neo-Paganistic and possibly neo-Gnostic rites. The SS had twelve main departments (SS-Hauptämter) with twelve leaders. The number twelve plays a major...

organizationally subordinate to the SS-Hauptämter (SS Main Offices), and thus to the Waffen SS, the active General SS would only consist of about 48,000 members...

Militant League for German Culture and the staff music corps of the SS-Hauptämter. In 1943, he also took part in a Zwickau memorial concert for the "Gefallenen...

ideological correctness." The KdF consisted of the following five main offices (Hauptämter), all subordinated directly to Hitler: Hauptamt I: Privatkanzlei (Personal...