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    other armies. The rank of Unterscharführer was created from the SA rank of Scharführer. After 1934, an SS-Unterscharführer and SA-Scharführer were considered...
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    Thun, SS Unterscharführer: Life imprisonment Wilhelm Vogler, SS Hauptsturmführer: 15 years imprisonment Eduard Zerlin, SS Unterscharführer: 12 years...
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    Bruß (or Bruss) (b. 1920, former SS-Unterscharführer) Alfred Mathias Concina (b. 1919, former SS-Unterscharführer) Ludwig Göring (or Goring) (b. 1923...
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    structure. At that time, the old rank of SS-Scharführer became known as SS-Unterscharführer with the title of SS-Scharführer becoming equivalent to an SA-Oberscharführer...
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    restructure of SS ranks made Rottenführer junior to the new rank of SS-Unterscharführer, although in the SA the rank continued to rate immediately below that...
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  • trustee prisoners. Camp labor section SS-Unterscharführer Heinrich Oppelt (Director of camp labor) SS-Unterscharführer Heinrich Schoppe (Labor service NCO)...
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  • rank Truppführer renamed Oberscharführer SS rank Scharführer renamed Unterscharführer SS rank Haupttruppführer renamed Sturmscharführer Snyder, Dr. Louis...
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    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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    to their rank. For instance, an Unterscharführer in the foreign legions would be referred to as Waffen-Unterscharführer whereas a regular SS member would...
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    Kirschner SS-Unterscharführer Camp administration Death by hanging (executed on 24 January 1948) 15 Hans Schumacher SS-Unterscharführer Manager of camp...
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  • light platoon led by Michael Wittmann. After being promoted to SS-Unterscharführer on 20 January 1943, Staudegger fought as a tank commander in the Battle...
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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 Auschwitz:...
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    disagreement about how many were gassed in Auschwitz I. Perry Broad, an SS-Unterscharführer, wrote that "transport after transport vanished in the Auschwitz [I]...
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    retreating from the area. The place took its name from the surname of Unterscharführer Albert Hujar (also Huyar) who committed and directed the executions...
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    Lager I included SS-Unterscharführer Josef Vallaster, SS-Oberscharführer Siegfried Graetschus, Sturmführer Ivan Klatt, SS-Unterscharführer Friedrich Gaulstich...
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  • subjected to forced labour. The commanders of the subcamp were SS-Unterscharführer Hermann Kleiss (in September–October 1944), SS-Oberscharführer Johann...
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    Adolf Theuer (sometimes given as Teuer) was a Sudeten German SS-Unterscharführer and gas chamber mass murderer at Auschwitz concentration camp during the...
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  • station. After returning to the telephone exchange, Misch later recalled Unterscharführer Retzbach proclaiming "So they're burning the boss now!" Retzbach asked...
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  • Vaulot (1 June 1923 – 2 May 1945) was a Frenchman with the rank of Unterscharführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II, who was awarded the Knight's...
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    1998 Otto Richard Horn SS-Unterscharführer Totenlager – Corpse detail Acquitted Died in 1999 Erwin Lambert SS-Unterscharführer Built Large Gas Chambers...
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    concentration camp from April 1942 to 1945. He reached the rank of SS-Unterscharführer while working as a translator and stenographer in the camp headquarters...
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  • Otto Hantke (21 January 1907 – 1986) was a German SS-Unterscharführer, convicted murderer, and war criminal in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust...
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  • Groening (1919-1996), Filmmaker Oskar Gröning (1921–2018), German SS-Unterscharführer and Auschwitz concentration camp worker Peter Gröning (born 1939),...
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    expectations of Treblinka's ability to "process" these prisoners. SS-Unterscharführer Willi Mentz, an SS officer at Treblinka, testified of Eberl's leadership:...
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  • Unverhau SS-Unterscharführer Participating in the mass murder of approximately 72,000 Jews Acquitted Acquitted Robert Jührs SS-Unterscharführer Participating...
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    director, SS-Hauptscharführer Bernhard Walter, and deputy director, SS-Unterscharführer Ernst Hofmann, the Erkennungsdienst took the 193 photographs that came...
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    already dead. The rest were marched naked to the gas chambers, where: Unterscharführer Hackenholt was making great efforts to get the engine running. But...
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    nicknamed 'Reg', was a British-born New Zealand soldier who became an Unterscharführer in the German Waffen-SS British Free Corps during the Second World...
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    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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    the Corps included Thomas Haller Cooper (although he was actually an Unterscharführer in the Waffen-SS proper), Roy Courlander, Edwin Barnard Martin, Frank...
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