The most controversial rumors circulate about the "elite" security units of the Nazi Party, created by personal order of Hitler.
I propose to figure out what the SS and their troops - "Waffen - SS" were.

Long before coming to power, in April 1925, Hitler instructed one of the former SA stormtroopers, Julius Schreck, to form a new personal guard. On September 21, 1925, Shrek issued a circular that ordered all local NSDAP organizations to create SS units, consisting of 10 local units, and in Berlin - 20 people.
These originally small units were part of the SA until 1934. In November 1926, the post of Reichsfuehrer SS was introduced and the first to be occupied by the commander of the Adolf Hitler strike force, Josef Berchtold.

In order to raise the prestige of the SS among party members, in 1926 at the NSDAP congress in Weimar, Hitler solemnly handed them the so-called "banner of blood".

January 6, 1929 at the head of the SS was put Heinrich Himmler , under which the personnel of the SS began to increase rapidly: if in January 1929 it numbered only 280 people, then by May 1933 there were already 52 thousand SS men. And by the end of 1938, the number of SS reached 238,159 people.

The growth in the number of the SS was accompanied by the expansion of the SD department - the security service, which was headed by Reinhard Heydrich .

The increase in the numbers of the SS and their influence greatly worried the SA leaders. Hitler resolved this issue in favor of the SS: "No SA commander has the right to give orders to the SS." A new organizational structure of the SS was introduced: the lowest cell was a squad (ball) - 8 people under the command of a Scharführer. Three branches made up a detachment (troupe), three troupe - an assault (70-120 people), led by the Obersturmführer. Three assaults were made up of the Sturmbann (250-600 men), led by the Sturmbannführer. Three or four Sturmbanne formed the standard (1000-3000 people), headed by the Standartenführer (thus everyone's favorite Standenführer von Stirlitz , he is a Soviet intelligence agent Isaev, he is a great actor Tikhonov was not such a big "bump" in the SS, just a colonel in translation into a language understandable to everyone).

Several standards made up the Abshnit, which was close in number to the brigade. Well, a few Abshnites formed a group, that is, a division headed by the Gruppenfuehrer. So, Heinrich Müller , being the head of the Gestapo, he had the title of SS Gruppenfuehrer. By the way, the real Müller was completely different from the cinematic “Müller”, superbly played by Bronev.
In accordance with Hitler's order of November 7, 1930, the SS were to become an instrument of strengthening the unity of the party, submission to the will and orders of the Fuhrer of all party links and authorities. However, the split between the Nazis and the socialists within the NSDAP (Ernst Rohm, Gregor and Otto Strasser) was constantly growing. It even went as far as clashes between SA and SS militants.
In March 1930, having received information from Himmler about the prevention of an assassination attempt on Hitler, the Fuehrer ordered him to form a personal security unit for himself, which later received the name "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler". In addition, Himmler formed in different provinces of the Reich new SS units called the Sonderkommando-SS, whose task was to protect the highest local authorities and fight the opponents of the Nazi regime.
SS units were the main acting force in the elimination of SA leaders and supporters Ernest Rohm during the famous "Night of the Long Knives" on June 30, 1934

On July 20, 1934, Hitler issued an order: "Considering the outstanding services of the SS forces, especially during the events of June 30, 1934, I elevate the SS to the rank of an independent organization within the NSDAP." From that moment on, the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, obeyed only Hitler and no one else.

Now he could create SS military units. After June 30, 1934, a wide formation of marching and special units began, which soon turned into Hitler's personal army, as well as the creation of regiments "Dead Head" , who "became famous" for their "work" in concentration camps.

Replenishment of the ranks of the SS went through special schools, which appeared in 1933, selected "full-fledged" in racial terms boys and young men from "Hitler Youth" between the ages of 10 and 18. For example, these are:

and at the end of the war - even these:

On April 20, Hitler's birthday, the SS candidates took the oath at midnight by torchlight. Here is its full text:
"I swear to you, Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich, to be faithful and courageous. I swear to you and your appointed chiefs to obey unquestioningly until my death. God help me!"

