• Thumbnail for Schutzstaffel
    The Schutzstaffel (German: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ; lit. 'Protection Squadron'; SS; also stylised with Armanen runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation...
    139 KB (17,516 words) - 03:51, 19 December 2024
  • The esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel or SS runes (German: SS-Runen) were used from the 1920s to 1945 on Schutzstaffel (SS) flags, uniforms and other...
    10 KB (229 words) - 05:40, 22 December 2024
  • Between 1925 and 1945, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS...
    197 KB (852 words) - 17:37, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waffen-SS
     'Armed SS') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along...
    152 KB (18,336 words) - 20:09, 25 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel
    The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) served to distinguish its Nazi paramilitary ranks between 1925 and 1945 from the ranks of the Wehrmacht...
    58 KB (6,536 words) - 01:03, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gerda Steinhoff
    Gerda Steinhoff (29 January 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a Schutzstaffel (SS) Nazi concentration camp overseer following the 1939 German invasion of Poland...
    5 KB (398 words) - 08:26, 20 December 2024
  • Units and commands of the Schutzstaffel were organizational titles used by the SS to describe the many groups, forces, and formations that existed within...
    20 KB (2,681 words) - 09:21, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for World War II
    Schutzstaffel (SS) female camp guards removing prisoners' bodies from lorries and carrying them to a mass grave, inside the German Bergen-Belsen concentration...
    249 KB (26,018 words) - 20:02, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS-Gefolge (Women's SS Division)
    group of female civilian employees of the Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany. SS-Gefolge members served the Schutzstaffel in a limited capacity, as the organisation...
    8 KB (786 words) - 16:57, 24 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ideology of the SS
    The ideology of the Schutzstaffel ("Protection Squadron"; SS), a paramilitary force and an instrument of terror of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, emphasized...
    67 KB (8,756 words) - 20:59, 4 December 2024
  • Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 historical war drama film written and produced by Bernd Eichinger and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It is...
    54 KB (5,526 words) - 23:39, 25 December 2024
  • Freiwillige Schutzstaffel ('Voluntary Protection Corps', abbreviated FS) was a paramilitary organization in the World War II Slovak Republic. FS was founded...
    7 KB (810 words) - 01:48, 5 September 2021
  • Thumbnail for Obersturmbannführer
    Party (NSDAP) which was used by the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel). The rank of Obersturmbannführer was junior to the rank of Standartenführer...
    7 KB (531 words) - 09:37, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oberführer
    became an actual SA rank after 1926. Oberführer was also a rank of the Schutzstaffel (SS, at that time a branch of the SA), established in 1925 as Gauführer...
    6 KB (395 words) - 00:09, 5 December 2024
  • thus preserving them for future use as soldiers." An exception was the Schutzstaffel, which required all officers to prove "racial purity" back to 1750....
    31 KB (3,124 words) - 21:40, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soviet Union
    as a Russian Cyrillic abbreviation is associated with the infamous Schutzstaffel of Nazi Germany, as SS is in English. In English-language media, the...
    218 KB (22,041 words) - 10:02, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gruppenführer
    Uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel Corps colours (Waffen-SS) Table of ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS...
    7 KB (557 words) - 09:36, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reichsführer-SS
    existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 for the commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Reichsführer-SS was a title from 1925 to 1933, and from 1934 to...
    21 KB (1,782 words) - 13:53, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Josef Mengele
    (German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] ; 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front...
    57 KB (6,563 words) - 02:53, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Syria
    of recruiting former Nazis, including several former members of the Schutzstaffel, to build up their armed forces and military intelligence capabilities...
    246 KB (23,740 words) - 15:43, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christian Weber (SS general)
    May 1945) was a German Nazi Party (NSDAP) official and member of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Along with the likes of Emil Maurice, Ulrich Graf, and Max Amann...
    8 KB (838 words) - 03:30, 23 December 2024
  • Weiter (18 July 1889 – 2 May 1945) was a German bureaucrat who became a Schutzstaffel Obersturmbannführer and concentration camp commandant during World War...
    5 KB (531 words) - 02:32, 28 September 2024
  • "Dieter" Wisliceny (13 January 1911 – 4 May 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the deputies of Adolf Eichmann, helping to organise...
    5 KB (386 words) - 15:06, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    haɪst ˈtʁɔʏə]; "My honor is [called] loyalty") was the motto of the Schutzstaffel (SS) under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. In a National...
    4 KB (361 words) - 14:12, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gestapo
    On 20 April 1934, oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police...
    89 KB (10,933 words) - 21:06, 30 November 2024
  • This article lists divisions of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) and Waffen-SS active during World War II, including divisions of the Heer (army), Luftwaffe...
    75 KB (5,765 words) - 13:14, 27 June 2024
  • List of German corps in World War II This is a list of German Army corps that existed during World War II. I Army Corps II Army Corps III Army Corps IV...
    10 KB (697 words) - 23:49, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer
    ([ˈoːbɐstˌɡʁʊpm̩fyːʁɐ]) was (from 1942 to 1945) the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS, which became a commissioned...
    8 KB (841 words) - 13:53, 20 August 2024
  • creation of another bodyguard unit in 1925 that ultimately became the Schutzstaffel (SS). During the Night of the Long Knives (die Nacht der langen Messer)...
    50 KB (5,972 words) - 05:33, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nazi Germany
    greater political and military power. In response, Hitler used the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Gestapo to purge the entire SA leadership. Hitler targeted...
    174 KB (20,526 words) - 22:42, 26 December 2024