• Sonderführer (German: [ˈzɔndɐˌfyːʁɐ]; lit. "special leader"; in full: Sonderführer mit militärischer Kommandobefugnis, "special leader with military command...
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    member were an architectural engineer, then the SS-Hauptamt would issue a third rank of SS-Sonderführer. SS members could also hold reserve commissions in...
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  • or Troop-function colours (German: Waffenfarben) were worn in the Waffen-SS from 1938 until 1945 in order to distinguish between various branches of service...
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    Oberst von Baath Oberst Freiherr von Nolcken Oberst Konstantin Wagner Sonderführer Othmar Rudolf Wyrba a.k.a. "Dr. Doll" (German, Tibetan and Mongolian...
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  • work of the notoriously anti-Polish Dr Kurt Lück, who served as an SS-Sonderführer, before he was killed by Soviet partisans in 1942. Goetting, Hans (1955)...
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    used by the army and the Waffen-SS. By 1943, the ranks were also introduced to the Wehrmachtbeamte and the Sonderführer. First introduced in the Prussian...
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  • Thies Christophersen (category Waffen-SS personnel)
    a farmer. A private in the Wehrmacht, he was deployed as a Sonderführer by the Waffen-SS during World War II, and was stationed during this time at the...
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  • capital of Soviet Belarus. Defendants included German military, police, and SS officials who were responsible for implementing the occupational policies...
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    ISBN 978-1-906626-51-8. Rempel, Gerhard (1989). Hitler's Children: The Hitler Youth and the SS. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4299-7...
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    Reichskommissariat Ukraine. All power in the district was held by the Sonderführer, the German head of the district, who was subordinate to the Gebietskommissar...
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  • Gustav Staebe (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    Staebe was called up for military service with the German Army as a Sonderführer with the rank of Unteroffizier. He became the Editor-in-Chief of a frontline...
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    French Atlantic harbors after its commissioning. 1942: 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 4th SS Police Regiment 1943: At the height of the battle of the...
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    who was acting as an advisor to SS Colonel Dr Edmund Veesenmayer. Through Clissmann, Stuart was introduced to Sonderführer Kurt Haller. Around August 1940...
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    Germany following Latvia's occupation in 1940, returned to Latvia as a Sonderführer in the service of the German Wehrmacht. In early July, Pērkonkrusts was...
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  • Waffen SS during World War II consisting of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by the Nazis. The Corps used the SS rank structure...
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    deportation of Salonika's Jews Friedrich Schubert, Wehrmacht paramilitary Sonderführer in Crete and Macedonia Italian officials: Ambassador Pellegrino Ghigi...
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    border by Madrid-based Abwehr agent Wolfgang Blaum and handed over to Sonderführer Kurt Haller. From the border, Ryan was first taken to the resort town...
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    Barnet, Lt Cocksedge, Bosun Chrisp. Colditz, 19 June 1940. Signed Vogt, Sonderführer [censor department]. — A translation of the notice, wrote in broken French...
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  • no cryptanalysts available. Plaintext messages were received from the Sonderführer Huntemann of Abwehr III but the actual working of the agents concerned...
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  • working as a civilian. In 1942, he was drafted to In 7/VI with the rank of Sonderführer, equivalent to the military rank of Major, and was put in charge of a...
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  • regiments in the west. Randewig would later work on the rocket programme. Sonderführer Johannes Marquart. He was a mathematician, who was also a German Army...
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    flown by Sergeant B L Taylor whilst Feldwebel Hans Ott and his gunner Sonderführer Brack fell victim to Flying Officer John F Drummond. The campaign ended...
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