At the age of 25 to 30, a member of the SS had to start a family, and the newlyweds were required to undergo a medical examination by a doctor of the SS sanitary service and submit documents confirming their racial purity. Church marriage was replaced by a developed ceremony with the participation of the commander of the local SS organization. The baptism of a newborn in the SS family was a ceremony of naming a baby in front of a portrait of Hitler, the Mein Kampf book and the swastika sign.

In the SS troops, which began to be created in 1933, at first the same principle of "blood rules" operated, which demanded "racial purity" from the SS men. But in the conditions of World War II, when the Reich had to constantly increase the power of the army, this principle faded into the background.
Himmler had to form several SS divisions, consisting of "Untermensch":

Volunteer motorized infantry division of the SS "Nordland" (1942 - Scandinavians);
- SS Mountain Division "Handshar" (1943 - Yugoslavs);
- 1st SS Infantry Division "Galicia" (1943 - Ukrainians);
- 1st SS Infantry Division "Latvia" (1943 - Latvians);
- 2nd SS Infantry Division "Latvia" (1944 - Latvians);
- 1st SS Infantry Division "Estonia" (1944 - Estonians);
- 1st Albanian SS Mountain Division "Skanderbeg" (1944 - Albanians);
- SS Mountain Division "Kama" (1944 - Yugoslavs);
- SS volunteer tank division "Netherlands" (1945 - Dutch);
- SS Mountain Division "Karstjeger" (1944 - Italians);
- 1st and 2nd SS divisions "Hunyadi" (1944 - Hungarians);
- SS volunteer infantry division "Langemark" (1945 - Flemings, Belgians);
- SS Volunteer Infantry Division "Wallonia" (1945 - Walloons, Belgians);
- 1st and 2nd SS Infantry Divisions "Russia" (1944 - Russians. They became part of Vlasov's army);
- 1st SS Infantry Division "Italy" (1945 - Italians);
- SS Infantry Division "Charlemagne" (1945 - French);
- SS volunteer infantry division "Landstrom-Netherlands" (1945 - Dutch).

In October 1944, when the number of SS troops was the highest, they consisted of 38 divisions and more than a million people. SS men, especially non-ethnic Germans, were noted for particular cruelty and atrocities towards the population of the territories occupied by Nazi Germany.

This cannot be forgotten !!!

Sergey Vorobyov.

The head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, was obsessed with ancient Germanic mythology and the occult. He planned to make Wewelsburg Castle the center of the Third Reich and a storage site for the Holy Grail, for which he specially hired a writer. And when the Second World War approaching the end, Himmler gave the order to wipe the place of worship from the face of the earth.

The "Guard Squad" (Schutzstaffel) - the Nazi SS - is one of the most terrible organizations ever to torment humanity. First, a small paramilitary security unit appeared, whose task was to protect the Nazi leaders during their meetings and to use force to fight their opponents. But the SS developed into the most powerful security apparatus in the country after the Nazi party.

The SS included the entire system of the state police in Germany and the countries occupied by it during the Second World War. It was the SS units that were entrusted with the implementation of the racial policy of Adolf Hitler, they were also responsible for the concentration and death camps. They killed over 11 million people, of whom six million were Jews.

The SS also included the fearsome secret police of the Gestapo. The organization's tentacles also penetrated the structure of the armed forces, where the Waffen-SS military wing was formed, which became the fourth branch of the German army.

The supreme leader of the SS was Heinrich Himmler. This man, responsible for many deaths, had an eccentric interest in mysticism, occultism and their symbols.

Like many other Nazis, Himmler in ancient German history was looking for evidence of the superiority of the Aryan race. The SS uniform was full of symbolic marks. For example, the SS logo itself in the form of two lightning bolts was taken from an ancient runic script. The Nazis instituted special SS holidays of pagan origin, such as the winter and summer solstice. In the early 1930s, Himmler found an iconic meeting place and secret rituals involving the elite of the murderous organization. But his plans for the ancient castle were much more ambitious ...

