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    Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (28 May 1892 – 21 April 1966) was a German politician and a general in the Schutzstaffel (SS) during the Nazi era. He joined the...
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    1st SS-Standarte. By 1933 this unit was placed under the command of Sepp Dietrich, who selected 117 men to form the SS-Stabswache Berlin on 17 March 1933...
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    Group Eberbach. After a brief period under the Waffen-SS commander Sepp Dietrich, command of the army passed to Hasso von Manteuffel. The army saw heavy...
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  • and SS-Sonderkommando Berlin. The LSSAH, under the command of Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, continued to serve exclusively as a personal protection unit for Hitler...
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    Franz Xaver Schwarz, 20 April 1942 (... der Allgemeinen SS) Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, 20 April 1942 (... und Panzer-Generaloberst der Waffen-SS) Kurt Daluege...
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    Darré and Walter Buch. After the Night of the Long Knives in July 1934, Sepp Dietrich was promoted to the rank. On 9 September 1934, so as to prevent a power...
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    back to the selection of a group of 120 SS men on 17 March 1933 by Sepp Dietrich to form the Sonderkommando Berlin. By November 1933 the formation had...
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    1944. The highest-ranking defendant was the former Waffen-SS general Sepp Dietrich. The Malmedy massacre (17 December 1944) was a series of war crimes...
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  • of Strasbourg Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966), German Waffen-SS general Tyler Dietrich (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey coach Wilhelm Dietrich (1911–1944), German...
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    was the highest-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS alongside Sepp Dietrich. Unlike Dietrich, Hausser was a trained staff officer before joining the SS....
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    Panzer Regiment) who committed the war crimes; Sepp Dietrich (Cmdr. 6th SS Panzer Army); Fritz Krämer (Dietrich's chief of staff); and Hermann Prieß (Cmdr....
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    the SS-Leibstandarte. Although the unit was nominally under Himmler, Sepp Dietrich was the real commander and handled its day-to-day administration. The...
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    Jan. 1945) was that the 6th SS Panzer Army, commanded by SS General Sepp Dietrich, was to penetrate and break through the Allied front between the towns...
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    commanded by Sepp Dietrich. Kraemer was admitted into the SS on 1 August 1944. During the battles in Normandy, Krämer acted as Dietrich’s deputy, and eventually...
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  • politician Sepp De Roover (born 1984), Belgian footballer Josef Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966), World War II Oberst-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS Sepp Ferstl...
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    opened a 12 km (a 7.5-mile) gap in the front line near Caumont-l'Éventé. Sepp Dietrich, commander of 1st SS Panzer Corps, ordered Heavy SS-Panzer Battalion...
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    was given to the 6th Panzer Army, commanded by SS Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich. It included the most experienced formation of the Waffen-SS: the 1st...
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  • assassinate SS General Sepp Dietrich, played by Wolf Kahler. In September 1944, in German occupied France, Waffen-SS General Dietrich plots with other high-ranking...
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    Buch Karl-Heinz Bürger Kurt Daluege Eduard Dietl Sepp Dietrich Franz Xaver Dorsch Anton Drexler Dietrich Eckart Hermann Esser Karl Fiehler Josef Fitzthum...
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    arrived in Poltava on 3 December, where he found both Reichenau and Sepp Dietrich firm in defending the correctness of Rundstedt's actions. Sodenstern...
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    Sepp Dietrich who on 4 November 1933, declared the unit an independent formation and, although a part of the SS, answerable to Hitler alone. Dietrich...
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  • Bittrich Gudrun Burwitz née Himmler Friedhelm Busse Günter Deckert Sepp Dietrich Frank Franz Gerhard Frey Herbert Gille Ursula Haverbeck Wolf Rüdiger...
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    the invasion of Poland (1939), assigned as LSSAH Chief of Staff to Sepp Dietrich. From January 1940 to October 1941 he was commander of the Regiment...
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    Sepp Dietrich) and a villa taken from Jews. Lucas, Matthews and Remy though describe the contemptuous and angry reaction of Rommel towards Dietrich's...
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    Dassler, Levi Strauss, Ed Meier Military: Claus von Stauffenberg Nazis: Sepp Dietrich, Karl Fiehler, Karl Gebhardt, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Alfred...
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  • where March works. The National Monument in Vitkov was used as the Sepp Dietrich SS Academy. The rear façade of the headquarters of Motokov, the Czech...
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  • generals: Reinhard Heydrich, Oswald Pohl, Odilo Globocnik, Gottlob Berger, Sepp Dietrich, Werner Lorenz, Karl Wolff, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Otto Rasch;...
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    Archives. The award was unlawfully presented by SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich. The date is taken from the announcement made by the 6. SS-Panzerarmee...
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    their unsuspecting victims. Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler commander Sepp Dietrich received orders from Hitler to form an "execution squad" and go to Stadelheim...
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    prison at Landsberg included: Gottlob Berger Paul Blobel Karl Brandt Sepp Dietrich Hellmuth Felmy Otto Hofmann Karl-Adolf Hollidt Hermann Hoth Waldemar...
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