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Schutzstaffel

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The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. [1]

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  1. 388 relations: Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Ahnenerbe, Albert Speer, Alfred Rosenberg, Allach (porcelain), Allgemeine SS, Alois Brunner, Alois Hudal, Amin al-Husseini, Anschluss, Antwerp, Ardenne Abbey massacre, Ardennes, Armanen runes, Army Group Centre, Army Group North, Army Group South, Arnhem, Arthur Nebe, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Assault gun, Atlantic Wall, August Frank memorandum, Auschwitz concentration camp, Austrian SS, Avranches, Babi Yar, Bad Tölz, Bandenbekämpfung, Barbara Vogel, Battle for Caen, Battle of Berlin, Battle of France, Battle of Kursk, Battle of Moscow, Battle of Stalingrad, Battle of the Bulge, Bavaria, Bavarian Alps, Bayonet, Błonie, Beer Hall Putsch, Belgrade, Belzec extermination camp, Berghof (residence), Berlin, Bolesławiec, Bosniaks, ... Expand index (338 more) »

  2. Heinrich Himmler
  3. Military wings of fascist parties
  4. Nazi terrorism
  5. Nazi terrorist organizations
  6. Right-wing terrorism
  7. The Holocaust in Germany

Adolf Eichmann

Otto Adolf Eichmann (19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. Schutzstaffel and Adolf Hitler are the Holocaust in Germany.

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Ahnenerbe

The Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage") was a Schutzstaffel (SS) pseudoscientific organization which was active in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. Schutzstaffel and Ahnenerbe are 1945 disestablishments in Germany, Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Party organizations, Nazi SS and organizations disestablished in 1945.

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Albert Speer

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as the Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II.

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Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (– 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue. Schutzstaffel and Alfred Rosenberg are Antisemitism in Germany.

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Allach (porcelain)

Allach porcelain (pronounced 'alak') a.k.a. Porzellan Manufaktur Allach was produced in Germany between 1935 and 1945.

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Allgemeine SS

The Allgemeine SS ("General SS") was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed by the SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt). Schutzstaffel and Allgemeine SS are 1945 disestablishments in Germany and Nazi SS.

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Alois Brunner

Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – or) was an Austrian officer who held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II.

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Alois Hudal

Alois Karl Hudal (also known as Luigi Hudal; 31 May 188513 May 1963) was an Austrian bishop of the Catholic Church, based in Rome.

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Amin al-Husseini

Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (محمد أمين الحسيني; 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine.

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Anschluss

The Anschluss (or Anschluß), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Ardenne Abbey massacre

The Ardenne Abbey massacre occurred during the Battle of Normandy at the Ardenne Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery in Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, near Caen, France.

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Ardennes

The Ardennes (Ardenne; Ardennen; Ardennen; Årdene; Ardennen), also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, extending into Germany and France.

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Armanen runes

Armanen runes (or Armanen Futharkh) are 18 pseudo-runes, inspired by the historic Younger Futhark runes, invented by Austrian mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List during a state of temporary blindness in 1902, and described in his Das Geheimnis der Runen ("The Secret of the Runes"), published as a periodical article in 1906, and as a standalone publication in 1908.

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Army Group Centre

Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II.

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Army Group North

Army Group North (Heeresgruppe Nord) was the name of three separate army groups of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

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Army Group South

Army Group South (Heeresgruppe Süd) was the name of one of three German Army Groups during World War II.

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Arnhem

Arnhem (or; Arnheim; Ernems: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border.

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Arthur Nebe

Arthur Nebe (13 November 1894 – 21 March 1945) was a German SS functionary who held key positions in the security and police apparatus of Nazi Germany and was, from 1941, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust.

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Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Seyß-Inquart,; 22 July 1892 16 October 1946) was an Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days before the Anschluss.

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Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance.

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Assault gun

An assault gun (from Sturmgeschütz,, meaning "assault gun") is a type of self-propelled artillery which uses an infantry support gun mounted on a motorized chassis, normally an armored fighting vehicle, which are designed to provide direct fire support for infantry attacks, especially against other infantry or fortified positions.