1934: evil took over the castle

The town of Wewelsburg, which gave the name to the local castle, is located about 50 km east of Dortmund. The castle stands in a green and shady area, but there is something gloomy about its old buildings. Three powerful towers are connected by a massive wall, inside there is a castle courtyard. The castle was built during the Renaissance.

And in 1934 evil took over there.

The head of the SS drew attention to Wewelsburg after the Nazi seizure of power in the 1930s. Himmler found the location ideal. The castle is located in an area known as the center of the former lands of the leader Arminius, which was important to Himmler and the Nazis.

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Arminius was the leader of the ancient Germans in the era of antiquity, he led the alliance of tribes, which inflicted a crushing defeat on the Roman Empire in the Teutoburg forest in 9 AD. Three Roman legions were killed in that battle.

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Himmler visited Wewelsburg on November 3, 1933, and made a decision immediately. He wanted to buy a castle, or at least rent it. The architect of the Reichsfuehrer SS immediately began to sketch out a plan for restructuring. The place was perfect for housing the SS officers' school.

Local authorities were not happy with the idea of ​​giving the historic building complex to the Nazis, but that didn't matter. Himmler fulfilled his wish. In 1934, the parties signed an agreement. The castle was leased to the SS for 100 years for a modest fee of one Reichsmark per year.

In September of the same year, Himmler was officially declared the governor of Wewelsburg at a magnificent ceremony. But the history of the area where it was planned to organize an officer's school soon took a completely different path. The Nazis decided to turn the castle into a place of worship, a kind of ideological representation of the SS.

Himmler was obsessed with the legend of the Holy Grail - the cup from which Jesus and his disciples drank at the Last Supper. The history of the Holy Grail is an important part of the legend of King Arthur. So one of the training rooms in the castle was briefly and succinctly dubbed "The Grail", while others were called "King Arthur", "King Henry", "Henry the Lion", "Christopher Columbus", "Aryan", "Runes".

Hitler had never been to this castle in person, but he also liked the legend of the Holy Grail, and the Fuhrer's favorite operas were Wagner's Lohengrin and Parsifal, which also contained the Grail motif.

Weddings for members of the SS

The rooms were sparsely decorated with oak panels and runes, swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Outside, the SS members made some changes to appearance castle to make it look more like a fortress. Here, new people were admitted to the organization, and those who were already members of the SS could marry in the castle at special ceremonies.

Rings with a dead head, belonging to the deceased Nazis, were brought to the castle and stored there in a coffin. These rings were worn by SS veterans, each a personal gift from Himmler. They could not be sold, and in case of death they were returned back. Now it is not known for certain where the 11,500 rings that were stored in Wewelsburg went to.

In the basement of the western tower, Himmler ordered the construction of a personal bank vault, the existence of which only the head of the SS and the commandant of the castle knew about. Nothing is known about the post-war fate of its contents either.

In 1939, when the war broke out, Himmler banned the publication of any information about the castle.

Should have become the "center of the world"

To finance the project, the Reichsfuehrer SS established a society in 1936 with the aim of "developing and maintaining German cultural relics." Unlike the SS, this organization was legally able to accept donations and borrow. By 1943, the total cost of the project reached 15 million Reichsmarks.

But Himmler's plans were even bigger. After Germany's "final victory" in the war, he intended to turn the castle into the "center of the world." The surviving drawings and models show how grandiose the planned structure was.

It was assumed that if you look at the area from above, then it should look like a geometric pattern. The plans were to build a wall 15-18 m high with 18 towers, each 860 m in diameter. Together, the architectural structure was three-quarters of a circle. In the very center was the northern tower of the castle. According to sketches in 1941, the most important structures formed an arrowhead figure.

