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Kurt Meyer, better known by his nickname "Panzermeyer," was one of the Waffen-SS's youngest and most fanatical commanders. Rising through the ranks of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler before leading the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend in Normandy, he became notorious not only for his battlefield leadership but also for war crimes committed under his command.
Discover the story of Meyer's rise through the SS, his role in the invasions of Poland, Greece, and the Soviet Union, the massacres of civilians in Ukraine, and the murder of Canadian prisoners of war (POWs) following D-Day. Learn how his trial became one of the first to establish the principle of command responsibility, why his death sentence was commuted, and how he later became a leading advocate for rehabilitating the Waffen-SS in postwar Germany.
Kurt Meyer's life remains one of the clearest examples of how fanaticism, war crimes, and historical revisionism continued long after the Second World War had ended.

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00:00Meyer bragged about burning down a village near Kharkov in Soviet Ukraine and murdering
00:06all its inhabitants.
00:08In February 1943, Kurt Meyer's reconnaissance battalion advanced into the Ukrainian villages
00:14of Yefremovka and Semyonovka during the Third Battle of Kharkov.
00:20His troops fought Soviet forces and reportedly took no prisoners, killing around 1,500 Red
00:27Army soldiers who had surrendered.
00:30After the fighting, Meyer's men surrounded the villages, accusing the civilians of having
00:35resisted.
00:36A surviving SS eyewitness later recalled hearing the order that, on Meyer's command, the settlements
00:43were to be leveled to the ground.
00:45What followed was a massacre carried out with ruthless brutality.
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