panzer division

noun

1. an armored division of the German army, especially in World War II, consisting chiefly of tanks and organized for making rapid attacks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of panzer division¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

He expected a German Panzer division.

From BBC

They include Ken Hay, 97, who joined up aged 17 and "stormed the beaches of Normandy" in 1944 as a private in the Essex Regiment, only to be captured a few days later by the German 12th SS Panzer Division, while behind enemy lines.

From BBC

In his memories, Oradour lived on as the place it had been before June 10, 1944, when German troops of the Second Waffen-SS Panzer Division entered the village and killed 642 men, women and children in one of the worst civilian massacres in Western Europe during World War II.

From Washington Post

Troops from Das Reich, as the elite Panzer division was known, surrounded the town and gathered the villagers in the square.

From Washington Post

Robert Hébras, who by being shielded under dead bodies survived the infamous massacre of June 1944 in which members of an SS Panzer division killed almost everyone in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in west central France, died on Feb. 11 in a hospital in Saint-Junien, not far from Oradour.

From New York Times