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Atlantic Wall

The Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II.

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August Frank memorandum

The August Frank memorandum of 26 September 1942 was a directive from SS Lieutenant General (Obergruppenführer) August Frank of the SS concentration camp administration department (SS-WVHA). Schutzstaffel and August Frank memorandum are Nazi SS.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. Schutzstaffel and Auschwitz concentration camp are the Holocaust.

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Austrian SS

The Austrian SS was that portion of the Schutzstaffel (SS) membership from Austria. Schutzstaffel and Austrian SS are Nazi SS.

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Avranches

Avranches (Avraunches) is a commune in the Manche department, and the region of Normandy, northwestern France.

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Babi Yar

Babi Yar (Бабий Яр) or Babyn Yar (Бабин Яр) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.

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Bad Tölz

Bad Tölz (Bavarian: Däiz) is a town in Bavaria, Germany and the administrative center of the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district.

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Bandenbekämpfung

In German military history, Bandenbekämpfung (German), also referred to as Nazi security warfare during World War II, refers to the concept and military doctrine of countering resistance or insurrection in the rear area during wartime with extreme brutality. Schutzstaffel and Bandenbekämpfung are Nazi SS and the Holocaust.

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Barbara Vogel

Barbara Vogel (born 7 December 1940) is a German historian.

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Battle for Caen

The Battle for Caen (June to August 1944) is the name given to fighting between the British Second Army and the German Panzergruppe West in the Second World War for control of the city of Caen and its vicinity during the larger Battle of Normandy.

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Battle of Berlin

The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II.

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Battle of France

The Battle of France (bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of France, that notably introduced tactics that are still used.

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Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk was the single largest battle in the history of warfare. It, along with the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier, are the two most oft-cited turning points in the European theatre of the war.

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Battle of Moscow

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Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of StalingradSchlacht von Stalingrad see; p (17 July 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, beginning when Nazi Germany and its Axis allies attacked and became locked in a protracted struggle with the Soviet Union for control over the Soviet city of Stalingrad in southern Russia.

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Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II which took place from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bavarian Alps

The Bavarian Alps (Bayerische Alpen) is a collective name for several mountain ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps within the German state of Bavaria.

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Bayonet

A bayonet (from Old French bayonette, now spelt baïonnette) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle, carbine, musket or similar long firearm, allowing the gun to be used as an improvised spear in close combats.

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Błonie

Błonie is a town in Warsaw West County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 12,058 as of December 2021.

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Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch,Dan Moorhouse, ed.

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Belgrade

Belgrade.

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Belzec extermination camp

Belzec (English: or, Polish) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland.

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Berghof (residence)

The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's holiday home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bolesławiec

Bolesławiec (pronounced, Bolesławiec, Bunzlau) is a historic city situated on the Bóbr River in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Bosniaks

The Bosniaks (Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци,; Bošnjak, Bošnjakinja) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Braunschweig

Braunschweig or Brunswick (from Low German Brunswiek, local dialect: Bronswiek) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.

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British Expeditionary Force (World War II)

The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the contingent of the British Army sent to France in 1939 after Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany on 3 September, beginning the Second World War.

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British Indian Army

The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.

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Brown House, Munich

The Brown House (Braunes Haus) was the name given to the Munich mansion located between the Karolinenplatz and Königsplatz, known before as the Palais Barlow, which was purchased in 1930 for the Nazis.

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Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald (literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.

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Caen

Caen (Kaem) is a commune inland from the northwestern coast of France.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.

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Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna

The Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna was a Sicherheitsdienst (SD-Security Service) agency established in August 1938 to accelerate the forced emigration of the Austrian Jews and (starting in October 1939) to organize and carry out their deportation.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chancellor of Germany

The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal government of Germany, and the commander-in-chief of the German Armed Forces during wartime.

