Himmler. Reichsführer-SS was both a title and a rank. The title of Reichsführer was first created in 1926 by the second commander of the SS, Joseph Berchtold...
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Sicherheitsdienst (redirect from Sicherheitsdienst Reichsführer-SS)
Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in...
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Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS (lit. 'Command Staff Reich Leader-SS') was a paramilitary organisation within the SS of Nazi Germany under the personal control...
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The 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Reichsführer-SS" (German: 16. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS") was a motorised infantry formation...
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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...
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Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS, which became a commissioned rank when held by SS commander Heinrich Himmler. The rank is translated...
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Obergruppenführer (redirect from SS-Obergruppenfüher)
by the Schutzstaffel (SS) one year later. Until April 1942, it was the highest commissioned SS rank after only Reichsführer-SS. Translated as "senior...
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The Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (German: Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS) was a main office of the SS, which was established in 1933 by Heinrich...
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daughter of Heinrich Himmler and Margarete Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS, was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and chief architect of the...
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with some units being subordinated to the Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS (Command Staff Reichsführer-SS) directly under Himmler's control. Initially, in keeping...
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Heinrich Himmler (category Reichsführer-SS)
1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and...
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6th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "Langemarck" Assault Brigade "Reichsführer SS" 8th SS Volunteer Assault Brigade "France" SS Cavalry Brigade SS Brigade...
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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rank)
cuffband system. The holder of the title of Reichsführer was still considered an SA-Gruppenführer, with Reichsführer itself not yet an actual rank. In addition...
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Office Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS; HaPerStab) SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office; SS-HA) SS-Führungshauptamt (SS Leadership Main Office; SS-FHA) Reichssicherheitshauptamt...
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the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS. SS-Obstgruf was comparable to four-star ranks in English...
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The SS-Ehrendegen or SS Honour Sword, also SS-Degen (officially Ehrendegen des Reichsführers SS), is a straight dress sword that was worn with an SS uniform...
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Joachim Peiper (category SS-Standartenführer)
deployment of units of the Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS ("Command Staff Reichsführer-SS"), which comprised 25,000 Waffen-SS soldiers tasked to execute racial...
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Karl Hanke (category Reichsführer-SS)
its rule over Germany who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from...
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1893 – 25 August 1967), also known as Marga Himmler, was the wife of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Margarete Boden was born in Goncarzewo near Bromberg...
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idea to form a paratrooper unit within the Waffen-SS allegedly came directly from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Adolf Hitler supposedly got the idea...
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SA outranked the most senior SS position of Reichsführer-SS. Following the Night of the Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the...
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Gottgläubig (section Himmler and the SS)
the French Occupation Zone, before it faded from official documents. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, himself a former Roman Catholic, was one of the main...
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Einsatzgruppen (redirect from SS-Einsatzgruppe)
throughout Eastern Europe. Under the direction of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and the supervision of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen...
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Begleit-Bataillon Reichsführer-SS May 1941 - Feb 1943) Sturmbrigade Reichsführer SS (Feb 1943 - Oct 1943) 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS (Oct 1943...
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All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally...
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Joseph Berchtold (category Reichsführer-SS)
died in 1962. He was the last surviving person to hold the rank of Reichsführer-SS and the only one to survive the Second World War. Born on 6 March 1897...
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Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre (category War crimes of the Waffen-SS)
of the 2nd Battalion of SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 35 of 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS, commanded by SS-Hauptsturmführer Anton Galler...
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25% of all Waffen-SS troops. The units were under the control of the SS Führungshauptamt (SS Command Main Office) led by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler...
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Julius Schreck (category Reichsführer-SS)
the office position, which became known as the Reichsführer-SS. Schreck remained on the SS rolls as an SS-Führer and worked as Hitler's private chauffeur...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
chief of the SS. Berchtold changed the title of the office to Reichsführer-SS (Reich Leader-SS). Berchtold was considered more dynamic than his predecessor...
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