Bulgaria was a 4,191 GRT cargo ship that was built as Empire Flamborough in 1945 by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, County Durham, United Kingdom...
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of steamships were named Bulgaria, including: SS Bulgaria (1898), a 10,237 GRT liner in service 1898–1917 SS Bulgaria (1945), a 4,191 GRT cargo ship in...
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Regiment of the SS (1st Bulgarian) (German: Waffen-Grenadier Regiment der SS (Bulgarisches Nr. 1)) was formed in World War II when Bulgaria left the Axis...
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Cluj-Napoca, Romania Bulgaria (ship), a Russian ship that sank in the Volga SS Bulgaria (1898), a liner in service 1898–1917 SS Bulgaria (1945), a cargo ship...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
time of the Nazi Party's rise to power until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, mass surveillance, and state terrorism...
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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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Theodor Dannecker (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
Theodor Dannecker (27 March 1913 – 10 December 1945) was a German SS-captain (Hauptsturmführer), a key aide to Adolf Eichmann in the deportation of Jews...
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Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of...
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Waffen-SS was declared to be a criminal organisation due to its major involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity. From 1942 to 1945, the division...
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German-occupied Europe and unoccupied lands. It was disbanded in May 1945. The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions during World War II...
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The Tsardom of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Царство България, romanized: Tsarstvo Bǎlgariya), also known as the Third Bulgarian Tsardom (Bulgarian: Трето Българско...
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1925 and 1945, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members...
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division was transferred to the Waffen SS, becoming part of the XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps, established in February 1945. At the end of the war, the unit ceased...
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Aleksandar Tsankov and while it was able to muster a 600-strong Bulgarian SS regiment of Bulgarian anti-communist volunteers already in Germany under a German...
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Waffen-SS recruited significant numbers of non-Germans, both as volunteers and conscripts. Of a peak strength of 950,000 in 1944, the Waffen-SS consisted...
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of Waffen-SS units. I SS Panzer Corps II SS Panzer Corps III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps IV SS Panzer Corps (formerly VII SS Panzer Corps) V SS Mountain...
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2nd Cossack Cavalry Division (category Cavalry divisions of the Waffen-SS)
Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS during World War II. The division existed from November 1944 until May 1945. It was one of two Waffen-SS Cossack divisions, along...
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Heinrich Himmler (category Reichsführer-SS)
October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the...
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the Bulgarian government-in-exile under Tsankov had no international recognition. On 13 November 1944, the government worked with the Waffen-SS to create...
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The Ardennes, 1944-1945: Hitler's Winter Offensive. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-1-61200-277-4. Számvéber, Norbert (2018). Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy:...
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Guard, which was to be further integrated into the SS shortly. Jozef Tiso (26 October 1939 – 4 April 1945) Jozef Tiso (14 March 1939 – 26 October 1939) Vojtech...
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13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi...
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from 1942 to 1945. Kjeld Stub Irgens Ragnar Skancke Sverre Riisnæs Jonas Lie, Minister of Police and SS-Standartenführer of the Germanic-SS Norway. Karl...
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Milwaukee Sentinel. February 16, 1945. Retrieved May 22, 2012.[permanent dead link] "SS General von Steuben [+1945]". WreckSite. Retrieved December 6...
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Operation Spring Awakening (category Military operations of World War II involving Bulgaria)
Conference on 7 January, 1945, at which both Hermann Göring and Rundstedt were present, Hitler proposed his intention of pulling the 6th SS Panzer Army to reserve...
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The Holocaust (redirect from Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945))
was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million...
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Kingdom had little interest in Bulgaria. In November 1945, Communist Party leader Georgi Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria after 22 years in exile. He made...
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Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi...
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Karl Hanke (category Reichsführer-SS)
1945) was an official of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) during its rule over Germany who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS)...
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4k SS, 14k Wehr, 7k Aux; Azerbaijan 55k SS, 70k Wehr; Belarus 12k Wehr, 20k Aux; Cossack 200k Wehr; Estonia 20k SS, 50k Wehr, 7k Aux; Georgia 10k SS; 30k...
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