labour. Markus was hanged in Salzburg on 26 October 1946. Due to crippling injuries that he suffered from an accident while in custody, Franz's sentence was reduced to three years. He died in 1957. Schweitzer was put on trial in 1948, found guilty of war crimes, and sentenced to death. However, in light of the controversy surrounding the Malmedy massacre trial, and that Markus Lienhart appeared to have shot two of the airmen entirely of his own volition, Schweitzer's sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was released in the 1950s, and died in 1993. See also List of Waffen-SS units SS Panzer Division order of battle References Notes Citations Bibliography Paras: An Illustrated