>>1005177>>1005187The british were so impressed by them that they hired several of them as mercenaries.
For example during the Peninsula War:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_WarAfter that the certain british elite units and later also american ones adopted the skull as symbol like for the Queens Guard back then. That all came from the german elite units who during the Peninsula War impressed Buckingham Palace so much that they adopted it.
The British and Americans called them
>Black Brunswickers>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_BrunswickersThat wikipedia article is very well written for being wikipedia, i recommend
>pic related: A press photo showing a member of the 3. SS-Division "Totenkopf" handing over an artsy battle drum with the Totenkopf which reads:>"To the comrades from the Wartheland - The 3. SS-Division "Totenkopf" 