However, only a small part of the plan came to fruition. Between 1938 and 1943, two rooms with mythological motives appeared in the north tower. At ground level, where the water reservoir was previously located, a round vault in the ancient Greek style was carved into the rock, and it was supposed to become a domed tomb. The floor was lowered 4.8 m and reinforced with concrete. Gas was brought to the center of the room and a structure was installed to constantly maintain the "eternally burning flame." A large swastika was depicted on the domed ceiling. Most likely, this place was intended for funeral rituals.

Another room, the so-called Obergruppenführer Hall, was formerly a chapel. There, a dark green sun wheel pattern was painted on a gray and white marble floor.

Writer in search of the Holy Grail

The Nazis plundered the occupied countries, appropriating valuables and works of art, as well as objects of religious worship.

For example, the Holy Spear, also known as the Spear of Destiny or the Spear of Longinus. According to legend, it was with this spear that the Roman soldier pierced the body of the crucified Christ.

There are at least two relics that are said to be the spear. There is information that Hitler was very interested in the item stored in Vienna. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the spear was taken to Nuremberg and hidden there. After the war, he was transferred back to Austria.

Himmler wanted Wewelsburg to have its own super relic. And the Holy Grail was perfect for this role.

Himmler assigned this task to an extremely unsuitable person. In search of the Holy Grail, writer and archaeologist Otto Rahn had to give his life. As the newspaper The Telegraph wrote, it was Run who became the prototype of the movie hero from Steven Spielberg's films - Indiana Jones.

Little is known about Otto Rahn's life. Outwardly, he did not look too much like Harrison Ford (Harrison Ford). Unlike the movie character, Rana's quest for the Holy Grail led to her death.

At the university, Rana was inspired by the image of Heinrich Schliemann, a German archaeologist who studied the Greek epic Iliad and was able to locate the ruins of ancient Troy, which was previously considered a myth.

Ran had similar ideas. He planned to use medieval legends as a kind of guide to finding the Grail. And the footprints led him to the south of France.

The search was unsuccessful, but Ran was sure he was not mistaken. The result of his journey was the book “ Crusade against the Grail ”(Kreuzzug gegen den Gral), which was published in 1933.

Mysterious Telegram for Rahn

One pulled the other. One day Ran received a mysterious telegram. He was offered a salary of 1,000 Reichsmarks a month to write a sequel to the book. The sender was not specified, but the telegram contained instructions: Ran was to arrive at a special address on the Prince Albrechtsstraße in Berlin.

Ran arrived at the scene, and another shock awaited him there. Heinrich Himmler received him. The Reichsfuehrer SS was in high spirits, and he not only read Rahn's book, but also recited it by heart. For the first time in his life, Ran met a man as obsessed with the idea of ​​the Grail as himself.

The SS leader was so sure that Rahn was right that he had already prepared a place to store the Grail in Wewelsburg. All Rahn had to do was find the relic.

Otto Rahn joined the SS and in 1936 became a full member of the organization. One day he complained about life when he met a friend on the street who was surprised to see Ran in SS uniform. According to The Telegraph, Ran exclaimed, “Man needs food. What was I supposed to do? Refuse Himmler? "

The Grail Hunter now has access to a wider range of resources than before. But, as another friend said, Ran already began to realize that he overestimated his strength, having decided to swim in the same water with such deadly sharks like Himmler.

Ran never found the Grail. But in 1937 he published another book, The Court of Lucifer (Lucufers Hofgesind), and Himmler liked it. He ordered the distribution of five thousand copies of the book, bound in the finest leather, to the Nazi elite.

But Otto Rahn did not hide his homosexuality and moved in anti-Nazi circles. This behavior was usually extremely dangerous in Germany. As a member of the SS, Ran remained partially protected - as long as the leadership was satisfied with his work ...

But Himmler began to doubt the decision to hire such an employee. Disappointment due to lack of results may have played a role. In 1937, Rahn was sent on a three-month business trip to the Dachau concentration camp as a guard. This was the first punishment.

In early 1939, Rahn did the unthinkable. He quit.

