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    SS Alexander Majors was a Liberty ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. The ship was named in honor of Alexander Majors...
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    Alexander Majors (October 4, 1814 – January 13, 1900) was an American businessman, who along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell founded...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes; German pronunciation: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ; lit. 'Protection Squadron') was a major paramilitary organisation...
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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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    Grover Cleveland Alexander (February 26, 1887 – November 4, 1950), nicknamed "Old Pete" and "Alexander the Great", was an American Major League Baseball...
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  • 11 November 2019. "Sept-Iles". Google Maps. Retrieved 11 November 2019. S.S. Benjamin Warner Is Launched (Newsreel). Universal Newsreel. July 2, 1944...
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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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  • searchlight, finally crashing alongside the ship. SS Hobbs Victory's uncontrollable fires lead to her abandonment. SS Hobbs Victory exploded and sank the following...
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    During World War II, the Waffen-SS recruited significant numbers of non-Germans, both as volunteers and conscripts. In total some 500,000 non-Germans and...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Alexander Macomb
    SS Alexander Macomb was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Alexander Macomb, the Commanding General of...
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    The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. 'Armed SS') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations...
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    Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi...
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    assembled at the SS training camp at Neuhammer (now Świętoszów). On the base of the Kaminski unit, SS leaders planned to form an SS division – the 29th...
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    Hendrik Seyffardt (category Dutch Waffen-SS personnel killed in action)
    Netherlands, most notably as a figurehead of the Dutch Legion, a unit of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front. Seijffardt was the son of August Lodewijk Willem Seyffardt [nl]...
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    RSD-10 Pioneer (redirect from SS-20)
    designation 15Ж45 (15Zh45). Its NATO reporting name was SS-20 Saber. Its deployment was a major cause of NATO's 'Double-Track Decision', which led to the...
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    13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi...
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    known as the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (1944), or the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (German: 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS), or The Black...
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    The 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) was a foreign infantry division of the Waffen-SS that served alongside but was never formally...
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    Pitcher   C: Catcher 1B: First baseman 2B: Second baseman 3B: Third baseman SS: Shortstop  IF: Infielder OF: Outfielder UTIL: Utility player AL: American...
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    Tigers 211 (SS-Obersturmführer Jürgen Wessel), 212 (SS-Unterscharführer Balthasar Woll), 213 (SS-Hauptscharführer Hans Höflinger) and 214 (SS-Unterscharführer...
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    German Nazi SS concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes Alexander Ponomarenko (born 1964), Russian billionaire businessman Alexander Pope (1688–1744)...
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  • Alexander Dennis is a British bus manufacturing company based in Larbert, Scotland. The largest bus and coach manufacturer in the United Kingdom with...
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    Rudolf Höss (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
    or Hoess; German: [hœs]; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the...
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    The Alexander Palace (Russian: Александровский дворец, Alexandrovskiy dvorets) is a former imperial residence near the town of Tsarskoye Selo in Russia...
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    1936) SS-Oberführer Hans Loritz (31 March 1936 – 7 January 1939) SS-Hauptsturmführer Alexander Piorkowski (7 January 1939 – 2 January 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer...
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    SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. She was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845...
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    of the SS and German Police, Vol. 1, p. 154 *Matthaūs, Jūrgen. "Anti-Semitism as an Offer: The Function of Ideological indoctrination in the SS and Police...
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    Heinrich Himmler (category Reichsführer-SS)
    1923 and the SS in 1925, and in 1929 Adolf Hitler appointed him Reichsführer-SS. Over the next sixteen years, Himmler developed the SS from a 290-man...
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  • 9 SS-Sanitäts-Kompanien 9 SS-Feldlazarett SS-Krankenkraftwagenzug 9 SS-Feldpostamt 9 SS-Kriegsberichter-Zug 9 SS-Feldersatz-Battalion 9 SS-Ausbildungs-Battalion...
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  • Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson...
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