• Empire Defender was a 5,649 GRT cargo steamship that was built in 1910 as Freienfels by Joh. C. Tecklenborg in Geestemünde, Germany. She was seized by...
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  • with SS Theomitor at 57°58′N 20°38′W / 57.967°N 20.633°W / 57.967; -20.633. Taken in tow by a Royal Navy ship but sank on 22 November 1941. Empire Doreen...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    Schutzstaffel (German: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ; lit. 'Protection Squadron'; SS; also stylised with SS runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf...
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    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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    Empire Endurance was a 8,514 GRT steam cargo liner that was built in 1928 as Alster by Deschimag Werk Vulkan, Hamburg, Germany for the shipping company...
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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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    Arnold. "SS Empire Attendant (sic)". Convoy OS.33. Don Kindell, Convoyweb. Retrieved 19 January 2008. McGee, Billy. "Crew of the SS Empire Attendant"...
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  • Krushborg Robeast: Monster Vultura: Astronomax: Drule Defender Prime: Drule Defender Sigma: Drule Defender Gamma: Target Master Robeast: Terrormax Elite-Beast...
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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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    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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    The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (German: 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (galizische Nr. 1); Ukrainian: 14-та гренадерська...
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    Wehrbauer (category Nazi SS)
    Reichskommissariats and given to the custody of the Reichsführer-SS, who was to name an SS and Police Leader (German: SS- und Polizeiführer) for the region and also to...
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    Joachim Peiper (category SS-Standartenführer)
    Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) colonel, convicted war criminal and car salesman. During the Second World...
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    the 2.SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (19 December 1944), or the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (German: 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS), or...
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    part of the Ottoman Empire. It was the first non-Germanic Waffen-SS division, and its formation marked the expansion of the Waffen-SS into a multi-ethnic...
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    The Galactic Empire, also known simply as the Empire, is a fictional autocracy featured in the Star Wars franchise. Introduced in the 1977 film Star Wars...
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    December 1961) was an SS commander and convicted war criminal of Nazi Germany. He served in the Waffen-SS (the combat branch of the SS) and participated in...
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    the SS (1st Belarusian), originally called the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian), was a short-lived Nazi Germany Waffen-SS mechanized...
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    Heinrich Himmler (category Reichsführer-SS)
    leader who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful people...
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    Paul Hausser (category SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer)
    joined the SS and was instrumental in forming the Waffen-SS. During World War II, he rose to the level of army group commander. He led Waffen-SS troops in...
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    SS Empire Cowper SS Empire Cromwell SS Empire Crossbill SS Empire Dabchick HMS Empire Dace MV Empire Dawn MV Empire Day SS Empire Defender SS Empire Dell...
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    Hans Kammler (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – after October 1945) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret V-weapons...
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    SS Empire Energy was a cargo steamship. She was built in Germany in 1923 as Grete for small German tramp shipping company. In 1934 the Italian shipping...
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    The French SS Volunteer Assault Brigade (German: Französische S.S. Freiwilligen Sturmbrigade), commonly referred to as the Brigade Frankreich (lit. 'Brigade...
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    Waffen-SS, in units of the SS Division Wiking. Most of these volunteers served as motorized infantry in the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS (German:...
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    Hermann Fegelein (category SS-Gruppenführer)
    October 1906 – 28 April 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. He was a member of Adolf Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law...
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  • Wilhelm Mohnke (category SS-Brigadeführer)
    military officer who was one of the original members of the Schutzstaffel SS-Stabswache Berlin (Staff Guard Berlin) formed in March 1933. Mohnke, who had...
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    Jürgen Stroop (category SS-Gruppenführer)
    1895 – 6 March 1952) was a German SS commander and perpetrator of the Holocaust during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland...
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    Ahnenerbe (redirect from SS Ahnenerbe)
    in Nazi Germany in 1935. Established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler in July 1, 1935 as an SS appendage devoted to promoting racial theories espoused...
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    Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld (category SS-Gruppenführer)
    Waffen-SS. During the Nazi era he held a number of important staff and field command positions. During the Second World War, he commanded the 2 SS Infantry...
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