7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen

7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen
7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen"
Insignia of 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen (Odal rune)
Active	1942–45
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Waffen-SS
Type	Gebirgsjäger
Role	Counter-insurgency Mountain warfare
Size	Division
Nickname(s)	Prinz Eugen
Motto(s)	Vorwärts, Prinz Eugen! (Forwards, Prinz Eugen!)
Engagements	World War II Operation Kopaonik Case White Case Black Operation Kugelblitz Operation Rösselsprung
Commanders
Notable commanders	Artur Phleps Karl von Oberkamp Otto Kumm August Schmidhuber

The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" (7. SS-Freiwilligen Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen"),^[1] initially named the SS-Volunteer Division Prinz Eugen (SS-Freiwilligen-Division "Prinz Eugen"), was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht during World War II. At the post-war Nuremberg trials, the Waffen-SS was declared to be a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity. From 1942 to 1945, the division fought a counter-insurgency campaign against communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance forces in occupied Yugoslavia. It was formed in 1941 from both Reich Germans and Volksdeutsche – ethnic German volunteers and conscripts from the Banat, Independent State of Croatia, Hungary and Romania. The division surrendered on 11 May 1945 to Yugoslav Partisan forces, with thousands of stragglers surrendering by the 15th near the Austrian border.