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Nazi Perpetrators: The SS (Schutzstaffel)
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Background & Overview
ODESSA
Primary Source Documents
Duties During Operation Barbarossa
(March 1941)
Heydrich’s Guidelines for SS Leaders
(July 1941)
Nature & Tasks of the SS
(January 1937)
Report of the SS in Hanover
(August 1935)
SS Secrecy Pledge
(July 1942)
Statistics on the Final Solution
(March 1943)
Testimonies of SS Men on Gassing of Prisoners
Views on the Jewish Question
(November 1938)
SS Orders Expulsion of Soviet Jews From Germany
(January 5, 1938)
Figureheads
Erich von dem Bach
Joseph Berchtold
Gottlob Berger
Wilhelm Frick
Kurt Gerstein
Erhard Heiden
Heinrich Himmler
Oswald Pohl
Walter Rauff
Julius Schreck
Ludolf von Alvensleben
SS Units
6th Mountain Division Nord
11th Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
33rd Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne
British Free Corps
Germanic-SS
SS-Verfügungstruppe
Totenkopfverbände
(Death’s Head Formations)
Totenkopfring
Waffen-SS
SS Ranks
Ranks & Western Equivalents
Anwärter
Bewerber
Junker
Mann
Obermann
Oberscharführer
Reichsführer
Rottenführer
Scharführer
Stabsscharführer
Staffelführer
Strumscharführer
Sturmführer
Sturmhauptführer
Unterscharführer