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Nazi Perpetrators: The SS (Schutzstaffel)

Reference

  • 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
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