forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). He also controlled the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS. Himmler's interest in occultism and Völkisch...

and could then enlist in the group of their choice. An exception was the Waffen-SS, considered the military arm of the SS and Nazi Party, which during the...

ehemaligen Waffen-SS, literally "mutual help association of former Waffen-SS members") was a Waffen-SS lobby group, founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS members...

Fontane prize, which she declined since the former Nazi and member of the Waffen-SS, Hans Egon Holthusen, was a member of the jury. In 1959, Kaléko moved...

included the Falange in Francoist Spain, the Vichy regime and the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) in France and the...

significant in the genesis of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) and 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd...

World War II Organizational Series, Vol. 4/II: Mechanized GHQ units and Waffen-SS Formations (28th June 1942) Milton Keyes, Buckinghamshire: Military Press...

February 2016). "Dem "Henker von Fossoli" blieb ein Prozess auf deutschem Boden erspart" [The "Executor of Fossoli" is spared from a trial on German soil]...

Spiegel (online). Retrieved 15 May 2015. Tanja Stelzer (1 October 2007). "Die Waffen der Frauen". Warum zur RAF erstaunlich viele Frauen gehörten. Begegnungen...

Kampfgruppe (battlegroup) commanded by SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (Brigadier) Heinz Harmel was ordered to keep the Karawanken passes open...

hemligt giftermål Maurice Tourneur – Jean la Poudre Robert Wiene – Die Waffen der Jugend Wallace Beery – Kitty's Knight Frank Borzage – The Mystery of...

resulted in a number of right-wing Scandinavians signing up to fight in the Waffen-SS. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, further volunteers...

Prozessionen vorangeleuchtet hatten. Die Bewegung, die nunmehr aufsneue Boden zu gewinnen versuchte, war nicht mehr, was sie 1923 gewesen war. Jetzt hatte...

na straat veroverde op ’zeker duizend’ Duitsers die hardnekkig weerstand boden. Het was een verhaal dat hij – zo lachen zijn vrienden mild – op het laatst...

German Volk". According to historian Mark P. Gingerich, of the one million Waffen-SS men who served during the war, over half were not even German citizens...

and informants, many of whom had been soldiers in the Wehrmacht or the Waffen SS during World War II. As part of the operation, secret depots were set...

crusade against Bolshevism" and the Nazis then formed different units of the Waffen-SS consisting of mainly volunteers and conscripts. After Stalingrad, the...

Commanders: Officers of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, and the Waffen-SS. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4422-1154-4. Wistrich...

Białystok children – Murder of 1,200 Jewish children by Nazi Germany 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) – German mountain division...

prosecution and murder of Italian Jews and the Ardeatine massacre, while Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht units were responsible for the majority of war crimes committed...

December 2012. Michell 1994, p. 85 "MBB (Eurocopter) Bo105" (in German). WaffenHQ.de. Archived from the original on 29 March 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2007...

Pakravan, Iranian diplomat (b. 1911) April 19 – Wilhelm Bittrich, German Waffen SS general (b. 1894) April 23 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-born, British teacher...

and Sudetenland. When installing electric and lighting systems for the Waffen-SS training grounds in Dębica, AEG used forced labor from Jews placed in...

rapidly decline after the NSB started to adopt more racialist and blut und boden views, and was banned on 10 May 1940, in reaction to the European NSB entering...

February 2016). "Dem "Henker von Fossoli" blieb ein Prozess auf deutschem Boden erspart" [The „Executor of Fossoli“ is spared from a trial on German soil]...

Massacre) took place with the mass murder of 80 British and French POWs by Waffen-SS soldiers from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during...

February 2016). "Dem "Henker von Fossoli" blieb ein Prozess auf deutschem Boden erspart" [The „Executioner of Fossoli“ is spared from a trial on German...

politician (born 1893) 23 December — Kurt Meyer, German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS and war criminal (born 1910) 25 December — Otto Loewi, pharmacologist...

the autumn of 1940. He was actively recruiting Finns for the volunteer Waffen-SS battalion. Lindqvist recruited at least 111 men, 54 of whom ended up...

February 2016). "Dem "Henker von Fossoli" blieb ein Prozess auf deutschem Boden erspart" [The "Executor of Fossoli" is spared from a trial on German soil]...