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    Hauptsturmführer (German: [ˈhaʊpt.ʃtʊʁmˌfyːʁɐ], lit. 'head storm leader'; short: Hstuf) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi...
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    Rottenführer: Death, executed: October 28, 1948 Theodor Meyer, SS Hauptsturmführer: Death, executed: October 28, 1948 Ewald Foth, SS Oberscharführer:...
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  • SS-Sturmhauptführer (SS-Storm head leader). However, the rank was renamed to SS-Hauptsturmführer (SS-Head storm leader). In line with the formation of the SA-Defence...
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    Untersturmführer (or Sturmführer in the SA) and junior to the rank of Hauptsturmführer. Comparative ranks of Nazi Germany Table of ranks and insignia of the...
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    Josef Kramer (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Josef Kramer (10 November 1906 – 13 December 1945) was a Hauptsturmführer and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944)...
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    performed by up to 100 mostly Ukrainian Trawniki guards, recruited by SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Streibel from among the Soviet prisoners of war, and by up to...
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    March 1913 in Donaueschingen – 3 May 1967 in Cairo) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and concentration camp doctor. The son of a church painter, Eisele...
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    Junior rank Hauptsturmführer (until 1939/40: Sturmhauptführer) SA rank Sturmbannführer Senior rank Obersturmbannführer Junior rank Hauptsturmführer (until...
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    press labelled Grese as "the Beautiful Beast" alongside former SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer ("the Beast of Belsen"), the former commandant at Birkenau...
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  • was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class in July 1940 and promoted to Hauptsturmführer (captain). Darges was then posted to the newly formed SS Division Wiking...
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  • Dieter Wisliceny (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    became a member of the SD. Wisliceny eventually rose to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) in 1940; he worked in the Reich Security Head Office Referat...
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  • Former SS Ranks changed after 1934: SS rank Sturmhauptführer renamed Hauptsturmführer SS rank Sturmführer renamed Untersturmführer SS rank Obertruppführer...
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  • colonel SS-Sturmbannführer (SS-Assault unit leader) Major Major Major SS-Hauptsturmführer (SS-Head assault leader) Hauptmann/Rittmeister Captain Captain SS-Obersturmführer...
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    [ˈʃtʊʁmhaʊptˌfyːʁɐ]; lit. 'storm chief leader'; short: Stuhaf), renamed to Hauptsturmführer (lit. 'chief storm leader'; short: Hstuf), was a Nazi Party paramilitary...
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    Major Major Truppenführer – Troop/Platoon officers Hauptsturmführer Chief assault leader Hauptsturmführer Hauptmann/Rittmeister Captain Obersturmführer Senior...
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    Alois Brunner (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    magisterial court) was an Austrian officer who held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II. Brunner played a significant role in...
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    Amon Göth (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    SS-Hauptscharführer Josef Grzimek, who was sent to assist camp commandant SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Kellermann with mass killings. Between 21 September 1943 and 3 February...
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  • Anton Burger (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Anton "Toni" Burger (19 November 1911 – 25 December 1991) was a Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the German Nazi SS, Judenreferent in Greece (1944) and Lagerkommandant...
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    Meyer-Mader SS-Hauptsturmführer Billig SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann SS-Sturmbannführer der Reserve Franz Liebermann SS-Hauptsturmführer Reiner Olzscha...
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    1942 Succeeded by SS-Sturmbannführer Paul-Werner Hoppe Preceded by SS-Hauptsturmführer Martin Gottfried Weiss Commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp...
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    1941. The most notorious doctor to perform medical experiments was SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele, camp doctor at Auschwitz. Many of his victims died....
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    Heinrich Fehlis (leader of SD and SiPo in Norway) to the right. Also SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Kluckhohn, SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Schellenberg, Rudolf Schiedermair...
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    Adolf Zutter (10 February 1889 – 27 May 1947) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer at Mauthausen concentration camp, who was tried and executed for war crimes...
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  • Majdanek trials in 1981; died in 1994. Waldemar Hoven – Buchenwald Hauptsturmführer, arrested for murdering Hauptscharführer Rudolf Köhler in September...
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  • September 1956 in Homburg) was a German physician, bacteriologist and Hauptsturmführer (1944), at Auschwitz, in the branch of the Hygiene Institute of the...
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  • green SS-Obersturmführer Supply Light blue SS-Hauptsturmführer Administration Bright blue SS-Hauptsturmführer Medical service Cornflower blue Standartenführer...
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    Richard Thomalla (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Thomalla: I and Hengs – euthanasia man – went to Treblinka by car. SS-Hauptsturmführer Richard Thomalla was the camp commander. The Treblinka camp was still...
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    Friedrich Nietzsche in order to legitimize Nazism. Klaus Barbie – An SS-Hauptsturmführer, he was head of the Gestapo in Lyon. Nicknamed "the Butcher of Lyon"...
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    Willi Lehmann (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Soviet agent in Nazi Germany. Lehmann was a criminal inspector and SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain), alias Agent A-201/Breitenbach. During World War II Lehmann...
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  • Baer (1944–1945) Senior adjutant officers SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Kramer (Auschwitz I) SS-Hauptsturmführer Robert Mulka (Auschwitz I and II) Junior adjutant...
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