The V SS Mountain Corps was a Waffen-SS formation that existed in the later periods of World War II. The corps fought against Yugoslav Partisans in the...
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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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Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) (German: IX. Waffen-Gebirgskorps der SS (Kroatisches)), later simply IX SS Mountain Corps, was a Waffen-SS corps during World...
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elements to newly forming XXXXIX. Gebirgskorps, and on 1 November, they re-designated the Korps name to XVIII. Gebirgskorps. XVIII Armeekorps General der...
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List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (P) (redirect from Heinrich Petersen (SS officer))
Scherzer as SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police and Waffen-SS and commanding general of the IX. Waffen-Gebirgs-Armeekorps of the SS. According...
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XXXXIX Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht) (redirect from XXXXIX. Gebirgskorps)
Waffen–SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945 [Units and Troops of the German Military and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945] (in German). Vol. 5: Die...
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List of German brigades in World War II (redirect from List of Waffen-SS brigades)
all brigade-level military formations of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS during World War II. Brigades, in German army parlance prior to 1944, generally...
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between 16 and 19 April 1945 and approved by the commander of the IV. SS-Korps Herbert Otto Gille. Missing is the approval from the 6. Armee and Heeresgruppe...
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List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Bn–Bz) (redirect from Hermann Buchner (SS officer))
(Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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XXXVI Mountain Corps (Wehrmacht) (redirect from XXXVI Gebirgskorps)
there to Murmansk. In November 1941 the corps was renamed the XXXVI Gebirgskorps (Mountain Corps). In late 1944 the corps had to fight its former allies...
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Kalmücken-Kavallerie-Korps (Kalmykian volunteers) Tatar Legion SS-Waffengruppe Idel-Ural (Turkic volunteers from Volga/Ural area) Waffen-Gebirgs-Brigade der SS (Tatar...
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(army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (air force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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(Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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(Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Schu–Sz) (redirect from Kurt Schumacher (SS officer))
(Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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(Generalmajor Werner Kempf) Panzer-Regiment 7 SS-Standard (mot.) "Deutschland" SS-Artillerie-Standart/SS-TV Grenzschutzabschnittskommando 15 (Generalmajor...
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from the Waffen-SS. When withdrawing from the Western Front, elements of the III. Flak-Korps were tasked with protecting the 6th SS Panzer Army while...
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Gustav Fehn (21 February 1892 – 5 June 1945) was a German general during World War II. Fehn served in the Afrika Korps from November 1942 to January 1943...
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d'Alquen – Chief editor of the SS official newspaper, Das Schwarze Korps ("The Black Corps"), and commander of the SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Ludolf von...
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commander of the 3. Gebirgs-Division (9 May 1940) 1st Oak Leaves as Generalleutnant and commanding general of the Gebirgs-Korps Norwegen (19 July 1940)...
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(Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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Karl von Oberkamp (category SS-Brigadeführer)
German Waffen-SS commander and war criminal during World War II. During his SS career, he commanded the SS Division Prinz Eugen, the SS Division Nibelungen...
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marsch!" – command to initiate a Sprung SS – see Schutzstaffel. SS-TV – SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS Death's Head Units). SS-Verfügungstruppen – "units available"...
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List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (Hn–Hz) (redirect from Ludwig Hoffmann (Waffen-SS))
(Army), Kriegsmarine (Navy) and Luftwaffe (Air Force)—as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD—Reich Labour Service) and the Volkssturm (German...
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the Germans, by April 1945 and it was operating under the V SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgskorps, who fought the last battle against the Red Army in Germany,...
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Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen...
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Republic, Soviet Union against six high ranking Wehrmacht officers, Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer Friedrich Jeckeln and SA-Standartenführer Alexander Boecking...
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The army was positioned as follows: XIX Mountain Corps (German: XIX Gebirgskorps) in the far-northern Petsamo area beside the Arctic Ocean. XXXVI Mountain...
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forces of Nazi Germany. During World War II, 457 servicemen of the Waffen-SS, including volunteers and conscripts from Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia...
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of the 1. Gebirgs-Division Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler Hannes Heer, Einübung in den Holocaust: Lemberg Juni/Juli 1941; in: ZfG 5/2001 Hannes...
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