The division was moved to Pomerania, then fought south east of Berlin in the Lusatian area until the end of the war.

After two weeks of fighting in August against the British during Operation Bluecoat and the Americans at Domfront the division was like many other units encircled at Falaise.

The division suffered heavy casualties and retreated into Belgium before being sent to be reconstituted near Arnhem, where it soon fought the Allied airborne troops during Operation Market Garden at Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, when together with the 9th SS Panzer division it constituted the II SS Panzer Corps.

[4] The division however suffered heavy losses in the ensuing counter offensive against the Nijmegen salient in early October.

[5] German writer and Nobel laureate Günter Grass was trained as a tank crewman with the SS division at the age of 17 in November 1944.