The group of 200 volunteers were from wealthy families and their horses were supplied from the King's Stables. In 1792, a regiment of Hussards de la Mort (Death Hussars) was formed during the French Revolution by the French National Assembly and were organized and named by Kellerman.The emblem contains an image of a death's head, and the words 'Or Glory', chosen in commemoration of Wolfe. The British Army's Royal Lancers continue to use the skull and crossbones in their emblem, inherited from its use by the 17th Lancers, a unit raised in 1759 following General Wolfe's death in Quebec.Armenian fedayis, during the First World War against the Ottoman Empire, used a skull with two bolt rifles under the words "revenge revenge" in their flags.It was used as the emblem on the uniforms of Greek revolutionaries of Alexander Ypsilantis' Sacred Band (1821) during the Wallachian uprising of 1821.The uniform of the Spanish Army's Lusitania Dragoon Regiment during part of the 18th century included three skull and crossbones in the cuffs, and in 1902 the skull and crossbones insignia was authorized again to replace the regiment number on the sides of the collar.A skull and crossbones has often been a symbol of pirates, especially in the form of the Jolly Roger, but usually having the crossbones below the skull's lower mandibile (if present) rather than behind it, as used by pirate Samuel Bellamy in one example.The 3rd SS Panzer Division also had skull patches on their uniform collars instead of the SS sieg rune. īoth the 3rd SS Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS, and the World War II era Luftwaffe's 54th Bomber Wing Kampfgeschwader 54 were given the unit name " Totenkopf", and used a strikingly similar-looking graphic skull-crossbones insignia as the SS units of the same name. The Totenkopf was also used as the unit insignia of the Panzer forces of the German Heer (Army), and also by the Panzer units of the Luftwaffe, including those of the elite Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring. The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put your self at stake for the life of the whole community. According to a writing by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the Totenkopf had the following meaning: This unit grew into the Schutzstaffel (SS), which continued to use the Totenkopf as insignia throughout its history.
In the early days of the Nazi Party, Julius Schreck, the leader of the Stabswache ( Adolf Hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the Totenkopf as the unit's insignia. In 1933, it was in use by the regimental staff and the 1st, 5th, and 11th squadrons of the Reichswehr 's 5th Cavalry Regiment as a continuation of a tradition from the Kaiserreich. The Totenkopf was used in Germany throughout the interwar period, most prominently by the Freikorps. The symbol continues to be used by modern navies.Ī Garford-Putilov Armoured Car used by the Freikorps in 1919, with a Totenkopf painted on the side. In early modern sea warfare, buccaneers used the totenkopf as a pirate flag: a skull or other skeletal parts as a death threat and as a demand to hand over a ship. In English, the term Totenkopf is commonly associated with 19th- and 20th-century German military use, particularly in Nazi Germany. It is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy or toxicity. In some cases, other human skeletal parts may be added to the depiction of the head skeleton especially often includes two crossed long-bones ( femurs) depicted below or behind the skull. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull, it's a figurative, graphic or sculptural symbol common in Western culture, consisting of the representation of a human skull usually frontal, more rarely in profile with or without the mandible.
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August von Mackensen, German field marshal in hussar full dress prior to 1914, with the Totenkopf on his fur busby
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