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Chełmno extermination camp

Chełmno or Kulmhof was the first of Nazi Germany's extermination camps and was situated north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem.

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Christmas in Nazi Germany

The celebration of Christmas in Nazi Germany included attempts by the regime to bring the Christian religious holiday into line with Nazi ideology. Schutzstaffel and Christmas in Nazi Germany are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Clemson University

Clemson University is a public land-grant research university near Clemson, South Carolina.

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Commandant

Commandant is a title often given to the officer in charge of a military (or other uniformed service) training establishment or academy.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Concentration Camps Inspectorate

The Concentration Camps Inspectorate (CCI) or in German, IKL (Inspektion der Konzentrationslager) was the central SS administrative and managerial authority for the concentration camps of the Third Reich. Schutzstaffel and concentration Camps Inspectorate are Nazi SS.

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Counterintelligence Corps

The Counter Intelligence Corps (Army CIC) was a World War II and early Cold War intelligence agency within the United States Army consisting of highly trained special agents.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.

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Cuff title

The cuff title (German: Ärmelstreifen) is a form of commemorative or affiliation insignia placed on the sleeve, near the cuff, of German military and paramilitary uniforms.

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Czechoslovak government-in-exile

The Czechoslovak government-in-exile, sometimes styled officially as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia (Prozatímní vláda Československa; Dočasná vláda Československa), was an informal title conferred upon the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee (Výbor Československého Národního Osvobození; Československý Výbor Národného Oslobodenia), initially by British diplomatic recognition.

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Dachau concentration camp

Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest running one, opening on 22 March 1933.

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Dachau liberation reprisals

During the Dachau liberation reprisals,The incident at Dachau does not meet the legal definition of reprisal, an illegal act conducted to dissuade an enemy nation from performing its own illegal acts.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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Death of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe.

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Democide

Democide refers to "the intentional killing of an unarmed or disarmed person by government agents acting in their authoritative capacity and pursuant to government policy or high command." The term was first coined by Holocaust historian and statistics expert, R.J. Rummel in his book Death by Government, but has also been described as a better term than genocide to refer to certain types of mass killings, by renowned Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer.

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Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe

Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe (for 'German Economic Enterprises'), abbreviated DWB, was a project launched by Nazi Germany in World War II.

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Dieppe Raid

Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War.

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Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe

Displaced persons camps in post–World War II Europe were established in Germany, Austria, and Italy, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps.

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Drobytsky Yar

Drobytsky Yar is a ravine in Kharkiv, Ukraine and the site of Nazi massacres during the Holocaust in Ukraine.

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Dunkirk

Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duunkerke, Duinkerke or Duinkerken) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.

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Działdowo

Działdowo (Soldau) (Old Prussian: Saldawa) is a town in northern Poland with 20,935 inhabitants as of December 2021, the capital of Działdowo County.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Edgar Feuchtinger

Edgar Feuchtinger (9 November 1894 – 21 January 1960) was a German General (Generalleutnant) during the Second World War.

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Eduard Wirths

Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945.

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Einsatzgruppen

Einsatzgruppen (also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. Schutzstaffel and Einsatzgruppen are the Holocaust.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Erhard Heiden

Erhard Heiden (23 February 1901 – 19 March 1933) was an early member of the Nazi Party and the third commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the paramilitary wing of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Detachment; SA"). Schutzstaffel and Erhard Heiden are Heinrich Himmler.

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Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski (born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski; 1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was a high-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany of Kashubian-Polish origin.

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Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. Schutzstaffel and Ernst Kaltenbrunner are Heinrich Himmler.

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Erwin Rommel

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.

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Esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel

The esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel (known in German as the SS-Runen) were used from the 1920s to 1945 on Schutzstaffel (SS) flags, uniforms and other items as symbols of various aspects of Nazi ideology and Germanic mysticism. Schutzstaffel and esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel are Nazi SS.

