101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion (in German
Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101, commonly abbreviated as
s.SS-Pz. Abt. 101) was one of the
Waffen-SS's elite armored units. With the introduction of new
Tiger II - "King Tiger" tanks in late 1944, it was redesignated the
Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 501.