Search results for "Waffen SS" - New World Encyclopedia
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- with his belated disclosure of Waffen-SS service during the final ... and in November 1944 into the Waffen-SS. Grass saw combat with ...19 KB (2,792 words) - 17:34, 12 July 2023
- SS and Sturmbannführer (Major) in the Waffen SS; and Chief Administrative ... (Lieutenant General) in the Waffen SS; Reich Commissioner for ...23 KB (3,287 words) - 16:13, 11 November 2021
- which would later become known as the Armed SS (Waffen-SS). ... they tended to surrender eagerly. Waffen SS recruitment in Western ...23 KB (3,561 words) - 16:24, 15 May 2024
- June 1, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant ... as a Reserve Untersturmführer in the Waffen-SS and was now being ordered ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- out the massacre, supported by members of a Waffen-SS battalion. Units of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, under the general command of Friedrich ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- teenage soldier's experiences in the Waffen SS at the end of World War II. ... Continuatio prima, s.a. 1213, MGH SS XXIV 17-18,") The Crusades: ...16 KB (2,418 words) - 15:33, 10 December 2023
- during the war bribing and paying off the SS, eventually even risking his ... his evenings entertaining many of the local SS and Wehrmacht officers, cultivating ...27 KB (4,326 words) - 04:39, 18 November 2022
- 1947, states that von Braun joined the Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel) horseback ... been often disputed because in 1940, the Waffen-SS had shown no interest in ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- Riefenstahl was photographed wearing a Waffen-SS uniform and a pistol on ... and other top men of both the Brownshirt and SS branches of NSDAP, intercut ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
- incorporated the senior formation of the Waffen-SS, the 1st SS Panzer Division ... men and 600 vehicles under the command of Waffen-SS Colonel Jochen Peiper, ...55 KB (8,725 words) - 01:44, 26 September 2023
- German army forces, Hitler Youth, and the Waffen SS against the Red Army. This ... created their own personal party army, the Waffen-SS. The government ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- controlled. This included units of the Waffen-SS and the Gestapo who specialized ... unit, representing neither an Axis nor a Waffen-SS volunteer formation, but ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- the border, Heinrich Himmler and a few SS officers landed in Vienna to ... past, notably calling members of the Waffen-SS "men of honor." ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- conflict, including in the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS, most of them conscripted by the occupying Nazi and Soviet authorities. Refusal to join the ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- to the Wehrmacht, and later transferred to the Waffen SS. Hartog, 2001, 159-160. Its members swore the following allegiance to Adolf Hitler and ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- Russian division formerly in service of the Waffen SS, had revolted against the Nazi occupants. That same day, General Patton's 150,000-strong American ...35 KB (5,518 words) - 00:31, 12 April 2023
- [[Image:Near Stalingrad.jpg|thumb|250px|German Waffen-SS soldiers celebrating a success near Stalingrad, 1942]] According to the German documentary ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- siege to Budapest, which was defended by German Waffen-SS and Hungarian forces. It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war. ;Warsaw uprising ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
