The 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS was a motorized division of the German Waffen-SS that was active from 1943 to 1945 during World War II. The division was raised from volksdeutsche recruits, and the division took part in the occupation of Hungary, while a kampfgruppe fought at the Battle of Anzio in Italy in 1944. The entire division was later sent to Italy, and the division took part in atrocities; they killed 560 civilians at Santa'Anna di Stazzema on 12 August 1944, 159 at San Terenzo Monti on 17 August, and 173 at Vinca on 24 August. The division surrendered to the British Army at Klagenfurt, Austria at the end of the war.