It was both brave and naive. The Grail Hunter sent a letter to Himmler. The Reichsfuehrer SS replied that he accepted Rahn's resignation. Was Himmler really going to let him go?

Subsequent events are not entirely clear. Most likely, Rahn was under pressure, Gestapo officers threatened to kill him. The only way out remained was suicide.

One March evening in 1939, Otto Rahn climbed a snow-covered mountain in the Austrian Tyrol and lay down in the cold awaiting death. He probably took poison. The cause of death was never reported. His numb body was found the next day. He was 34 years old.

Until now, hypotheses have been put forward about the fate of Otto Rahn. Some argue that it was a murder, others suggest the opposite: Ran faked death in order to hide from the SS.

Order to destroy the castle

Leaving aside the question of whether the Holy Grail ever existed, but, in any case, Himmler never received it.

The Nazis dreamed of a final victory, but their wish did not come true. And Wewelsburg never became the center of the Third Reich.

In March 1945, as the history of Nazi Germany was drawing to a close, Himmler ordered the destruction of the castle. However, the reserves of explosives were practically exhausted, so the SS soldiers simply set fire to the building, which caused almost no irreversible damage.

Shortly after the war, Himmler fell into the hands of the Allies. The head of the SS committed suicide by biting through the cyanide capsule, which he was hiding in his mouth.

In 1948-1949, renovations were made in Wewelsburg, and a year later the castle housed a museum and a hotel.

In 1977, the area was given the status of a war memorial. In memory of the disgusting deeds and crazy fantasies of the SS, a permanent exhibition was opened in the castle called "Ideology and SS Terror".

CC (German "Die SS", from "Das Schutzstaffel" - "security detachment", or, according to another version, "cover squadron" - according to this version it is believed that the author of the name was Hermann Goering, who took this term from the military aviation of the times First World War, as the fighter unit was called, which covered the main unit; in Russian, the abbreviation requires the use of the plural) - this is a subsidiary paramilitary organization of the NSDAP (until 1934, subordinate to another subsidiary party organization - the SA), which considered itself "an organization of political soldiers party ". Its function was originally to protect the leaders of the party (it was organized on the basis of the "Headquarters Guard" Adolf Hitler "", intended to protect the Fuhrer); Subsequently, a wide variety of functions were transferred to this organization (from ensuring the functioning of the system of institutions for extrajudicial detention and re-education - concentration camps to teaching young people in special party schools, the so-called national-political academies). From the moment of her appointment as its leader, Heinrich Himmler, she saw her mission in the recreation of "a new Aryan humanity", even before the Nazis came to power, she acquired in the eyes of both her own members and outsiders the image of an "elite" part of the Nazi party. Some of the members (at the end of the war, the most significant) served in structures created on the model of army formations, units and subunits (up to the headquarters of the armies), from 1939 operatively subordinate to the German armed forces and de facto included in their composition as the fourth component Wehrmacht (in 1940 they were named "Waffen SS", SS troops).

The Gestapo (German "Gestapo" from "Die Geheime Staatspolizei", - "secret state police"), a state institution created in March 1933 initially as a political department within the Prussian police on the orders of the minister-president of this German state Hermann Goering; it was subsequently merged with the political police departments of other German states into a single political police service. After that, she entered the SS-Gruppenfuehrer R. Heydrich, headed by the chief of the "SS Reichsfuehrer Security Service" (SD, German "Der Sieherheitsdienst" - "Security Service"), as part of the SS. Then, when the Main Directorate of Imperial Security (also as part of the SS) was created in 1940, it was included in it as one of the directorates.

