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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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  • The III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps (III. (germanisches) SS-Panzerkorps) was a Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on the Eastern Front during World...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    opened up Waffen-SS recruiting to ethnic Germans that were not German citizens. In March 1941, the SS Main Office established the Germanische Leitstelle (Germanic...
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    Felix Steiner (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    German SS commander during the Nazi era. During World War II, he served in the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the SS, and commanded several SS divisions...
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    the Allgemeine SS controlled the Germanic SS (Germanische SS), which were collaborationist organizations modeled after the Allgemeine SS in several Western...
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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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  • Amt Germanische Leitstelle (Germanic Control) Amt Germanische Ergänzung (Germanic Recruitment) Amt Germanische Erziehung (Germanic Education) The SS-HA...
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    se/aventyret-lockade-svenskar-till-ss Of particular note was Swiss-born SS Colonel Hans Riedweg, the de facto leader of the Germanische Leitstelle's Germanic recruits...
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    During World War II, Germanische Leitstelle was a department of the SS-Hauptamt under the command of Obergruppenführer Gottlob Berger. It oversaw the...
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    populations. Himmler further attempted to expand the SS into Switzerland, with the formation of the Germanische SS Schweiz in 1942. A document named Aktion S,...
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    Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    German SS commander during the Nazi era. Reaching the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, he commanded the SS Division Totenkopf, SS Division Nord, SS Division...
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  • Berlin. When war came, with need for new recruits, the SS-Leitheft was also published at the Germanische Leitstelle in Oslo, Norway in Norwegian; Copenhagen...
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    (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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  • Georg Keppler (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    high-ranking Waffen-SS commander during World War II. He commanded the SS Division Das Reich, SS Division Totenkopf, I SS Panzer Corps, III SS Panzer Corps and...
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    (Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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  • Deutschgläubige Gemeinschaft (1911), the Germanenorden (1912) and the Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft (1907). The contemporary term Deutschgläubig for...
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    Ahnenerbe (redirect from SS Ahnenerbe)
    Schutzstaffel (SS) pseudoscientific organization which was active in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. It was established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler...
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  • these articles and entitled Germanisches Leben was published by Koehler & Amelung of Leipzig with the approval of the SS and Reich Government in 1937...
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  • Volunteers: the 5. SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking" Wilhelm Tieke [de] (2001): Tragedy of the Faithful: a History of the III. (Germanisches) SS-Panzer-Korps Otto...
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    During or shortly after World War II, 457 German servicemen of the Waffen-SS, including volunteers from Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary...
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    Wewelsburg (category Nazi SS)
    School, House Wewelsburg"). The focus of the school was to become: "Germanische Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Volkstumskunde u. a. als Rüstzeug zur...
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    portraying Hitler as an animal lover. Dogs like Blondi were coveted as "germanische Urhunde", being close to the wolf, and became very fashionable during...
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    (/ˈtuːlə/; German: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist...
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  • Wüst Indogermanisch-germanische Sprach- und Kullturwissenschaft (Indogermanic-Germanic Language and Cultural Studies) Germanische Kulturwissenschaft und...
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    non-Germans who were part of the Germanic-SS and Waffen-SS. Known as the Germanic Proficiency Runes (German: Germanische Leistungsrune), this award was issued...
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    disappointment for the Nazi administration.[citation needed] In January 1943 the SS Germanische Leitstelle in occupied Zakopane in the heartland of the Tatra mountains...
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  • Bodleian quarterly record 3 (1923), p.96 Lauth, Franz Joseph (1857). Das germanische Runen-Fudark, aus den Quellen kritisch erschlossen. München: Lauth. p...
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  • that Germany may be a world power; to found the Germanic World Empire (Germanisches Weltreich). Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, personal diaries...
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    Wilhelm Tieke (2001). Tragedy of the faithful: a history of the III. (germanisches) SS-Panzer-Korps. Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz Publishing. David M. Glantz...
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    were denaturalized, some of whom were very old. In January 1943 the SS Germanische Leitstelle in occupied Zakopane in the heartland of the Tatra mountains...
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