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    positions; the rank of SS-Unterscharführer was junior to SS-Scharführer and senior to the rank of SS-Rottenführer. Unterscharführer was the most junior and...
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  • (Director of camp labor) SS-Unterscharführer Heinrich Schoppe (Labor service NCO) Women's camp sub-section SS-Unterscharführer Richard Perschel (Women's...
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    Vogler, SS Hauptsturmführer: 15 years imprisonment Eduard Zerlin, SS Unterscharführer: 12 years imprisonment Oskar Gottchau, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years...
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    Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre (category War crimes of the Waffen-SS)
    1920, former SS-Unterscharführer) Alfred Mathias Concina (b. 1919, former SS-Unterscharführer) Ludwig Göring (or Goring) (b. 1923, former SS-Rottenführer...
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    Scharführer (redirect from SS-Scharführer)
    of SS-Scharführer became known as SS-Unterscharführer with the title of SS-Scharführer becoming equivalent to an SA-Oberscharführer. The rank of SS-Truppführer...
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    Willi Mentz (category SS non-commissioned officers)
    SS-Unterscharführer Willi Bruno Mentz (30 April 1904 – 25 June 1978) was a member of the German SS in World War II and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked...
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  • Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions. Remarks SS-Bewerber (SS-applicant) and SS-Anwärter (SS-aspirant)...
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    arrived at the camp. Led by its director, SS-Hauptscharführer Bernhard Walter, and deputy director, SS-Unterscharführer Ernst Hofmann, the Erkennungsdienst...
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    would be referred to as Waffen-Unterscharführer whereas a regular SS member would be addressed as SS-Unterscharführer. This helped to indicate non-native...
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  • concentration camp, she had a romantic relationship with the Austrian SS-Unterscharführer Franz Wunsch. Her story was covered in the BBC documentary series...
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    Maria Mandl, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. Thirty-seven other SS officers—thirty-three men and four women—who had served...
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    Erwin Lambert (category SS non-commissioned officers)
    Nazi Party member and member of the Schutzstaffel with the rank of SS-Unterscharführer (corporal). He supervised construction of the gas chambers for the...
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  • Obertruppführer renamed Hauptscharführer SS rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer SS rank Scharführer renamed Unterscharführer SS rank Haupttruppführer renamed...
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  • subcamp were SS-Unterscharführer Hermann Kleiss (in September–October 1944), SS-Oberscharführer Johann Mayer (October–November 1944), SS-Hauptscharführer...
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    SS-Unterscharführer Friedrich Gaulstich, and SS-Unterscharführer Fritz Konrad. Those killed in Lager II included SS-Scharführer Josef Wolf and SS-Oberscharführer...
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    Otto Rahn (category SS-Obersturmführer)
    non-commissioned officer and became a full member of the SS in March 1936, attaining the rank of SS-Unterscharführer the following month. In an interview with Rüdiger...
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  • continue playing music in a marching band. At Auschwitz he was an SS-Unterscharführer employed as a driver in the motor pool. Böck reported that he was...
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    Fritz Buntrock (category Waffen-SS personnel)
    March 1909 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi German war criminal and SS-Unterscharführer (the SS equivalent to a corporal) serving at Auschwitz concentration...
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    (SS-Obersturmführer Jürgen Wessel), 212 (SS-Unterscharführer Balthasar Woll), 213 (SS-Hauptscharführer Hans Höflinger) and 214 (SS-Unterscharführer Karl-Heinz...
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  • Oskar Gröning (category Waffen-SS personnel)
    Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities...
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  • Bruno Gesche (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    After Gesche was reduced by nine grades in rank from a SS-Obersturmbannführer to SS-Unterscharführer, Franz Schädle was promoted to be the next commander...
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    October 1964 and concerned eleven members of the SS camp personnel, or about a quarter of the total number of SS employed in the extermination of Jews brought...
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    Hans Koch (August 13, 1912 – July 14, 1955) was an SS-Unterscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz...
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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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    was evacuated on April 11, 1945. Two SS men were left to guard the school: SS Unterscharführer Johann Frahm and SS Oberscharführer Ewald Jauch, and the...
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    Eduard Lorenz (category SS non-commissioned officers)
    Eduard Lorenz (born February 12, 1921) was an SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at...
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  • Gustav Münzberger (category SS non-commissioned officers)
    SS-Unterscharführer Gustav Münzberger (17 August 1903 – 23 March 1977), born in Weißkirchlitz (Sudetenland), was a carpenter and factory worker before...
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  • Roland Puhr (category SS non-commissioned officers)
    Roland Puhr (21 January 1914 – 15 April 1964) was an SS-Unterscharführer who committed numerous atrocities at Sachsenhausen concentration camp during...
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    concentration camp guards. Between September 1941 and September 1942, the German SS and police trained 2,500 Trawniki men known as Hiwi Wachmänner (guards) at...
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    Pery Broad (category SS non-commissioned officers)
    the Schutzstaffel (SS) active at Auschwitz concentration camp from April 1942 to 1945. He reached the rank of SS-Unterscharführer while working as a translator...
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