The SS Main Office (German: SS-Hauptamt; SS-HA) was the central command office of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in Nazi Germany until 1940. The office traces...
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Office (SS-Hauptamt). The Allgemeine SS was officially established in the autumn of 1934 to distinguish its members from the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS Dispositional...
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The SS Court Main Office (German: Hauptamt SS-Gericht) - one of the 12 SS main departments - was the legal department of the SS in Nazi Germany. It was...
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Units and commands of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS-Abschnitt)
the title of Hauptamt which would remain the standard name for an SS main office for the duration of the group's existence. SS-Gruppen ("SS-Groups"): These...
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the SS-Z.A.'s issuance, and an SS member had only to apply to the SS-Hauptamt in order to receive the civil badge. Adolf Hitler was given honorary SS number...
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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...
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of the SS, was formed in August 1940 from certain departments of the SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt or SS-HA) and the Allgemeine SS (General SS). Its main...
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and SS camp guards. In June 1939 SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl became chief of both the Verwaltung und Wirtschaft Hauptamt (VuWHA) and the Hauptamt Haushalt...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
SS to 3,000 members in his first year as its leader. In 1929, the SS-Hauptamt (main SS office) was expanded and reorganised into five main offices dealing...
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among professional officers in the SS. The publisher was the SS-Hauptamt, the main office of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, and the printing was...
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the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office). Their commanders carried the title of SS-Oberabschnitte Führer and usually held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer or SS-Obergruppenführer...
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Gottlob Berger (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
appointed Berger as chief of the recruiting department of the SS-Hauptamt (SS Main Office, or SS-HA), which he quickly developed into a powerful tool for Himmler's...
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Settlement Office (RuSHA) but was later subordinated to the SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt). When the RuSHA was established on 30 January 1935, it assumed...
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This register of SS leaders in general's rank includes the members of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS, in line with the appropriate SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste...
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Franz Breithaupt (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From August 1942 until April 1945, he was chief of the SS Court Main Office (Hauptamt SS-Gericht). Breithaupt...
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Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
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The Germanic SS (German: Germanische SS) was the collective name given to paramilitary and political organisations established in parts of German-occupied...
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Josef Spacil (category SS-Standartenführer)
1934 SS-Sturmbannführer Josef Spacil was used on the staff of the Reichsführer-SS. A year later he transferred to the SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt). On...
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Ordnungspolizei (redirect from Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei)
command office known as the Ordnungspolizei Hauptamt was located in Berlin. From 1943 it was considered a full SS-Headquarters command. The Orpo main office...
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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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Theodor Eicke (category SS and Police Leaders)
the CCI came under the administrative control of the SS-Hauptamt Verwaltung und Wirtschaft (SS Office [for] Administration and Business) which was set...
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Christianity), and later by the Nazis. See Der Reichsführer SS/SS-Hauptamt, Rassenpolitik (SS handbook on race) Giuseppe Sergi, The Mediterranean Race:...
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SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; lit. 'Death's Head Units') was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. It was responsible...
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417. Shirer 1991, p. 939. Himmler, Heinrich (1943). "An SS Booklet on Racial Policy". SS-Hauptamt. Golecka 2003, p. 61. Ramet 2016, p. 227. Pynsent 2000...
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Police forces of Nazi Germany (category Nazi SS)
Command and control of the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo) was exerted through Hauptamt Ordnungspolizei, founded in 1936, under the successive leadership of Kurt...
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British Free Corps (category Legions of the Waffen-SS)
officers acted as the Verbindungsoffizier ("liaison officer") between the SS-Hauptamt Amtsgruppe D/3, which was responsible for the unit and the British volunteers...
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Hans Jüttner (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
Konzentrationslagern, which reported directly to the SS-Hauptamt. Sydnor, Charles W, Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945. Princeton...
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slave labor Count 8: Membership in a criminal organization, the NSDAP and the SS ^1 Stuckart was tried again in 1950 before a denazification court and sentenced...
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Oskar Dirlewanger (category SS-Oberführer)
long-time personal friend of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and had become the head of the SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt, SS-HA). Dirlewanger next went to Spain...
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Oswald Pohl (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
administrative chief of the SS-Hauptamt, accompanied Himmler to the small town of Mauthausen where it was decided that the SS-operated German Earth and...
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