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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Balao-class submarine (redirect from USS Dugong (SS-353))
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-Oberst-Gruppenführer ([ˈoːbɐstˌɡʁʊpm̩fyːʁɐ]) was (from 1942 to 1945) the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of...
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Obersturmführer (redirect from SS-Obersturmführer)
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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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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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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Otto Skorzeny (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
(12 June 1908 – 5 July 1975) was an Austrian-born German SS-Standartenführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a...
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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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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 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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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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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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Sicherheitsdienst (redirect from Sicherheitsdienst Reichsführer-SS)
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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List of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes (redirect from SS Hiram W. Sibley)
Worldpress Blog. 26 March 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2017. Shipwrecks - SS Milwaukee "Shipwrecks". Retrieved 4 April 2011. "Chequamegon". Historical...
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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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Hauptsturmführer (redirect from SS-Hauptsturmführer)
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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Gegenseitigkeit der Angehörigen der ehemaligen Waffen-SS, lit. 'Mutual aid association of former Waffen-SS members') was a lobby group and a denialist veterans'...
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Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (German: Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a Waffen-SS unit formed in September 1944 from...
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Oberscharführer (redirect from SS-Oberscharführer)
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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