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SS Executor may refer to one of these ships built for or owned by American Export Lines : SS Executor (1940) (MC hull number 104, Type C3-E), built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding ( Quincy, Massachusetts ); acquired by the United States Navy as cargo ship USS Almaack (AKA-10); sold for commercial service in 1946; scrapped in 1970. SS Executor (1945 ...
List of Waffen-SS divisions. All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. [1] Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally recruited from those groups. Many of the higher-numbered units were divisions in name only, being in reality only small battlegroups ( Kampfgruppen ).
The 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) was a mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, an armed branch of the German Nazi Party that served alongside but was never formally part of the Wehrmacht during World War II. At the post-war Nuremberg trials, the Waffen-SS was declared to be a criminal organisation due to ...
foreign volunteers and conscripts. During World War II, the Waffen-SS recruited significant numbers of non-Germans, both as volunteers and conscripts. In total some 500,000 non-Germans and ethnic Germans from outside Germany, mostly from German-occupied Europe, were recruited between 1940 and 1945. [1]
18th SS Freiwilligen Panzergrenadier Division ''Horst Wessel''. 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) 21st Waffen Gebirgs Division of the SS ''Skanderbeg'' (1st Albanian) 22nd SS Freiwilligen Cavalry Division ''Maria Theresia''.
Walter Heck was a German graphic designer who created the SS double ' Siegrune ' symbol for the Schutzstaffel (SS), the elite corps of the Nazi Party, in 1929, the runic emblem of the Sturmabteilung (SA), and co-designed the all-black SS uniform in 1932. He was a company commander in SA, and later joined the SS.
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) (German: 14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (galizische Nr. 1); Ukrainian: 14-та гренадерська дивізія СС «Галичина», romanized: 14-ta hrenaderska dyviziia SS "Galychyna"), commonly referred to as the Galicia Division, was a World War II infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the military wing of the ...
SS Court Main Office. / 48.1430750°N 11.5661389°E / 48.1430750; 11.5661389. The SS Court Main Office ( German: Hauptamt SS-Gericht) - one of the 12 SS main departments - was the legal department of the SS in Nazi Germany. It was responsible for formulating the laws and codes for the SS and various other groups of the police ...