Friedrich Bischoff was a 1,998 GRT cargo ship that was built in 1940 by Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany for German owners. She was...
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Helmut Hermann Wilhelm Bischoff (1 March 1908 – 1 January 1993) was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer, Gestapo officer and Nazi government official. During...
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Friedrich Jeckeln (2 February 1895 – 3 February 1946) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in the...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
main constituent groups were the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and Waffen-SS (Armed SS). The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing the racial policy...
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Sicherheitsdienst (redirect from Sicherheitsdienst Reichsführer-SS)
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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8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" was a German Waffen-SS cavalry division during World War II. It was formed in 1942 from a cadre of the SS Cavalry...
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Einsatzgruppen (redirect from SS-Einsatzgruppe)
a company of Waffen-SS attached to Einsatzgruppe C under Rasch, members of Sonderkommando 4a under SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and some Ukrainian...
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Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
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War I ace Lothar Beutel, SS General Walther Bierkamp, SS General Helmut Bischoff, SS Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Bittrich, SS General Dr. Kurt Blome, Nazi...
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(see also EG-V) Einsatzkommando 1/IV: SS-Sturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Helmut Bischoff Einsatzkommando 2/IV: SS-Sturmbannführer und Regierungsrat Walter...
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Reich Security Main Office (redirect from SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt)
Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), originally led by SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe and later by SS-Oberführer Friedrich Panzinger. This was the Criminal Police, which...
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Paul Blobel (category SS-Standartenführer)
profession from 1924 until 1931, when he joined the Nazi Party, the SA, and the SS (he had joined all of these by 1 December 1931). In 1933 Blobel joined the...
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Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
Julius Eberhard von Zelewski; 1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was a high-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany of Kashubian-Polish origin. During World War II...
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Ordnungspolizei (category Allgemeine SS)
Interior Ministry, but its executive functions rested with the leadership of the SS until the end of World War II. Owing to their green uniforms, Orpo were also...
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list of prominent British residents to be arrested, produced in 1940 by the SS as part of the preparation for the proposed invasion of Britain. After the...
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Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (category SS and Police Leaders)
Kraków in January 1941 to work under Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger. For part of the time during his...
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Ernst Kaltenbrunner (category SS and Police Leaders)
Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. After...
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Otto Ohlendorf (category SS-Gruppenführer)
pronunciation: [ˈɔtoː ˈʔoːləndɔʁf]; 4 February 1907 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. An economist by...
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developed the method. The vans themselves were modified by Walter Rauff, Friedrich Pradel [de] and Harry Wentritt. Matthias Beer calls gas vans "a special...
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Reinhard Heydrich (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
ˈhaɪdʁɪç, - ˈʔɔʏɡn̩ -] ; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust...
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Walter Rauff (category SS-Standartenführer)
Rauff, also Walther Rauff (19 June 1906 – 14 May 1984) was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich...
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before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT). The accused were 24 former SS leaders who, as commanders of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and...
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Rudolf Höss (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the...
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Arthur Nebe (category SS-Gruppenführer)
(German: [ˈaʁtuːɐ̯ ˈneːbə] ; 13 November 1894 – 21 March 1945) was a German SS functionary who held key positions in the security and police apparatus of...
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Nazi concentration camp system administered by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (SS-WVHA) was administratively separate from other forced-labor...
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Rudolf Lange (category SS-Standartenführer)
Rudolf Lange (18 April 1910 – 23 February 1945) was a German SS-Standartenführer and police official during the Nazi era. After the invasion of the Soviet...
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measures at Auschwitz concentration camp. May was involved along with Hans Bischoff in the confiscation of the Schmitz-Wassmann-collection of ants and Phoridae...
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Denmark. Hans Biebow – Chief of Administration of the Łódź Ghetto. Helmut Bischoff – SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of mobile death squad unit, Einsatzkommando...
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award for Friedrich Blond in the German Federal Archives. Scherzer consulted Ernst-Günther Krätschmer's book Die Ritterkreuzträger der Waffen-SS [The Knight's...
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Hermann Franz (redirect from Hermann Friedrich Franz)
Battalions 45, 303, and 314. The regiment was subordinated to Friedrich Jeckeln, the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSS-PF) for Army Group South in Ukraine...
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