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    of Untersturmführer was senior to Hauptscharführer (or Sturmscharführer in the Waffen-SS) and junior to the rank of Obersturmführer. Untersturmführer was...
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  • Josef Kollmer SS-Untersturmführer Otto Wolnek Guard Battalion NCOs SS-Hauptscharführer Adolf Becker SS-Hauptscharführer Matthias Tannhausen SS-Oberscharführer...
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    entertained the SS-officers, was also given/giving tours) Otto Rahn (1937) SS-Untersturmführer Johannes Otto SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich Wicker SS-Obersturmbannführer...
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    Johann Niemann (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Himmler's visit to Sobibor on 12 February 1943, Niemann was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer. Karl Frenzel, also a commandant at Sobibor, recalled how Niemann...
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  • Schutzstaffel Former SS Ranks changed after 1934: SS rank Sturmhauptführer renamed Hauptsturmführer SS rank Sturmführer renamed Untersturmführer SS rank Obertruppführer...
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    stripe centered on a uniform collar patch. The rank was senior to an Untersturmführer (or Sturmführer in the SA) and junior to the rank of Hauptsturmführer...
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    where Hauptscharführer was immediately junior to rank of SS-Untersturmführer. In the Waffen-SS, Hauptscharführer was a rank bestowed upon company and battalion...
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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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    Heinrich Wicker (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Heinrich Wicker (30 June 1921 – 29 April 1945) was a German SS-Untersturmführer. He was the last commandant of the Dachau concentration camp. In the final...
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    the SS garrisons, had also fled before the arrival of U.S. troops. SS-Untersturmführer Heinrich Wicker (killed after the surrender) was left in charge and...
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  • Hans Stark (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Hans Stark (14 June 1921 – 29 March 1991) was an SS-Untersturmführer and head of the admissions detail at Auschwitz-II Birkenau of Auschwitz concentration...
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    extermination process. SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann served as the camp's deputy commandant. Day-to-day operations were generally handled by SS-Oberscharfuhrer...
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    Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben (category SS and Police Leaders)
    was assigned to the staff of SS-Abschnitt (District) VII, based in Königsberg, and was commissioned an SS-Untersturmführer on 9 November 1933. He rose...
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    Léon Gaultier (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    of the Milice. Gaultier fought for Germany in the Waffen-SS with the rank of Untersturmführer. He commanded a French unit on the Eastern Front in the fall...
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  • Feldpolizei. The policy directives came from the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office) and after 1940, the SS Führungshauptamt (SS Leadership Main Office). The Kripo was...
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    the following two SS Lagerführer officers served as the camp commandants, the SS-Untersturmführer Anton Thumann, and SS-Untersturmführer Georg Güßregen....
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  • Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany...
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    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...
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    Kurt Franz (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Kurt Hubert Franz (17 January 1914 – 4 July 1998) was an SS officer and one of the commanders of the Treblinka extermination camp. Because of this, Franz...
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    inside the bunker doorway. At around 16:15, Linge ordered SS-Untersturmführer Heinz Krüger and SS-Oberscharführer Werner Schwiedel to roll up the rug in...
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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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    atrocities on the Eastern Front. SS-Untersturmführer Krämer (captured on the Western Front during his service with the SS Division Hitlerjugend) recounted...
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    January 1939 : SS-Untersturmführer November 1940 : SS-Oberscharführer der Waffen SS July 1941 : SS-Obersturmführer February 1944 : SS-Hauptsturmführer...
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    Martin James Monti (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    Sittler's home. Both would later join SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Monti was commissioned with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer, equivalent to his rank in the U...
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    feared overseer was Untersturmführer Franz Schwarz, who killed prisoners with a pickaxe or hammer. Treblinka II (officially the SS-Sonderkommando Treblinka)...
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  • Willem Sassen (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    2002) was a Dutch collaborator, Nazi journalist and a member of the Waffen-SS. He became known around 1960 as "the interviewer of Adolf Eichmann". Willem...
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    Amon Göth (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Jewish population of Europe. He was commissioned to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) on 14 July 1941. Göth also received a Dienstleistungszeugnis...
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  • In the movie Niemann is ranked as SS-Oberscharführer however his real rank should be of an SS-Untersturmführer. SS-Unterscharführer Walter "Ryba" Hochberg...
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  • Gerhard Sommer (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    1921 – 2019) was a German SS-Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) in the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS who was involved in the massacre...
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  • Hans Münch (category SS-Untersturmführer)
    The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943...
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