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    the Byelorussian SSR. As commander of the 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer in 1943, he was involved in operations against partisans as well as defensive...
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    101 Brigade Netze (Generalmajor Eccard Freiherr von Gablenz) 2 Grenzwacht-Regiments XIX. Armeekorps General der Panzertruppe Heinz Guderian 3. Panzer-Division...
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  • Geyer XXVII Corps – General der Infanterie Alfred Wäger 253th Infantry Division – Generalleutnant Fritz Kuhne 269th Infantry Division – Generalmajor Ernst-Eberhard...
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    processing and computing center Heinz Geyer – Deputy Chief of the HVA (since 1977) and Chief of Staff (since 1982), Generalmajor (since 1985) Staff of the HVA...
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    SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker (22 June 1941–23 March 1942) SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Heinz Jost (29...
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  • Gustav Lombard Commander 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" 1895–1992 also: Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau...
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    Kampfgruppe (battlegroup) commanded by SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS (Brigadier) Heinz Harmel, which was ordered to keep the Karawanks passes...
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    On 6 February 1941 Stahlecker was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei and took over as commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A, in...
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    January 1940 SS-Standartenführer 30 January 1941 SS-Oberführer 1 March 1941 Oberst der Polizei 30 January 1943 SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei...
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    sacked, replaced by former coach Eduard Geyer. Dynamo secured qualification on the last day, finishing eighth, but Geyer was dismissed due to disagreements...
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    on 28 April 1945 after a court martial led by 18SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS Wilhelm Mohnke. The sentence was carried out the same...
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    Staffelkapitän of the 3./Jagdgeschwader 11. According to Scherzer name is Franz-Heinz Koenig. According to Scherzer as Geschützführer (gun layer) in the 14./Grenadier-Regiment...
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    indicated that Friedrich Müller-Rochholz's former divisional commander Generalmajor Hermann Schulte-Heuthaus in 1961 recalled that he had nominated five...
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  • 20 April 1941 SS-Standartenführer 1 May 1942 SS-Oberführer 15 May 1942 Oberst der polizei 9 November 1944 SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der polizei...
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  • joined the SS in (SS-Nr. 361279). In September 1944 he was promoted Generalmajor der Polizei, and hence gained in October 1944 the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer...
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    According to Scherzer as Hauptmann of the Reserves. According to Scherzer as Generalmajor and commander of the Ergänzenden Einheiten und Schulen des XI. Fliegerkorps...
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    Group Vistula. Von Seemen lists Herbert Golz with the footnote: "Source: Generalmajor (Pol.) Ernst Rode, at the time chief of staff with the chief of the German...
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    p. 297. Görlitz 1989, p. 131. Schäfer 2006, p. 22. Müller 1987, p. 28. Geyer 1983, p. 122. Wheeler-Bennett 1967, p. 282. Wheeler-Bennett 1967, p. 284...
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  • the "Lower Danube" and "Upper Danube" regions; also a Generalmajor der Polizei 107099 4583151 Heinz Jost born 9 July 1904. SD officer and original Chief...
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    the war described them as "a herd of pigs") and the sector commander, Generalmajor Günter Rohr, Dirlewanger was recommended for the Knight's Cross of the...
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    (RSD) on 28 April 1945 after a court martial led by SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS Wilhelm Mohnke. The sentence was carried out the same...
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  • Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II Albert Buck (1895–1962), Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II Heinrich Eberbach (1895–1992), General...
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    decision to murder all the Jews in Kyiv was made by the military governor Generalmajor Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer...
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    SS-Totenkopf was summoned from the army reserve to fight in support of Generalmajor Erwin Rommel's 7th Panzer Division as they advanced toward the English...
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    the area near Warsaw and attached to the 4.Panzer-Division under then Generalmajor (brigadier general) Georg-Hans Reinhardt. The unit saw action preventing...
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    16 April 1943 — — Joachim Ziegler+ Waffen-SS 18-WSS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS Commander of the 11. SS-Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier...
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    Archives (Bestand RH 7). Busse had also nominated by teleprinter message Generalmajor Joachim von Siegroth on the 21 April. This teleprinter message can be...
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  • command staff of Einsatzgruppe A, headed by now SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Stahlecker. Lange was a Teilkommando (detachment) leader...
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    (overlaid on police green backing) worn by all police officers ranked Generalmajor and above. The distinction between the police and the SS had virtually...
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    (RSD) on 28 April 1945 after a court-martial led by SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS Wilhelm Mohnke. The sentence was carried out the same...
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