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    SS Black Osprey was a cargo ship for the American Diamond Lines and the British Cairn Line. She was formerly known as SS West Arrow when she was launched...
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  • The Allgemeine-SS. Osprey Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-85532-358-2. Yenne, Bill (2010). Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts: Himmler's Black Knights and the...
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    different uniforms existed for the SS over time, the all-black SS uniform adopted in 1932 is the most well known. The black–white–red colour scheme was characteristic...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    Chris (2009). The SS: 1923–1945. London: Amber Books. ISBN 978-1-906626-49-5. McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45. Osprey. ISBN 978-1-78200-088-4...
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    of Waffen-SS divisions List of SS personnel The Waffen-SS (4): 24. to 38. Divisions, & Volunteer Legions, Gordon Williamson, p. 19, Osprey Publishing...
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    they were placed above ..."). 3rd SS Division Totenkopf Fascist symbolism Human skull symbolism Kampfgeschwader 54 Black Brunswickers Jolly Roger Kuperjanov...
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    Hugo Boss (businessman) (category Förderndes Mitglied der SS)
    from the original on 29 July 2010. McNab, Chris. Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45, Osprey 2013, p 90. "Hugo Boss apology for Nazi past as book is published"...
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    The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, abbreviated as LSSAH (‹See Tfd›German: 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte...
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    The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) or SS Division Polizei was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded...
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  • Karl Diebitsch (category SS-Oberführer)
    Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to draft the well-known all-black SS uniform. Also with his business partner, industrialist Franz Nagy, Diebitsch...
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    SS ([ˌalɡəˈmaɪ̯nə ˈɛs ˈɛs]; "General SS") was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed by the SS Main...
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    The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. 'Armed SS') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations...
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    Medium Tanks: 1939–45. Oxford, England: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84908-775-9. Casagrande, Thomas (2003). Die volksdeutsche SS-Division "Prinz Eugen": Die Banater...
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    1923". Retrieved 1 December 2014. Brian L Davis, Flags of the Third Reich, Osprey Publishing, 2000, p. 100. Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage, An Illustrated Dictionary...
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    Artur Phleps (category SS and Police Leaders)
    army officer who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. An Austro-Hungarian...
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    Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (‹See Tfd›German: Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a Waffen-SS unit formed in September 1944...
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    The Osprey class are a series of coastal minehunters designed to find, classify, and destroy moored and bottom naval mines from vital waterways. Their...
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    Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS), or The Black Hunters (‹See Tfd›German: Die schwarzen Jäger), was a unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The unit, named...
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  • SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT, lit. 'SS Dispositional Troops') was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler...
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    The 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) was a foreign infantry division of the Waffen-SS that served alongside the Wehrmacht during...
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    pockets were of an angled slash type similar to the black or grey SS service-dress. The second button of an SS Feldbluse was positioned somewhat lower, so that...
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    Otto Skorzeny (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
    1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved...
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    Company. ISBN 0-395-41057-6. Williamson, Gordon (1991). Afrikakorps 1941-43. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-130-0. Zitiert nach Walther Hubatsch (Hrsg.): Hitlers...
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    titles of the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the paramilitary SS organisation of Nazi Germany, reflected the colours of the SS (black and silver) and were...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Thistlegorm
    SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea...
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    1942 as SS Irish Pine SS West Eldara West Arrow, later called SS Black Osprey torpedoed and sunk in 1941 Schodack, 1919 cargo, later called SS Alcoa Leader...
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  • Ltd. ISBN 978-1907446962. McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78200-088-4. Miller, Michael D.; Schulz, Andreas...
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  • Thumbnail for List of ships named on the Tower Hill Memorial
    Park SS Beaverford SS Bengore Head SS Black Osprey SS Box Hill (see SS Glentworth) SS Britannia (1925) SS British Chivalry SS British Consul SS British...
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    The 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party...
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    Ordnungspolizei (category Allgemeine SS)
    ISBN 978-1-4422-1316-6. McNab, Chris (2013). Hitler's Elite: The SS 1939-45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1782000884. Showalter, Dennis (2005). "Foreword"...
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