• SS Samalness was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was transferred to the British Ministry of War Transportation (MoWT)...
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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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    SS ([ˌalɡəˈmaɪ̯nə ˈɛs ˈɛs]; "General SS") was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed by the SS Main...
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    In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt], S-Z) or scharfes S (IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the /s/ phoneme in...
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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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    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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    Italian and English) SS Lazio. Archived 7 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Serie A (in Italian and English). SS Lazio at UEFA[dead link] SS Lazio at FIFA (archived)...
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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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    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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  • 2022 Indian Kannada-language crime action film written and directed by S.S.Sameer, making his debut. It features Arjun Sarja and Radhika Kumaraswamy along...
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    S. S. Rajamouli (redirect from SS Rajamouli)
    association with SS Rajamouli". Firstpost. Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022. Tetali, Sagar (22 March 2022). "SS Rajamouli...
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    SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer ([ˈoːbɐstˌɡʁʊpm̩fyːʁɐ]) was (from 1942 to 1945) the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of...
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    Winged Othala, is a Nazi symbol in the shape of an SS-rune, used by the Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS), during the 1930s and -40s, to symbolize several...
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  • Erhard Heiden (category Reichsführer-SS)
    of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary wing of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Detachment; SA"). He was appointed head of the SS, an elite subsection of...
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    The SS Medical Corps was a formation within the SS of professional doctors who provided medical services for the SS, including experiments on and the...
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    after SS-416 were Tench class; however, Trumpetfish (SS-425) and Tusk (SS-426) were completed as Balaos. This yields 10 cancelled Balao-class, SS-353-360...
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    SS-Aufseherin (pl. SS-Aufseherinnen; German: [ˈaʊ̯fˌzeːəʁɪn] ; lit. 'female SS overseer') was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration...
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  • The SS.12 and AS.12 are two variants of the same missile: SS for surface-to-surface and AS for air-to-surface. It was designed in 1955–1957 by Nord Aviation...
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  • Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany...
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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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    became an SS rank at that same time. An SA-Obersturmführer was typically a junior company commander in charge of fifty to a hundred men. Within the SS, the...
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    War II, the Waffen-SS recruited or conscripted significant numbers of non-Germans. Of a peak strength of 950,000 in 1944, the Waffen-SS consisted of some...
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    Alfred Wünnenberg (category SS-Obergruppenführer)
    1963) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS and the police of Nazi Germany. He commanded the SS Polizei Division between December 1941 and June...
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    The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) or SS Division Polizei was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded...
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  • Waffen-SS veterans in post-war Germany played a large role, through publications and political pressure, in the efforts to rehabilitate the reputation...
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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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    the SS, in particular between an Oberscharführer in the Allgemeine SS (general SS) and one holding the same position in the Waffen-SS (armed SS). The...
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    although the insignia remained the same. Sturmhauptführer remained an SA rank until 1939/40. Some of the most infamous SS members are known to have held the...
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    command staff. In 1932, the SS was reorganized and the SS-Gruppen were reformed into SS-Abschnitte. A Gruppenführer commanded an SS-Abschnitt while a new rank...
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