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    SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer ([ˈoːbɐstˌɡʁʊpm̩fyːʁɐ]) was (from 1942 to 1945) the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of...
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    (stern, a star), upon the creation of the rank SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer in April 1942. In the SA, a Gruppenführer was typically in charge of a number of regiments...
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    April 1942, the new rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer was created which was above Obergruppenführer and below Reichsführer-SS. The rank of Obergruppenführer...
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  • short for SS Honour – and rank leaders (SS-Ehren- und Rangführer). SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (literal: SS-Colonel group leader), short SS-Obstgruf, was...
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    leaves in April 1942 after the creation of the rank SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer. Brigadeführer in the Waffen-SS or police also wore the shoulder insignia of a...
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    Sepp Dietrich (category SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer)
    highest-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS. Reaching the rank of Oberst-Gruppenführer, he commanded units up to army level...
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    – Generaladmiral Waffen-SSSS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Schutzstaffel (SS) – Oberst-Gruppenführer Sturmabteilung (SA) – No...
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    Paul Hausser (category SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer)
    seriously wounded (shot through the jaw). Hausser was promoted to SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer in August 1944 and subsequently commanded Army Group Oberrhein...
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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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    Franz Xaver Schwarz (category SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer)
    on 20 April 1942, he was promoted to the newly created rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, becoming one of only four people to ever hold the rank. On 5 June...
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  • service rank “SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer” (quotation: “SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer” (en: SS-Supreme-Group leader]), in order to avoid confusion to the SS-Obergruppenführer...
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    with the creation of the rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer. This necessitated an insignia change for SS generals and all SS generals at this time began wearing...
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    Insignia SS Oberst-Gruppenführer and Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS: Insignia 1942 - Paul Hausser (1880–1972) 1944 - Sepp Dietrich (1892–1966) SS Oberst-Gruppenführer...
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    Kurt Daluege (category SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer)
    Germany. He commanded the Orpo until 1943, rising to the rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst der Polizei. Reinhard Heydrich, who took control...
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  • first season. Rufus Sewell as John Smith, an SS Obergruppenführer, later promoted to Oberst-Gruppenführer, and then to Reichsmarschall of the colony of...
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    there on 13 March 1945, the army group commander, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst of the Waffen-SS Paul Hausser, and the two army commanders all...
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  • Wolfenstein and obtain a top secret folder containing the location of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strasse from the castle's commander, Nazi...
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  • Waffen-SS began using general ranks in addition to standard SS ranks. An Oberst-Gruppenführer of the Waffen-SS, for example, would be titled Oberst-Gruppenführer...
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    grave in Herzebrock-Clarholz Paul Hausser, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer und Generaloberst der Waffen-SS Werner Heisenberg, scientist and Nobel prize winner...
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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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  • the interrogator of Task Force Vanguard while they are captured, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Leo Steiner (Ray Proscia), the commander in charge of invading...
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  • Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
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    Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (category SS-Standartenführer)
    Reichsfuhrers SS (1910–1933); unipress, Göttingen 2011, p. 29 Dienstaltersliste der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP (SS-Oberst-GruppenführerSS-Standartenführer)...
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  • a list of Waffen-SS division commanders. SS-Commanders List of Waffen-SS divisions Waffen-SS Commanders by Mark C. Yerger Waffen-SS Divisions 1939-45...
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  • Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge (17 July 1944 – 15 August 1944) SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser (15 August 1944 – 17 August 1944) Generalfeldmarschall...
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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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    on 8 May 1945. SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich (4 July 1943 – 9 August 1944) SS-Brigadeführer Fritz Kraemer (9 – 16 August 1944) SS-Obergruppenführer...
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    February for Kharkov to be held "at all costs", SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser, commander of the II SS Panzer Corps, ordered the city evacuated on 15...
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    SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich, commander of the 6th Panzer Army, SS-Brigadeführer Fritz Krämer, SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Priess, commander of the I SS Panzer...
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  • Xavier March Miranda Richardson as Charlie Maguire Peter Vaughan as SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe Jean Marsh as Anna von Hagen Michael Kitchen as Untersturmführer...
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