SS Black Osprey was a cargo ship for the American Diamond Lines and the British Cairn Line. She was formerly known as SS West Arrow when she was launched...
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Esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rune)
The Allgemeine-SS. Osprey Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-85532-358-2. Yenne, Bill (2010). Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler's Black Knights and the...
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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rank)
different uniforms existed for the SS over time, the all-black SS uniform adopted in 1932 is the most well known. The black–white–red colour scheme was characteristic...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
Chris (2009). The SS: 1923–1945. London: Amber Books. ISBN 978-1-906626-49-5. McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-78200-088-4...
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of Waffen-SS divisions List of SS personnel The Waffen-SS (4): 24. to 38. Divisions, & Volunteer Legions, Gordon Williamson, p. 19, Osprey Publishing...
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they were placed above ..."). 3rd SS Division Totenkopf Fascist symbolism Human skull symbolism Kampfgeschwader 54 Black Brunswickers Jolly Roger Kuperjanov...
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SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, abbreviated as LSSAH (German: 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
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Hugo Boss (businessman) (category Förderndes Mitglied der SS)
from the original on 29 July 2010. McNab, Chris. Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45, Osprey 2013, p 90. "Hugo Boss apology for Nazi past as book is published"...
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Karl Diebitsch (category SS-Oberführer)
Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to draft the well-known all-black SS uniform. Also with his business partner, industrialist Franz Nagy, Diebitsch...
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SS ([ˌalɡəˈmaɪ̯nə ˈɛs ˈɛs]; "General SS") was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed by the SS Main...
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The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. 'Armed SS') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations...
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1923". Retrieved 1 December 2014. Brian L Davis, Flags of the Third Reich, Osprey Publishing, 2000, p. 100. Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage, An Illustrated Dictionary...
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commissioned as an SS-Gruppenführer. The division was equipped largely with captured Czech materiel and underwent military training in the Black Forest combined...
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Dirlewanger Brigade (redirect from 36th SS Division)
the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (1944), or the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (German: 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS), or The Black Hunters...
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Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (German: Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a Waffen-SS unit formed in September 1944 from...
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Medium Tanks: 1939–45. Oxford, England: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84908-775-9. Casagrande, Thomas (2003). Die volksdeutsche SS-Division "Prinz Eugen": Die Banater...
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The Osprey class are a series of coastal minehunters designed to find, classify, and destroy moored and bottom naval mines from vital waterways. Their...
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Otto Skorzeny (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved...
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SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT, lit. 'SS Dispositional Troops') was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler...
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pockets were of an angled slash type similar to the black or grey SS service-dress. The second button of an SS Feldbluse was positioned somewhat lower, so that...
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1942 as SS Irish Pine SS West Eldara West Arrow, later called SS Black Osprey torpedoed and sunk in 1941 Schodack, 1919 cargo, later called SS Alcoa Leader...
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Park SS Beaverford SS Bengore Head SS Black Osprey SS Box Hill (see SS Glentworth) SS Britannia (1925) SS British Chivalry SS British Consul SS British...
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Company. ISBN 0-395-41057-6. Williamson, Gordon (1991). Afrikakorps 1941-43. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-130-0. Zitiert nach Walther Hubatsch (Hrsg.): Hitlers...
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Ordnungspolizei (category Allgemeine SS)
ISBN 978-1-4422-1316-6. McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939-45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1782000884. Showalter, Dennis (2005). "Foreword"...
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titles of the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the paramilitary SS organisation of Nazi Germany, reflected the colours of the SS (black and silver) and were...
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SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea...
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Joachim Peiper (category SS-Standartenführer)
Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal. During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, and...
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The 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) was a foreign infantry division of the Waffen-SS that served alongside the Wehrmacht during...
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Ltd. ISBN 978-1907446962. McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78200-088-4. Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas...
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Wehrmacht (section Coexistence with the Waffen-SS)
to check the budget of the SS and inspect the combat readiness of the SS troops. In the event of mobilization, the Waffen-SS field units could be placed...
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