• title of SS and Police Leader (SS und Polizeiführer) designated a senior Nazi Party official who commanded various components of the SS and the German...
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    SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers. Ludolf von Alvensleben – commander of the SS and police in Crimea and commander of the Selbstschutz (self-defense) of the Reichsgau...
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  • This register of SS leaders in general's rank includes the members of the Allgemeine SS and Waffen-SS, in line with the appropriate SS seniority list (Dienstaltersliste...
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    headquarters. SS- und Polizeiführer: Translated as "SS and police leader", these were some of the most powerful men in the SS, commanding all SS, Gestapo,...
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    Herbert Böttcher (category SS and Police Leaders)
    and chief of police of Memel (today, Klaipėda) and Kassel. He was also an SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of police who served as the last SS and Police...
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    Jürgen Stroop (category SS-Gruppenführer)
    – 6 March 1952) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and Greece. He led the suppression...
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  • Most often, Allgemeine SS units in occupied territories were "paper commands", formed under the authority of an SS and Police Leader (who would serve as...
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  • SS-Brigadeführer and officer in the Waffen-SS. He held important SS commands in several major cities of Nazi Germany and served as an SS and Police Leader...
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  • Christoph Diehm (category SS and Police Leaders)
    1960) was a German SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS and police, who served as the SS and Police Leader in Ukraine and Poland during the...
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    Holocaust-related repressions in areas annexed from Poland, and in Montenegro where he served as the SS and Police Leader (SSPF). Fiedler, born to a working-class family...
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  • Karl Zech (category SS and Police Leaders)
    – 1 April 1944) was a German SS-Gruppenführer and Police President of Essen who served as the first SS and Police Leader of Krakau (today, Kraków) during...
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    Richard Hildebrandt (category SS and Police Leaders)
    a German Nazi politician and SS-Obergruppenführer. During the Second World War, he served as a Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in Nazi-occupied Poland...
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    rank of SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer was created. Standard practice for SS generals serving as an SS and police leader, as well as those senior SS personnel...
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  • 1925 and 1945, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members...
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    Walter Schimana (category SS and Police Leaders)
    in the German SS during the Nazi era. He was SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union in 1942 and Higher SS and Police Leader in occupied Greece...
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    Ludolf Jakob von Alvensleben (category SS and Police Leaders)
    systematically murder the Jews of Europe. Alvensleben ended the war as the SS and Police Leader (SSPF) for Adria-West in Northern Italy/South Tyrol. He avoided prosecution...
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    Ludolf von Alvensleben (category SS and Police Leaders)
    Schutzstaffel (SS) functionary of Nazi Germany. He held positions of SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union, and was indicted for...
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    Carl Oberg (category SS and Police Leaders)
    January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served as Senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in occupied France, from May...
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    Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau (category SS and Police Leaders)
    German Nazi SS-Brigadeführer and Police President in several German cities. During the Second World War, he served as the SS and Police Leader in Istria...
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    Beevor (2002) Berlin: The Downfall 1945, p. 383 Miller (2006) Leaders of the SS and German Police, Vol. 1, p. 154 *Matthaūs, Jūrgen. "Anti-Semitism as an Offer:...
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    Paul Otto Geibel (category SS and Police Leaders)
    12 November 1966) was a German SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of police who served as the last SS and Police Leader (SSPF) "Warsaw" during the Second...
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    1980) was a German Nazi SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of police. During the Second World War he served as the SS and Police Leader in Nikolajew (today...
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  • Julian Scherner (category SS and Police Leaders)
    Nazi Party official and a high-ranking member in the SS of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he served as the SS and Police Leader of Kraków, Germany-occupied...
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  • Günther Merk (category SS and Police Leaders)
    was a German lawyer and SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of police. During the Second World War he served as the SS and Police Leader in the Charkow region...
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    Otto Winkelmann (category SS and Police Leaders)
    1977) was a German police official, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS who served as the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in Hungary...
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    Collar and shoulder insignia in 1934 Reichsführer-SS (German: [ˈʁaɪçsˌfyːʁɐ ˌʔɛsˈʔɛs] , lit. 'Reich Leader-SS') was a special title and rank that existed...
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    Friedrich Jeckeln (category SS and Police Leaders)
    1895 – 3 February 1946) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World...
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    Fritz Katzmann (category SS and Police Leaders)
    Friedrich Katzmann, (6 May 1906 – 19 September 1957) was a German SS and Police Leader during the Nazi era. He perpetrated genocide in the cities of Kattowitz...
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  • Arpad Wigand (category SS and Police Leaders)
    Nazi German war criminal with the rank of SS-Oberführer who served as the SS and Police Leader in Warsaw (SS-und Polizeiführer (SSPF) from 4 August 1941...
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  • Theobald Thier (category SS and Police Leaders)
    1949) was a German SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of police who served as an SS and police leader (SSPF) in southern Russia and the General Government...
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