Dragon 1615 German Soldier of Cavalry 8Th SS Division „Florian Geyer”

The 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" was formed in the summer of 1942 on the basis of cavalry regiments that were part of the SS and had experience in suppressing guerrilla operations from 1939-1941. The division was largely composed of Germans from Banat and Transylvania and was used primarily for anti-insurgency and pacification activities in Poland and the USSR. She was also responsible for numerous pogroms committed against the Jewish population. In the years 1941-1943, the unit operated on the Eastern Front, with stations in Rżewo and Orle. At the end of 1943, it was sent to Hungary, where it was largely dismembered. Its individual units operated in Croatia, Poland and Hungary. Since November, as a unitary unit, it fights near Budapest, where it suffers huge losses and is actually destroyed until February 1945.