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    of Untersturmführer was senior to Hauptscharführer (or Sturmscharführer in the Waffen-SS) and junior to the rank of Obersturmführer. Untersturmführer was...
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  • Josef Kollmer SS-Untersturmführer Otto Wolnek Guard Battalion NCOs SS-Hauptscharführer Adolf Becker SS-Hauptscharführer Matthias Tannhausen SS-Oberscharführer...
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    and entertained the SS officers, was also given/giving tours) Otto Rahn (1937) SS-Untersturmführer Johannes Otto SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich Wicker, killed...
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  • Schutzstaffel Former SS Ranks changed after 1934: SS rank Sturmhauptführer renamed Hauptsturmführer SS rank Sturmführer renamed Untersturmführer SS rank Obertruppführer...
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    stripe centered on a uniform collar patch. The rank was senior to an Untersturmführer (or Sturmführer in the SA) and junior to the rank of Hauptsturmführer...
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    Johann Niemann (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Himmler's visit to Sobibor on 12 February 1943, Niemann was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer. Karl Frenzel, also a commandant at Sobibor, recalled how Niemann...
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    where Hauptscharführer was immediately junior to rank of SS-Untersturmführer. In the Waffen-SS, Hauptscharführer was a rank bestowed upon company and battalion...
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  • Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions. Remarks SS-Bewerber (SS-applicant) and SS-Anwärter (SS-aspirant)...
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    the SS garrisons, had also fled before the arrival of U.S. troops. SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich Wicker (killed after the surrender) was left in charge and...
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    Heinrich Wicker (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Heinrich Wicker (30 June 1921 – 29 April 1945) was a German SS-Untersturmführer. He was the last commandant of the Dachau concentration camp. In the final...
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  • Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany...
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    torture as sanctioned means. During the war Rinnan was appointed SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve, and received the Iron Cross 2nd grade in 1944. After...
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  • Hans Stark (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Hans Stark (14 June 1921 – 29 March 1991) was an SS-Untersturmführer and head of the admissions detail at Auschwitz-II Birkenau of Auschwitz concentration...
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    extermination process. SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann served as the camp's deputy commandant. Day-to-day operations were generally handled by SS-Oberscharfuhrer...
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  • into witch trials led by SS-Untersturmführer Rudolf Levin under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. Himmler organised a team of SS researchers to collect historical...
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  • Feldpolizei. The policy directives came from the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) and after 1940, the SS Führungshauptamt (SS Leadership Main Office). The Kripo was...
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    atrocities on the Eastern Front. SS-Untersturmführer Krämer (captured on the Western Front during his service with the SS Division Hitlerjugend) recounted...
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    Ernst Kaltenbrunner (category SS and Police Leaders)
    post for a year. In July 1940, he was commissioned as an SS-Untersturmführer into the Waffen-SS Reserve. Alongside his many official duties, Kaltenbrunner...
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    the following two SS Lagerführer officers served as the camp commandants, the SS-Untersturmführer Anton Thumann, and SS-Untersturmführer Georg Güßregen....
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    Sturmscharführer (category SS ranks)
    the head SS non-commissioned officer of a company. The rank of Sturmscharführer was also not a prerequisite for promotion to Untersturmführer and was generally...
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  • In the movie Niemann is ranked as SS-Oberscharführer however his real rank should be of an SS-Untersturmführer. SS-Unterscharführer Walter "Ryba" Hochberg...
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  • Willem Sassen (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    2002) was a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the Waffen-SS. He became known around 1960 as "the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann". Willem...
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    Hanns Martin Schleyer (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    movement. During the Nazi era, Schleyer served as an SS officer and reached the rank of SS-Untersturmführer. Schleyer's kidnapping and murder by the Red Army...
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    Martin James Monti (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Sittler's home. Both would later join SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Monti was commissioned with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer, equivalent to his rank in the U...
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    inside the bunker doorway. At around 16:15, Linge ordered SS-Untersturmführer Heinz Krüger and SS-Oberscharführer Werner Schwiedel to roll up the rug in...
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    Kurt Eggers (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    both a member of a propaganda company (Propagandakompanie) and as a Waffen-SS soldier at the rank of Mann in World War II, he was killed while serving in...
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    Josef Mengele (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    for medical service in the Waffen-SS, the combat arm of the SS, where he served with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer ('second lieutenant') in a medical...
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    The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) served to distinguish its Nazi paramilitary ranks between 1925 and 1945 from the ranks of the Wehrmacht...
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    Maria Mandl, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. Thirty-seven other SS officers—thirty-three men and four women—who had served...
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    Amon Göth (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Jewish population of Europe. He was commissioned to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) on 14 July 1941. Göth also received a Dienstleistungszeugnis...
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