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Esoteric Nazism

Esoteric Nazism, also known as Esoteric Fascism or Esoteric Hitlerism, refers to a range of mystical interpretations and adaptations of Nazism.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Estonian Legion

The Estonian Legion (Eesti Leegion, Estnische Legion) was a military unit of the Combat Support Forces of the Waffen-SS during World War II, mainly consisting of Estonian soldiers.

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Extermination camp

Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.

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Extermination through labour

Extermination through labour (or "extermination through work", Vernichtung durch Arbeit) is a term that was adopted to describe forced labor in Nazi concentration camps whose inmates were held in inhumane conditions and suffered a high mortality rate; in some camps most prisoners died within a few months of incarceration. Schutzstaffel and Extermination through labour are the Holocaust.

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Falaise pocket

The Falaise pocket or Battle of the Falaise pocket (12–21 August 1944) was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War.

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Führerbunker

The was an air raid shelter located near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.

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Führerprinzip

In the political history of Germany, the Führerprinzip (Leader Principle) was the basis of executive authority in the Government of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), which meant that the word of the Führer is above all written law, and that government policies, decisions, and offices all work towards the realisation of the will of the Führer.

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Fedor von Bock

Moritz Albrecht Franz Friedrich Fedor von Bock (3 December 1880 – 4 May 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (Field Marshal) who served in the German Army during the Second World War.

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Final Solution

The Final Solution (die Endlösung) or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question (Endlösung der Judenfrage) was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II. Schutzstaffel and Final Solution are the Holocaust.

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Flossenbürg concentration camp

Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office.

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Forced labour under German rule during World War II

The use of slave and forced labour in Nazi Germany (Zwangsarbeit) and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II took place on an unprecedented scale.

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Fort VII

Fort VII, officially Konzentrationslager Posen (renamed later), was a Nazi German death camp set up in Poznań in German-occupied Poland during World War II, located in one of the 19th-century forts circling the city.

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Franz Josef Huber

Franz Josef Huber (22 January 1902 – 30 January 1975) was an SS functionary who was a police and security service official in both the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

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Franz Stangl

Franz Paul Stangl (26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka in World War II.

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Free City of Danzig

The Free City of Danzig (Freie Stadt Danzig; Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Freikorps

Freikorps ("Free Corps" or "Volunteer Corps") were irregular German and other European paramilitary volunteer units that existed from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Schutzstaffel and Freikorps are Antisemitism in Germany.

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Fritz Klingenberg

Fritz Paul Heinrich Otto Klingenberg (17 December 1912 – 23 March 1945) was a German officer in the Waffen-SS who served with the SS Division Das Reich and was a commander of the SS Division Götz von Berlichingen.

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Gas chamber

A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced.

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Gas van

A gas van or gas wagon (душегубка, dushegubka, literally "soul killer"; Gaswagen) was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber.

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Gau (territory)

Gau (German:; gouw; gea or goa) is a Germanic term for a region within a country, often a former or current province.

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Generalfeldmarschall

Generalfeldmarschall (from Old High German marahscalc, "marshal, stable master, groom"; general field marshal, field marshal general, or field marshal; often abbreviated to Feldmarschall) was a rank in the armies of several German states and the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsgeneralfeldmarschall); in the Habsburg monarchy, the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, the rank Feldmarschall was used.

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Generalleutnant

Generalleutnant is the German-language variant of lieutenant general, used in some German speaking countries.

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Generalmajor

Generalmajor is the Germanic variant of major general, used in a number of Central and Northern European countries.

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Generaloberst

A Generaloberst ("colonel general") was the second-highest general officer rank in the German Reichswehr and Wehrmacht, the Austro-Hungarian Common Army, the East German National People's Army and in their respective police services.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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German AB-Aktion in Poland

The 1940 AB-Aktion (Außerordentliche Befriedungsaktion), a second stage of the Nazi German campaign of violence in Poland during World War II, aimed to eliminate the intellectuals and the upper classes of the Second Polish Republic across the territories slated for eventual annexation by the German Reich.

