1st SS Panzer Division

The  was a Waffen-SS Panzer division forming part of Nazi Germany's military forces during the Second World War.

During the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the division, under the leadership of SS-Standartenführer Jochen Peiper, captured many US Army soldiers during the initial stages of the Germans' offensive in the Ardennes forest in Belgium.

Major Poetchke, using stories of Allied atrocities against German POWs as justification, rounded up many of the American prisoners at Baugnez crossroads and has his men kill them all, including Red Cross medical personnel.

The Eighth Doctor, whose companion, Sam Jones, was also one of the victims of the massacre, blamed the conduct of the division on the lack of discipline provided by Peiper. (PROSE: Autumn Mist)