The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (German for "Adolf Hitler’s Bodyguard Regiment") was a unit of the SS. It was a Waffen SS security and combat formation which saw action on both the Eastern and Western fronts during World War II.

As its name suggested, the Leibstandarte started life in the early days of the NSDAP as Hitler’s personal, elite bodyguard. As the Waffen SS increased in size throughout the 1930s and into the war years, so the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler evolved into a full-sized panzer division, a detachment of which was always close to Hitler. It went from being guards or "asphalt soldiers" to being one of the most famous military units in the history of modern warfare.