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German Army (1935–1945)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. Schutzstaffel and German Army (1935–1945) are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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German Earth and Stone Works

German Earth and Stone Works (Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH) was an SS-owned company created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany.

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German invasion of Greece

The German invasion of Greece, also known as the Battle of Greece or Operation Marita (Unternehmen Marita), were the attacks on Greece by Italy and Germany during World War II.

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German invasion of Hungary (1944)

In March 1944, Hungary was occupied by the Wehrmacht.

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German invasion of the Netherlands

The German invasion of the Netherlands (Duitse aanval op Nederland), otherwise known as the Battle of the Netherlands (Slag om Nederland), was a military campaign part of Case Yellow (Fall Gelb), the Nazi German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands) and France during World War II.

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German-occupied Europe

German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

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Germanic SS

The Germanic SS was the collective name given to paramilitary and political organisations established in parts of German-occupied Europe between 1939 and 1945 under the auspices of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Schutzstaffel and Germanic SS are Nazi SS.

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Gestapo

The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo, was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. Schutzstaffel and Gestapo are 1945 disestablishments in Germany, Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS and the Holocaust.

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Gitta Sereny

Gitta Sereny, CBE (13 March 192114 June 2012) was an Austrian-British biographer, historian, and investigative journalist who became known for her interviews and profiles of infamous figures, including Mary Bell, who was convicted in 1968 of killing two children when she herself was a child, and Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp.

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Glossary of Nazi Germany

This is a list of words, terms, concepts and slogans of Nazi Germany used in the historiography covering the Nazi regime.

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Goworowo, Płońsk County

Goworowo is a village in the administrative district of Czerwińsk nad Wisłą, within Płońsk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.

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Gross-Rosen concentration camp

Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Gruppenführer

Gruppenführer was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), first created in 1925 as a senior rank of the SA.

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Guido von List

Guido Karl Anton List (5 October 1848 – 17 May 1919), better known as Guido von List, was an Austrian occultist, journalist, playwright, and novelist.

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Hans Frank

Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician, war criminal, and lawyer who served as head of the General Government in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War.

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Hans-Ulrich Rudel

Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 – 18 December 1982) was a German ground-attack pilot during World War II and a post-war neo-Nazi activist.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust. Schutzstaffel and Heinrich Himmler are Nazi SS.

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Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)

Heinrich Müller (28 April 1900; date of death unknown, but evidence points to May 1945) was a high-ranking German Schutzstaffel (SS) and police official during the Nazi era.

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Hellenic Army

The Hellenic Army (Ellinikós Stratós, sometimes abbreviated as ΕΣ), formed in 1828, is the land force of Greece.

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Herbert Lange

Herbert Lange (29 September 1909 – 20 April 1945) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.

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Hermann Fegelein

Hans Otto Georg Hermann Fegelein (30 October 1906 – 28 April 1945) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany. Schutzstaffel and Hermann Fegelein are Heinrich Himmler.

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Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal.

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HIAG

HIAG (lit) was a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951.

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Hitler Youth

The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, often abbreviated as HJ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Schutzstaffel and Hitler Youth are 1945 disestablishments in Germany, Nazi Party organizations and organizations disestablished in 1945.

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Holocaust victims

Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, disability or sexual orientation. The institutionalized practice by the Nazis of singling out and persecuting people resulted in the Holocaust, which began with legalized social discrimination against specific groups, involuntary hospitalization, euthanasia, and forced sterilization of persons considered physically or mentally unfit for society.

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Hotel Metropole, Vienna

Hotel Metropole was a hotel in Vienna, Austria that was constructed in 1871–73.

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Hron

The Hron (Hron; Gran; Garam; Granus) is a long left tributary of the Danube, p. 38 and the second-longest river in Slovakia.

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I SS Panzer Corps

The I SS Panzer Corps (I.SS-Panzerkorps) was a German armoured corps of the Waffen-SS.

