SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; lit. 'Death's Head Units') was the Schutzstaffel (SS) organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps...
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Dispositional Troops or SS-VT), which later became the Waffen-SS, and the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS Death's Head Units or SS-TV), which were in charge...
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been transferred to the Waffen-SS from concentration camp guard units, which were known collectively as SS-Totenkopfverbände; others were former members...
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Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
Waffen-SS consisted of the combat units of the SS, with a sworn allegiance to Hitler. A third component of the SS, the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; "Death's...
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members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), which ran the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. The following list of SS personnel gives the...
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linking of the SS-VT with the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) in 1938 raised important questions about Waffen-SS criminality, since the SS-TV were already...
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action troops), and the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; concentration camp service). During the Second World War, the Reichsführer-SS in effect held several...
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amalgamated into the Waffen-SS together with the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) and the combat units of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) prior to Operation Barbarossa...
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1937 the SS was divided into three branches: the Allgemeine-SS (General SS), the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), and the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) which...
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came from the SS-Totenkopfverbände. Formed in November 1943 when Volksdeutsche recruits were added to the Sturmbrigade Reichsführer SS, which was used...
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all members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, or SS-TV. Due to a 1941 personnel directive from the SS Personalhauptamt, members of the SS-TV were also considered...
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stake for the life of the whole community. SS-Totenkopfverbände ('Death's Head Units') was the Schutzstaffel (SS) organization responsible for administering...
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Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS rank)
the SS, the Totenkopfverbände or Death's Head units At about this same time, for similar reasons, the SS military formations (the Leibstandarte SS Adolf...
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Theodor Eicke (category SS and Police Leaders)
officially designated as the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), and the introduction of forced labour made the camps one of the SS's most powerful tools. This...
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Unterscharführer (redirect from SS-Unterscharführer)
the Schutzstaffel (SS) between 1934 and 1945. The SS rank was created after the Night of the Long Knives. That event caused an SS reorganisation and the...
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Austrian members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände and 80–120 Wachmänner ("watchmen") guards who had been trained at a special SS facility in the Trawniki...
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Nazi concentration camps (category SS Main Economic and Administrative Office)
Himmler. The camps under the IKL were guarded by members of the SS-Totenkopfverbande ("death's head"). The guards were housed in barracks adjacent to...
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Fritz Hartjenstein (category SS-Obersturmbannführer)
July 1905 – 20 October 1954) was a German SS functionary and war criminal. A member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, he served at various Nazi concentration...
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May, Wimmer feared for his own life and abandoned his post. The SS-Totenkopfverbände guards left the castle soon after, and the prisoners took control...
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Female guards in Nazi concentration camps (redirect from SS-Oberaufseherin)
Archived from the original on 12 August 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2014. SS-Totenkopfverbände Concentration camp personnel Aroneanu, Eugene, ed. Inside the Concentration...
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SS-Verfügungstruppe and SS-Totenkopfverbände in recognition of special merit. It was also awarded to officers who graduated from the SS-Junker Schools, the SS officer...
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Georg Bachmayer (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
Bachmayer (12 August 1913 – 8 May 1945) was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände who served as the Schutzhaftlagerführer,...
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camps were managed by the SS-Totenkopfverbände (the Skull Units, SS-TV), who operated extermination camps from 1941 as well. An SS anatomist, Johann Kremer...
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Standarte (Nazi Germany) (category Nazi SS)
All SS organizations – such as the Allegemeine-SS and the Reiter-SS, but also the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) and the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) were...
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Roland Puhr (category SS non-commissioned officers)
In 1939, Puhr joined the Nazi Party. He was then assigned to the SS-Totenkopfverbände and sent to work as a guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp....
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Allgemeine SS were used for compulsory recruitment drives by the SS-HA for both the Waffen-SS and the SS-Totenkopfverbände. The General SS members were...
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Nazi concentration camp system administered by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (SS-WVHA) was administratively separate from other forced-labor...
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re-Germanization, Himmler had provided the SS with a goal and purpose all of its own." He set about making his SS the focus of a "cult of the Teutons". Clergy...
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concentration camp and released in early September 1939 from the SS-Totenkopfverbände. The reason was Tamaschke's private life. Tamaschke, who was married...
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Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks. Also...
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