In order to see the difference between these two organizations, you need to understand that these organizations were different in nature: if the SS was a party organization, then the Gestapo was a state one. Due to the peculiarities of the functioning of the police in the Third Reich (in the Weimar Republic there was no single German police, the police departments were under the jurisdiction of the lands; starting in 1933, G. Himmler, the head of the SS, began to unite all police services under his leadership; after he he achieved this, he became Deputy Minister of the Interior of the Reich with the title "Chief of the German Police") a situation arose when government departments were headed by the SS Fuhrer; The state police structures, which formally retained their independent status from the party and party organizations (in addition to the security police, there was a police of order, which united all other police forces of the Reich) were united in the administrative structures of the party organization (SS); police officials most often (but not always) received SS ranks in addition to their bureaucratic ranks (criminal inspectors, commissioners, advisers; government or ministerial advisers, etc.). In 1940, the party security organs (SD) and state police services (Gestapo and Kripo - criminal police) were merged into a single department (RSHA). The goal of such a union was Himmler's dream to unite all the Reich police departments within the SS under his leadership (i.e. make all police bodies part of his SS, without double subordination to the Ministry of the Interior), but this idea met with opposition from the rivals of the Reichsfuehrer SS in the ruling elite of the Reich (they tried to prevent an excessive increase in its influence), so such a union remained purely mechanical - despite the fact that both the state and criminal police headed by the SS Fuhrer, they remained state institutions, not included in the party apparatus.

ss

SS (German SS abbreviated from Schutzstaffeln - security detachments), an organization of the German fascists, one of the main pillars of the fascist regime. In 1925, it was isolated in the assault detachments (SA) as the "personal guard of the Fuhrer", since 1934 - an independent organization. From 1929 the SS was headed by G. Himmler. As part of the SS, the "Dead's Head" unit (for the protection of concentration camps and reprisals against prisoners), the SS troops, the SD security service (the main intelligence and counterintelligence body). The SS was the main agent of mass terror in Germany and the occupied territories. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg condemned the SS as a criminal organization.

SS

(German SS, abbreviated from Schutzstaffeln - security detachments), a privileged paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany. The embryo of the SS was the "Fuehrer's escort" (later the "Hitler assault group"), formed in May 1923 from members of the assault detachments (SA) loyal to A. Hitler. In November 1923, this group, along with the Nazi Party and the SA, was disbanded for participating in an attempted coup d'état (Munich putsch 1923). The SS proper, whose task was originally to protect the Fuhrer and fascist gatherings, were created in November 1925 and in 1926 are subordinate to the leadership of the newly legalized SA. In 1929, Hitler appointed G. Himmler as the head of the SS (Reichsfuehrer SS), who was tasked with turning the SS into a "select squad" to destroy the "traitors" within the SA and the Nazi party. The members of the SA fanatically loyal to the Fuehrer, full-fledged in "racial terms" ("Aryan origin" from the end of the 18th century) and physically strong people were selected in the SS. The command staff of the SS had their own special titles (Scharführer, Sturmführer, Sturmbannführer, etc.). The number of SS from 280 people. (1929) increased by the time the fascists came to power (January 1933) to 52 thousand people. Together with the SA, security detachments participated in bloody pogroms of communist and other progressive organizations in Germany during the arson of the Reichstag (February 1933), etc. from the main pillars of the fascist regime and the main instrument of the terrorist misanthropic policy of the Nazi party. In 1934, units of the "Dead Head" (Totenkopf-Verbande; by the beginning of 1945 - 30 thousand people) were allocated from the general composition of the SS for the protection of concentration camps and reprisals against their prisoners, as well as units of the special purpose SS (SS-Verfungungstruppen), which in November 1939 renamed the SS troops (Waffen SS). During World War II (1939--45), the number of SS troops increased from 4 regiments (18,000 men) in 1939 to 38 divisions (about 950,000 men) in December 1944. including 8 tank and 8 motorized divisions) of the ground forces of Nazi Germany, were distinguished by extreme fanaticism and exceptional cruelty in the rear and at the front. An integral part of the SS was the "security service" - the SD (Sicherheitsdienst SS), created in 1931 by Himmler's assistant R. Heydrich to spy on members of the SS and the Nazi Party, and then turned into the main intelligence and counterintelligence agency of Nazi Germany. As the SS developed, they merged with state apparatus fascist Germany. In September 1939, the Imperial Security Directorate (RSHA) was created in the SS system, to which the SD, the Gestapo (political police) and the criminal police were subordinate; in November 1939, the Gestapo and the criminal police were incorporated into the SS. In 1943, the Reichsfuehrer SS, becoming Minister of the Interior, concentrated in his hands all power over the punitive terrorist apparatus in Germany and the occupied territory, relying on the regional and district leaders of the SS in Germany and on the top leaders of the SS and police in the occupied territory. To carry out mass terror on the territory of the USSR in May 1941, 4 "Einsatzgruppen" (A, B, C, D) were created, consisting of 800-1200 people. each, who carried out the mass destruction of Soviet citizens with the help of the Wehrmacht and the SS troops. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, the SS were outlawed, and by the verdict of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, they were recognized as a criminal organization of German fascism.