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IG Farben

I. Schutzstaffel and IG Farben are 1925 establishments in Germany.

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II SS Panzer Corps

The II SS Panzer Corps was a German Waffen-SS armoured corps which saw action on both the Eastern and Western Fronts during World War II.

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Indian Legion

The Indian Legion (Indische Legion), officially the Free India Legion (Legion Freies Indien) or 950th (Indian) Infantry Regiment (Infanterie-Regiment 950 (indisches)), was a military unit raised during the Second World War initially as part of the German Army and later the Waffen-SS from August 1944.

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Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the intelligentsia consists of scholars, academics, teachers, journalists, and literary writers.

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International Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Invasion of Yugoslavia

The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 during World War II.

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Italian campaign (World War II)

The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.

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Jakob Reimer

Jakob (Jack) Reimer (November 6, 1918 – August 3, 2005) was a Trawniki camp guard who later emigrated to the United States and became a salesman and restaurant manager.

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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany

Beginning with the invasion of Poland during World War II, the Nazi regime set up ghettos across German-occupied Eastern Europe in order to segregate and confine Jews, and sometimes Romani people, into small sections of towns and cities furthering their exploitation.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joachim Peiper

Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal.

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.

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Johann Rattenhuber

Johann Rattenhuber (30 April 1897 – 30 June 1957), also known as Hans Rattenhuber, was a German police and SS general (Gruppenführer, i. e. Generalleutnant).

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Josef Mengele

Josef Rudolf Mengele (16 March 19117 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II.

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Joseph Berchtold

Joseph Berchtold (6 March 1897 – 23 August 1962) was an early senior Nazi Party member and a co-founder of both the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS).

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón (8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine lieutenant general, politician and statesman who served as the 35th President of Argentina from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and again as the 45th President from October 1973 to his death in July 1974.

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Judenfrei

Judenfrei ("free of Jews") and judenrein ("clean of Jews") are terms of Nazi origin to designate an area that has been "cleansed" of Jews during The Holocaust. Schutzstaffel and Judenfrei are the Holocaust.

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Julius Schreck

Julius Schreck (13 July 1898 – 16 May 1936) was an early senior Nazi official and close confidant of Adolf Hitler.

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Karl Dietrich Bracher

Karl Dietrich Bracher (13 March 1922 – 19 September 2016) was a German political scientist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

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Karl Hanke

Karl August Hanke (24 August 1903 – 8 June 1945) was an official of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) during its rule over Germany who served as the fifth and final Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS).

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Königsberg

Königsberg (Królewiec, Karaliaučius, Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.

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Kharkiv

Kharkiv (Харків), also known as Kharkov (Харькoв), is the second-largest city in Ukraine.

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Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

Klagenfurt am WörtherseeLandesgesetzblatt 2008 vom 16.

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Kościan

Kościan (Kosten) is a town on the Obra canal in west-central Poland, with a population of 23,952 inhabitants as of June 2014.

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Kraków

(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

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Kriminalpolizei

Kriminalpolizei ("criminal police") is the standard term for the criminal investigation agency within the police forces of Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland. Schutzstaffel and Kriminalpolizei are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Kristallnacht

Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (Novemberpogrome), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's nocat. Schutzstaffel and Kristallnacht are Antisemitism in Germany and the Holocaust in Germany.

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Kursk

Kursk (Курск) is a city and the administrative center of Kursk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kur, Tuskar, and Seym rivers.

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lüneburg

Lüneburg (Lümborg; Luneburgum or Lunaburgum; Luneburc; Hliuni; Glain), officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg (Hansestadt Lüneburg) and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Le Paradis massacre

The Le Paradis massacre was a World War II war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein.

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Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism

The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, LVF) was a unit of the German Army during World War II consisting of collaborationist volunteers from France.

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Liberation of Paris

The liberation of Paris (libération de Paris) was a battle that took place during World War II from 19 August 1944 until the German garrison surrendered the French capital on 25 August 1944.

