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    SA, Oberscharführer was created as an SS rank at the same time the position was created within the SA. Initially, the rank of SS-Oberscharführer was equal...
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  • house previously occupied by a Jewish family. Several SS soldiers with Oberscharführer Dörfler (Florian Schmidtke) in charge are sent to Elsa's farmhouse...
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  • insignia of the Schutzstaffel senior NCO, e.g. Hauptscharführer or Oberscharführer, seldom Scharführer. However, administratively Rottenführer (2. Gehaltsstufe)...
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    becoming equivalent to an SA-Oberscharführer. The rank of SS-Truppführer was removed from the SS, to be replaced by SS-Oberscharführer and the new rank of SS-Hauptscharführer...
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    Johann Pauls (9 February 1908 – 4 July 1946) was a German SS-Oberscharführer in Stutthof concentration camp. He was executed for war crimes. Pauls was...
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  • Kurt Raab as SS-Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel Eric Caspar as SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Reichleitner Hugo Bower as SS-Oberscharführer Rudolf Beckmann Klaus...
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  • Becker SS-Hauptscharführer Matthias Tannhausen SS-Oberscharführer Emanuel Glumbik SS-Oberscharführer Vinzent Klose Guard Battalion Sentries SS-Unterscharführer...
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    addition of "senior" and "head" designators (ober and haupt): these were Oberscharführer, Obertruppführer, and Sturmhauptführer. The new rank insignia were...
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  • was an Austrian member of the SS with the rank of Staff sergeant (Oberscharführer). Wagner was a deputy commander of Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied...
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    his trial, SS-Oberscharführer Kurt Bolender described the killing operations as follows: Before the Jews undressed, SS-Oberscharführer Hermann Michel...
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    the Einsatzgruppen. The rank of SS-Hauptscharführer was senior to SS-Oberscharführer and junior to SS-Sturmscharführer, except in the General-SS where Hauptscharführer...
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    October 28, 1948 Ewald Foth, SS Oberscharführer: Death, executed: October 28, 1948 Albert Paulitz, SS Oberscharführer: Death, executed: October 28, 1948...
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    SA-Scharführer, but after 1932 was ranked above the new rank of SA-Oberscharführer. The insignia for a basic Truppführer consisted of two button pips...
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  • Obertruppführer renamed Hauptscharführer SS rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer SS rank Scharführer renamed Unterscharführer SS rank Haupttruppführer...
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  • SS-Unterscharführer Hermann Kleiss (in September–October 1944), SS-Oberscharführer Johann Mayer (October–November 1944), SS-Hauptscharführer Ernst Thulke...
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  • Rochus Misch (29 July 1917 – 5 September 2013) was a German Oberscharführer (sergeant) in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH)...
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  • Allegiance Germany Service / branch Waffen-SS Years of service 1936–45 Rank Oberscharführer Battles / wars World War II Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...
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  • been tried more than a decade earlier on other charges, such as SS-Oberscharführer Hubert Gomerski. He was acquitted in the euthanasia trials of 1947...
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  • Mürer (24 January 1912 – 5 January 1994) was an Austrian SS NCO (SS-Oberscharführer). Also known as the "Butcher of Vilnius", he created and ruled the...
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    August 1984?), sometimes referred to as "Preacher", was a Nazi and SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant). During World War II, he participated in the extermination...
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    Acquitted & released Herbert Scherpe SS Oberscharführer 4½ years imprisonment Bruno Schlage SS Oberscharführer 6 years imprisonment Johann Schobert Political...
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  • Technische Nothilfe (TENO) TN-Stabsscharführer TN-Hauptscharführer TN-Oberscharführer TN-Scharführer TN-Obervormann TN-Vormann TN-Mann TN-Anwärter German...
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    Army denazification investigator in the film Taking Sides and as SS-Oberscharführer Erich Muhsfeldt in the film The Grey Zone. In 2002, at the 24th Moscow...
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  • returned earlier from Chełm than expected. When he discovered that SS-Oberscharführer Rudolf Beckmann was dead, Bauer started shooting at the two Jewish...
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  • December 2004) was a German SS (Schutzstaffel) Non-Commissioned Officer, Oberscharführer, war criminal, and commandant of the camps in Rozwadów, Przemyśl, and...
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    defendants were sentenced to death, including the camp deputy commandant Oberscharführer Walter Piller (wrongly, Filer); the gas van operator Hauptscharführer...
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    Goebbels' body, which did not move. In a contradictory account, SS-Oberscharführer Rochus Misch claimed that mechanic Johannes Hentschel told him that...
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  • that the rank of his uniform. In the movie Niemann is ranked as SS-Oberscharführer however his real rank should be of an SS-Untersturmführer. SS-Unterscharführer...
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  • Hermann Jeschke (born August 17, 1890, date of death unknown) was an SS-Oberscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted...
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    SS-Oberscharführer Franz Wolf (9 April 1907 – 9 October 1999) was a German Nazi senior squad leader serving with the Action T4 forced euthanasia program...
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