Lit .: SS in action. SS Crime Papers, trans. from it., M., 1969; Calic E., Himmier et son empire, R., 1966.

Examples of the use of the word ss in the literature.

We, former political prisoners of Buchenwald: Russians, French, Poles, Czechs, Germans, Spaniards, Italians, Austrians, Belgians, Dutch, British, Luxembourgers, Yugoslavs, Romanians, Hungarians, jointly fought against SS, against the Nazi gang for our own liberation.

SS After the collapse of the Reich deprived him of his usual goods and luxurious food packed in neat cardboard boxes, Barbier experienced a constant feeling of hunger, completely unfamiliar to him before.

Actually the 2nd German Panzer Corps SS, opposing the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army near Prokhorovka, irretrievably lost only 5 tanks, and another 43 tanks and 12 assault guns were damaged, while irrecoverable losses only 3 corps of the 5th Guards Tank Army were, according to Soviet reports, which coincide in this case with the German, at least 334 tanks and self-propelled guns.

Peter Fenbong, rotenführer of the team SS, attached to the Krasnodon gendarme station, knew that Meister Brueckner and watchmaker Balder had taken the interrogation materials to the district gendarmerie and should receive an order on what to do with the arrested.

By March 21, repelling the counterattacks of the fascists, our troops enveloped the 6th Panzer Army from the flanks SS, and on March 22 they occupied the cities of Szekesfehervar and Veszprem - the hornet's nest of the fascist aviation.

Do you know, Herr General, that tonight in our division's sector, between settlements Saint Julien and Lanterno, two officers disappeared SS, Hauptmann Weisner and Lieutenant Reicher?

Allied intelligence has reported since October that German tank divisions withdrawn from the front for replenishment and that some of them became part of the newly formed 6th Panzer Army SS.

Like all Kripo investigators, including Marsh, Jaeger held the rank of Sturmbannführer SS.

In the Kalush - Solotvino - Stanislav area, the 13th security regiment took up defense SS and, although the 4th regiment was already battered by the Kovpak, but still the unfinished 4th regiment SS.

Together with the guys, the ten non-commissioned officers who took care of them left the floor. SS.

SS, operating in the direction of the main attack, had the task of breaking through the Allied defenses near Oudenbrat with the forces of three infantry divisions, which, after replenishing with two more infantry divisions, were to take a cut-off position facing the front to the north.

The prisoner sitting on the edge seemed to him more and more like a Brigadenführer SS, it was worth replacing only the insignia on the uniform.

He is devoted to the ideas of the great Fuhrer, rightly believing that an orphan in any other country in the world, dominated by Jewish plutocracy, Bolshevism or imperialism, is doomed to destruction and only in the Reich did he become an officer SS, the defender of the nation, the hero the people know about.

This is a report on the whereabouts of the concentration camps, signed by Paul, General SS, who was in charge of using the labor of concentration camp prisoners.

These orders were designed to exterminate the innocent civilian population and were carried out with all cruelty through the constant cooperation of the German army, SS, SD and ZIPO, whose actions caused the same disgust and condemnation among the population of all Western countries.