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Lidice

Lidice (Liditz) is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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List of Gauleiters

The List of Gauleiter enumerates 114 men who held the Nazi Party (NSDAP) senior regional leader rank of Gauleiter under Adolf Hitler, from the reestablishment of the party in February 1925 to the fall of the Nazi regime in May 1945.

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List of SS personnel

Between 1925 and 1945, the German Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members.

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List of Waffen-SS divisions

All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Low Countries

The Low Countries (de Lage Landen; les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Nederland, which is singular).

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.

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Majdanek concentration camp

Majdanek (or Lublin) was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.

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Malmedy massacre

The Malmedy massacre was a German war crime committed by soldiers of the Waffen-SS on 17 December 1944 at the Baugnez crossroads near the city of Malmedy, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945).

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Malmedy massacre trial

The Malmedy massacre trial (U.S. vs. Valentin Bersin, et al.) was held in May–July 1946 in the former Dachau concentration camp to try the German Waffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmedy massacre of 17 December 1944.

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Marinebrigade Ehrhardt

The Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, also known as the Ehrhardt Brigade, was a Freikorps unit of the early Weimar Republic.

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Mass surveillance

Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens.

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Mauthausen concentration camp

Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz), Upper Austria. Schutzstaffel and Mauthausen concentration camp are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Mława

Mława (מלאווע Mlave) is a town in north-eastern Poland with 30,403 inhabitants in 2020.

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Meine Ehre heißt Treue

Meine Ehre heißt Treue ("My honor is loyalty") was the motto of the Schutzstaffel (SS) under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Schutzstaffel and Meine Ehre heißt Treue are Nazi SS.

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Meuse

The Meuse (Moûze) or Maas (Maos or Maas) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta.

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Minister President of Prussia

The office of Minister-President (Ministerpräsident), or Prime Minister, of Prussia existed from 1848, when it was formed by King Frederick William IV during the 1848–49 Revolution, until the abolition of Prussia in 1947 by the Allied Control Council.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Monowitz concentration camp

Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (Arbeitslager) run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Mortain

Mortain is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.

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Mossad

The Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (ha-Mosád le-Modiʿín u-le-Tafkidím Meyuḥadím), popularly known as Mossad, is the national intelligence agency of the State of Israel.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Munich Agreement

The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.

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Myth of the clean Wehrmacht

The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is the negationist notion that the regular German armed forces (the Wehrmacht) were not involved in the Holocaust or other war crimes during World War II.

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Nagykanizsa

Nagykanizsa (Velika Kaniža/Velika Kanjiža, or just Kaniža/Kanjiža; Großkirchen, Groß-Kanizsa; Canissa; Velika Kaniža; Kanije), known colloquially as Kanizsa, is a medium-sized city in Zala County in southwestern Hungary.

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Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp

Natzweiler-Struthof was a Nazi concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the villages of Natzweiler and Struthof in the Gau Baden-Alsace of Germany, on territory annexed from France on a basis in 1940.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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Nazi eugenics

The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. Schutzstaffel and Nazi Germany are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Schutzstaffel and Nazi Party are 1945 disestablishments in Germany, Antisemitism in Germany and the Holocaust.

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Nazism

Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. Schutzstaffel and Nazism are the Holocaust.

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Neuengamme concentration camp

Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps.

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Niederkirchnerstraße

Niederkirchnerstraße is a street in Berlin, Germany and was named after Käthe Niederkirchner.

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Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives (Nacht der langen Messer), also called the Röhm purge or Operation Hummingbird (Unternehmen Kolibri), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Schutzstaffel and Night of the Long Knives are Nazi SS.

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Non-commissioned officer

A non-commissioned officer (NCO) is a military officer who does not hold a commission.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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North African campaign

The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.

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Nowy Dwór Gdański

Nowy Dwor Gdanski (formerly Tiegenhof) is a town in Poland on the Tuja river in the Żuławy Wiślane region, capital of Nowy Dwór Gdański County, located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, with 10,171 inhabitants (2012).

