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    SS-Junker Schools (German SS-Junkerschulen) were leadership training facilities for officer candidates of the Schutzstaffel (SS). The term Junkerschulen...
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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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  • Look up Junker or junker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Junker may refer to: Junker, originally a noble honorific used across the German-speaking...
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  • era in Germany. The office's tasks included the administration of the SS-Junker Schools, of medical services, of logistics, and of rates of pay. It was...
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    established two SS-Junker Schools (SS officer training camps) that, under the direction of former Lieutenant General Paul Hausser, prepared future SS leaders...
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    SS-Verfügungstruppe and SS-Totenkopfverbände in recognition of special merit. It was also awarded to officers who graduated from the SS-Junker Schools, the SS officer...
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    department. In 1935, he joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe and served as an instructor at the SS Officer's school at the SS-Junker School Bad Tölz. He earned the...
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  • 2010, p. 27. Hermann Schwarz, Gott jenseits von theismus und pantheismus, Junker und Dünnhaupt, 1928.[1] Robert Ley, Organisationsbuch der NSDAP (1943)[2]...
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    the Waffen-SS were required to attend SS-Junkerschulen (SS-Junker Schools), which were training camps established to train future Waffen-SS officers. The...
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    and spa town. In 1899, it became known as Bad Tölz. In 1937, SS-Junker School Bad Tölz (an SS officer candidate training camp) was established near the town...
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  • Fahnenjunker (short Fhj or FJ, English: officer cadet; lit. 'flag junker') is a military rank of the Bundeswehr and of some former German armed forces...
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  • paramilitary organization. This included the SS officer schools (SS-Junker Schools), physical training, communication, SS garrisons, logistics and support. Shortly...
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    equivalent to the first Waffen-SS officer candidate rank of Junker FA. Shoulder strap SS-Unterscharführer (Junker FA) Gorget patches SS smock insignia Requirements...
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    for Finns who had defected to Germany or German-occupied Norway at the SS-Junker Schools at Bad Tölz. Sonderkommando Nord organized espionage training...
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    Joachim Peiper (category SS-Standartenführer)
    course of his career in the SS. In the April 1935 – March 1936 period, Peiper trained as a military officer in the SS-Junker School, from which institution...
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    training companies. Police officers were mainly recruited from the SS-Junker Schools (SS-Junkerschulen) in Bad Tölz, Braunschweig and Klagenfurt. Others...
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    (nephew of Adolf Hitler) Adolf Hitler Schools Nazi elite schools SS-Junker Schools SS Education Office Brown, Mark (17 November 2021). "Nazis based their...
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    The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (German: SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt; SS-WVHA) was a Nazi organization responsible for managing...
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  • Braunschweig Braunschweig SS Junker School Repair work Colditz Colditz Hugo Schneider AG Munitions factory Crawinkel Crawinkel SS-WVHA Quarry work and tunneling...
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    Heinrich Wicker (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    evacuated. After recovering, Wicker completed courses for SS leadership applicants at the SS-Junker Schools in Bad Tölz from August to November 1943. In November...
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    Sylvester Stadler (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
    SS-Junker School in Braunschweig . From March 1, 1942 he commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Panzer Grenadier Regiment Der Führer belonging to the SS Division...
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    SS were based on the individual's commitment and political reliability, not on Junker status or upper-class family background. Consequently, the SS officer...
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    Assault Unit Leader of SS (Junker) Training School Waffen-SS SS Karl Hans Joehnk Member of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Allgemeine SS SS Karl Heinz Hoffmann...
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    further 400 male prisoners. The subcamp SS-Reitschule, named so as it was located on the former premises of the SS-Junker School's riding school, held approximately...
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    sanatorium at Bad Tölz, south of Munich, which was also the site of an SS-Junker school. Later he stayed some time at Grundlsee in Austria, and was received...
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  • joined the SS on 15 June 1933. He joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe in December 1933. In 1937, as an SS-Oberscharführer, he attended the SS-Junker school at...
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  • committed unspeakable acts of cruelty in perpetrating the Holocaust. SS-Junker Schools National Political Institutes of Education Weale 2012, p. 120...
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  • Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden. Other buildings in the Third Reich were the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz (1935–1936), the Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden (1936–1937)...
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    the last Waffen-SS division created during the war. The 38th SS-Grenadier Division 'Nibelungen' was formed in April 1945 from the Junker School in Bad Tölz...
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  • lit. '"Perrot Unit"'), officially the Breton SS Armed Formation (German: Bretonische Waffenverband der SS) was a small collaborationist unit established...
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