Several steamships have borne the name Main: SS Main (1868) was a 3,087-ton single-screw ocean liner built in 1868 by Caird & Co., Greenock. New compound...
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The SS Court Main Office (German: Hauptamt SS-Gericht) - one of the 12 SS main departments - was the legal department of the SS in Nazi Germany. It was...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, mass surveillance, and state terrorism within Germany and German-occupied Europe. The two main constituent...
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by the SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt). The Allgemeine SS was officially established in the autumn of 1934 to distinguish its members from the SS-Verfügungstruppe...
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SS Main, list of steamships with this name Main (A515), a modern German replenishment ship Short for mainsail Main (cigarette), a European brand Main...
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The SS Main Office (German: SS-Hauptamt; SS-HA) was the central command office of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in Nazi Germany until 1940. The office traces...
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The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (German: SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt; SS-WVHA) was a Nazi organization responsible for managing...
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The SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS, RuSHA) was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial purity...
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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 SS Führungshauptamt (English: SS Leadership Main Office or SS Management Head Office) (SS-FHA) was the operational headquarters of the SS during the...
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Nazi concentration camps (redirect from Main camp)
concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Initially...
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Pohl trial (redirect from Trial of SS WVHA members)
between 1947 and 1948. The accused were SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl and 17 other SS officers employed by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office...
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Units and commands of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS-Abschnitt)
in order to give senior SS officers in occupation commands a command billet within the General-SS. SS-Oberabschnitt ("SS-Main District"): This division...
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of Waffen-SS units. I SS Panzer Corps II SS Panzer Corps III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps IV SS Panzer Corps (formerly VII SS Panzer Corps) V SS Mountain...
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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rank)
The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) served to distinguish its Nazi paramilitary ranks between 1925 and 1945 from the ranks of the Wehrmacht...
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This register of SS leaders in general's rank includes the members of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS, in line with the appropriate SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste...
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Oswald Pohl (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era. As the head of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office and the head...
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SS Main was an ocean liner of the Rhein class of North German Lloyd. She was in service on the route from Bremen to Baltimore from her 1900 launch until...
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SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; lit. 'SS Death's Head Units' or 'SS Death's Head Battalions') was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel...
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See "Waffen-SS divisions" for the Waffen-SS order of battle The Allgemeine-SS regional commands were titled SS-Oberabschnitte (SS Main Districts) and first...
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The SS Personnel Main Office (German: SS Personalhauptamt) was established on 1 June 1939 from the personnel department in Himmler's personal staff. It...
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Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was...
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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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Concentration Camps Inspectorate (category SS Main Economic and Administrative Office)
SS-Totenkopfstandarten", after Eicke's position in the SS. It was later integrated into the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office as "Amt D". SS-Oberführer...
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second Reichsführer-SS from 1926 to 1927. Gottlob Berger – Chief of staff for the Waffen-SS and head of the SS Main Office. He was an SS-Obergruppenführer...
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Gottlob Berger (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS (lieutenant general) and was the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel (SS) recruiting...
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August Heissmeyer (category SS and police leaders)
rose to become an SS-Obergruppenführer in the Schutzstaffel (SS). He held several major commands, including as the chief of the SS Main Office from 1935...
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Leaders (SS-Oberabschnitt Führer); by 1936, the Reichsführer-SS was head of the three main SS branches: the Allgemeine SS, SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT; political...
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Hans Kammler (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
department at the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA), Kammler had already been advising the SS Race and Settlement Main Office as a consultant...
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Richard Baer (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
Richard Baer (9 September 1911 – 17 June 1963) was a German SS officer who, among other assignments, was the final commandant of Auschwitz I concentration...
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