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    the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the Schutzstaffel (SS). The word originated during World War I when Sturmmann was a position held by soldiers in German pioneer...
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    original SS rank of Mann for the Allgemeine-SS (general SS). The rank of Mann was junior to SS-Sturmmann. In most Nazi Party organizations, the rank of...
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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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    Maria Mandl, head of the Auschwitz women's camps; and SS-doctor Johann Kremer. Thirty-seven other SS officers—thirty-three men and four women—who had served...
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    lasting 474 sessions. A number of former high ranking SS men, camp officials, camp guards, and SS staff were arraigned before the courts on charges of...
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  • Enlisted Man in the German Wehrmacht, equivalent to the Schutzstaffel's Sturmmann. A somewhat large portion of the German Army in the Second World War consisted...
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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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    Rottenführer (category SS ranks)
    them the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) and was senior to the paramilitary rank of Sturmmann. The insignia for Rottenführer consisted of two...
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    Oberschütze (category SS ranks)
    the Waffen-SS Original German: SS-Oberschütze McNab 2009, p. 30. Flaherty 2004, p. 148. Flaherty, T. H. (2004) [1988]. The Third Reich: The SS. Time-Life...
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    prison camp he was persuaded to join the British Free Corps of the Waffen-SS as an SS-Mann during the Second World War. He was associated with the unit until...
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    junior positions were introduced: Sturmmann and Rottenführer. By this time, Himmler had also increased scrutiny on SS membership with a particular focus...
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  • decoration – the Black Wound Badge. In March 1942, he was promoted to SS-Sturmmann. After recovering from another injury, he was sent for tank training...
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    Erich Dinges (category SS personnel)
    Erich Adam Oskar Dinges (20 November 1911 – 23 April 1953) was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at...
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  • Gardener Miroljub Lešo as Prisoner (uncredited) Bozidar Pavićević-Longa as SS-Sturmmann Ivan Klatt (uncredited) Howard K. Smith as Narrator (American version)...
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  • consisted primarily of junior SS soldiers holding the rank of Schütze, Oberschütze, and Sturmmann. Auschwitz Dog Squad SS-Obersturmführer Hans Merbach...
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  • e Waffen-SS Heer (Army) Luftwaffe (Air Force) Kriegsmarine (Navy) SS-Schütze Schütze Flieger Matrose SS-Oberschütze Oberschütze SS-Sturmmann Gefreiter...
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    Joachim Peiper (category SS-Standartenführer)
    Peiper was promoted to SS-Sturmmann at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, where his reputation attracted the notice of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, for whom...
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    June 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2016. Mollo, Andrew (1992). Uniforms of the SS, Vol. 5: "Sicherheitsdienst und Sicherheitspolizei 1931–1945". London: Windrow...
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    Alexander Bülow (category SS personnel)
    Alexander Bülow (born 28 April 1905, date of death unknown) was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted...
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  • February 1913 – 1 September 2003) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He commanded the SS Division Leibstandarte during World War II. He was...
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  • SS members. The SS-Section was commanded by an SS-Rottenführer and consisted of SS troopers holding the rank of Mann or Sturmmann. The Allgemeine SS also...
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  • Johannes Weber (category SS personnel)
    Johannes Weber (March 23, 1902 – October 11, 1949) was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff in Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz...
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  • Dinges, American sleep researcher and teacher Erich Dinges (1911–1953), SS-Sturmmann John Dinges (born 1941), American reporter and author Vance Dinges (1915–1990)...
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  • e Waffen-SS Heer (Army) Luftwaffe (Air Force) Kriegsmarine (Navy) SS-Schütze Schütze Flieger Matrose SS-Oberschütze Oberschütze SS-Sturmmann Gefreiter...
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  • e Waffen-SS Heer (Army) Luftwaffe (Air Force) Kriegsmarine (Navy) SS-Schütze Schütze Flieger Matrose SS-Oberschütze Oberschütze SS-Sturmmann Gefreiter...
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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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    revealed by a traitor, were surrounded by the SS. In the ensuing firefight, Musolesi was killed by SS-Sturmmann Kurt Wölfle (who for this was awarded the...
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  • his family to survive the war in 1945. Dates of Rank SA-Mann: 1932 SA-Sturmmann: 1933 Schutze (Wehrmacht): 1938 Leutnant: 1941 Oberleutnant: 1942 Awards...
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    in Frankfurt against two former members of the SS, Unterscharführer Horst Czerwinski  [de] and Sturmmann Josef Schmidt, for killings in the Auschwitz satellite...
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  • e Waffen-SS Heer (Army) Luftwaffe (Air Force) Kriegsmarine (Navy) SS-Schütze Schütze Flieger Matrose SS-Oberschütze Oberschütze SS-Sturmmann Gefreiter...
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