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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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
'Protection Squadron'; SS; also stylised with Armanen runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi...
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Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the SA, to the rank of an independent organisation". Hitler also was considered SS Member No...
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division of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior...
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He ordered Himmler's arrest and had SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein (Himmler's SS representative at Hitler's headquarters) shot for desertion. By this...
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approved the formation of the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), a special service troop under Hitler's overall command. The SS-VT had to depend on the German...
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Heinrich Himmler (category Reichsführer-SS)
SS, a small paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party that served as a bodyguard unit for Adolf Hitler. Subsequently, Himmler rose steadily through the SS's...
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The Hitler Youth (German: Hitlerjugend [ˈhɪtlɐˌjuːɡn̩t] , often abbreviated as HJ, [haːˈjɔt] ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany...
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Night of the Long Knives (category Adolf Hitler)
Putsch. The primary instruments of Hitler's action, which carried out most of the killings, were the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary force under Himmler...
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later years of the war after the Waffen-SS opened up membership to ethnic Germans and non-Germans. Adolf Hitler in 1925 ordered Julius Schreck to organise...
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eight-man SS squad formed from a twelve-man security squad (known as the SS-Begleitkommando) tasked with protecting the life of Adolf Hitler during the...
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combat troops for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler decreed that the SS-VT was neither a part of the Ordnungspolizei (order police) nor...
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Paula Hitler, also known as Paula Wolff and Paula Hitler-Wolff, (21 January 1896 – 1 June 1960) was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child...
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Albert Speer (redirect from Hitler architect)
Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison...
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Religious aspects of Nazism (redirect from Occult Bureau of the SS)
Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS. Martin Secker & Warburg. (in English) Eric Kurlander. Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the...
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Government of Nazi Germany (redirect from Hitler's government)
created the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS). On 30 January 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor of...
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great fervour that the Reichswehr stood behind Hitler. On 30 June 1934, Hitler and a large group of SS and regular police flew to Munich and arrived between...
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Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, employed a personal staff, which represented different branches and offices throughout his political...
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the Reich Youth Leadership. Leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 to 1945. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski – An SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei...
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Downfall (2004 film) (redirect from Hitler parody video)
liaison officer at Hitler's headquarters, attempts to persuade Hitler to flee, but Hitler insists that he will win or die in Berlin. SS doctor Obersturmbannführer...
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Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German...
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Sturmabteilung (category Adolf Hitler)
long after Hitler's release from prison, he ordered the creation of another bodyguard unit in 1925 that ultimately became the Schutzstaffel (SS). During...
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1944. The II SS Panzer Corps was formed to take command of SS Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler", SS Division "Das Reich", and SS Division "Totenkopf"[citation...
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Religion in Nazi Germany (redirect from Hitler and the Church)
Anti-Church radicals included Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann, the propagandist Alfred Rosenberg, and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Some Nazis...
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the SA, the SS was made an independent branch of the Nazi Party, responsible only to Hitler. From that point on, the title of Reichsführer-SS became an...
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celebrate Hitler's birthday. The Parteiadler of the Nazi Party (1933–1945) SS death's head insignia Horizontally aligned Wolfsangel, used by the 2nd SS Panzer...
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Ahnenerbe (redirect from SS Ahnenerbe)
Heinrich Himmler in July 1935 as an SS appendage devoted to the task of promoting the racial doctrines espoused by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The Ahnenerbe...
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Eva Braun (redirect from Eva Hitler)
within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until mid-1944, when her sister Gretl married Hermann Fegelein, the SS liaison...
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Nazi Party (redirect from Hitler Party)
The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf: Die Geschichte der SS). London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0141390123. Ingrao...
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Sepp Dietrich (category Chauffeurs of Adolf Hitler)
renamed Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) on 13 April 1934. As one of Hitler's intimates, Dietrich was often able to disregard his SS superior, Heinrich...
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