positions; the rank of SS-Unterscharführer was junior to SS-Scharführer and senior to the rank of SS-Rottenführer. Unterscharführer was the most junior and...
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(Director of camp labor) SS-Unterscharführer Heinrich Schoppe (Labor service NCO) Women's camp sub-section SS-Unterscharführer Richard Perschel (Women's...
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Vogler, SS Hauptsturmführer: 15 years imprisonment Eduard Zerlin, SS Unterscharführer: 12 years imprisonment Oskar Gottchau, SS Unterscharführer: 10 years...
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Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre (category War crimes of the Waffen-SS)
1920, former SS-Unterscharführer) Alfred Mathias Concina (b. 1919, former SS-Unterscharführer) Ludwig Göring (or Goring) (b. 1923, former SS-Rottenführer...
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Scharführer (redirect from SS-Scharführer)
of SS-Scharführer became known as SS-Unterscharführer with the title of SS-Scharführer becoming equivalent to an SA-Oberscharführer. The rank of SS-Truppführer...
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Willi Mentz (category SS non-commissioned officers)
SS-Unterscharführer Willi Bruno Mentz (30 April 1904 – 25 June 1978) was a member of the German SS in World War II and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked...
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Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst (redirect from Ernst Hofmann (SS))
arrived at the camp. Led by its director, SS-Hauptscharführer Bernhard Walter, and deputy director, SS-Unterscharführer Ernst Hofmann, the Erkennungsdienst...
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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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concentration camp, she had a romantic relationship with the Austrian SS-Unterscharführer Franz Wunsch. Her story was covered in the BBC documentary series...
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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rank)
would be referred to as Waffen-Unterscharführer whereas a regular SS member would be addressed as SS-Unterscharführer. This helped to indicate non-native...
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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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Erwin Lambert (category SS non-commissioned officers)
Nazi Party member and member of the Schutzstaffel with the rank of SS-Unterscharführer (corporal). He supervised construction of the gas chambers for the...
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subcamp were SS-Unterscharführer Hermann Kleiss (in September–October 1944), SS-Oberscharführer Johann Mayer (October–November 1944), SS-Hauptscharführer...
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Obertruppführer renamed Hauptscharführer SS rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer SS rank Scharführer renamed Unterscharführer SS rank Haupttruppführer renamed...
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Sobibor extermination camp (redirect from SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor)
SS-Unterscharführer Friedrich Gaulstich, and SS-Unterscharführer Fritz Konrad. Those killed in Lager II included SS-Scharführer Josef Wolf and SS-Oberscharführer...
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Otto Rahn (category SS-Obersturmführer)
non-commissioned officer and became a full member of the SS in March 1936, attaining the rank of SS-Unterscharführer the following month. In an interview with Rüdiger...
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continue playing music in a marching band. At Auschwitz he was an SS-Unterscharführer employed as a driver in the motor pool. Böck reported that he was...
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Fritz Buntrock (category Waffen-SS personnel)
March 1909 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi German war criminal and SS-Unterscharführer (the SS equivalent to a corporal) serving at Auschwitz concentration...
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Bruno Gesche (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
After Gesche was reduced by nine grades in rank from a SS-Obersturmbannführer to SS-Unterscharführer, Franz Schädle was promoted to be the next commander...
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(SS-Obersturmführer Jürgen Wessel), 212 (SS-Unterscharführer Balthasar Woll), 213 (SS-Hauptscharführer Hans Höflinger) and 214 (SS-Unterscharführer Karl-Heinz...
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Oskar Gröning (category Waffen-SS personnel)
Oskar Gröning (10 June 1921 – 9 March 2018) was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities...
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October 1964 and concerned eleven members of the SS camp personnel, or about a quarter of the total number of SS employed in the extermination of Jews brought...
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Roland Puhr (category SS non-commissioned officers)
Roland Puhr (21 January 1914 – 15 April 1964) was an SS-Unterscharführer who committed numerous atrocities at Sachsenhausen concentration camp during...
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Hans Koch (August 13, 1912 – July 14, 1955) was an SS-Unterscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz...
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SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, abbreviated as LSSAH (German: 1. SS-Panzerdivision "Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
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Gustav Münzberger (category SS non-commissioned officers)
SS-Unterscharführer Gustav Münzberger (17 August 1903 – 23 March 1977), born in Weißkirchlitz (Sudetenland), was a carpenter and factory worker before...
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was evacuated on April 11, 1945. Two SS men were left to guard the school: SS Unterscharführer Johann Frahm and SS Oberscharführer Ewald Jauch, and the...
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Eduard Lorenz (category SS non-commissioned officers)
Eduard Lorenz (born February 12, 1921) was an SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at...
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Pery Broad (category SS non-commissioned officers)
the Schutzstaffel (SS) active at Auschwitz concentration camp from April 1942 to 1945. He reached the rank of SS-Unterscharführer while working as a translator...
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concentration camp guards. Between September 1941 and September 1942, the German SS and police trained 2,500 Trawniki men known as Hiwi Wachmänner (guards) at...
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