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Nuremberg Laws

The Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze) were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

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Nuremberg trials

The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and atrocities against their citizens in World War II.

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Oaths to Hitler

Various organisations in Nazi Germany required their members to swear oaths to Adolf Hitler by name, rather than to the German state or an officeholder.

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Oberführer

Oberführer (short: Oberf) was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) dating back to 1921.

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Obergruppenführer

Obergruppenführer was a paramilitary rank in Nazi Germany that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) and adopted by the Schutzstaffel (SS) one year later.

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Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

The Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (abbreviated OKW; Armed Forces High Command) was the supreme military command and control office of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Obernai

Obernai (Alsatian: Owernah; Oberehnheim) commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

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Obersalzberg

Obersalzberg is a mountainside retreat situated above the market town of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria, Germany.

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Obersturmbannführer

Obersturmbannführer (Senior Assault-unit Leader;; short: Ostubaf) was a paramilitary rank in the German Nazi Party (NSDAP) which was used by the SA (Sturmabteilung) and the SS (Schutzstaffel).

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Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)

The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia.

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Occupation of the Baltic states

The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania begun by the Soviet Union in 1940, continued for three years by Nazi Germany after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and finally resumed by the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.

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Oder

The Oder (Czech, Lower Sorbian and) is a river in Central Europe.

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ODESSA

ODESSA is an American codename (from the German: Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, meaning: Organization of Former SS Members) coined in 1946 to cover Nazi underground escape-plans made at the end of World War II by a group of SS officers with the aim of facilitating secret escape routes, and any directly ensuing arrangements. Schutzstaffel and ODESSA are Nazi SS.

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Odilo Globocnik

Odilo Lothar Ludwig Globocnik (21 April 1904 – 31 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official from Austria and a perpetrator of the Holocaust.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Operation Lüttich

Operation Lüttich (7–13 August 1944) was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred near U.S. positions near Mortain, in northwestern France.

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Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944.

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Operation Reinhard

Operation Reinhard or Operation Reinhardt (Aktion Reinhard or Aktion Reinhardt; also Einsatz Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhardt) was the codename of the secret German plan in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland. Schutzstaffel and Operation Reinhard are Heinrich Himmler.

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Operation Spring Awakening

Operation Spring Awakening (Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) was the last major German offensive of World War II.

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Operation Tannenberg

Operation Tannenberg (Unternehmen Tannenberg) was a codename for one of the anti-Polish extermination actions by Nazi Germany.

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Ordnungspolizei

The Ordnungspolizei, abbreviated Orpo, meaning "Order Police", were the uniformed police force in Nazi Germany from 1936 to 1945. Schutzstaffel and Ordnungspolizei are Nazi SS.

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Orne (river)

The Orne is a river in Normandy, within northwestern France.

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Oswald Pohl

Oswald Ludwig Pohl (30 June 1892 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.

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Otto Ohlendorf

Otto Ohlendorf (4 February 1907 – 7 June 1951) was a German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era.

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Otto von Bolschwing

Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwing (15 October 1909 – 7 March 1982) was a German-American SS-Hauptsturmführer, intelligence officer and international businessman.

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Owińska

Owińska is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czerwonak, within Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.

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Panzer corps

A panzer corps (Panzerkorps) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.

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Panzergrenadier

(), abbreviated as PzG (WWII) or PzGren (modern), meaning "Armour"-ed fighting vehicle "Grenadier", is the German term for the military doctrine of mechanized infantry units in armoured forces who specialize in fighting from and in conjunction with infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) – that is, armoured troop carriers designed to carry a mechanized squad of six to eight soldiers into, during and out of combat while providing direct fire support for those troops.

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Paramilitary

A paramilitary is a military that is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces.

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Paul Blobel

Paul Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust.

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Paul Hausser

Paul Hausser also known as Paul Falk after taking his birth name post war (7 October 1880 – 21 December 1972) was a German general and then a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS who played a key role in the post-war efforts by former members of the Waffen-SS to achieve historical and legal rehabilitation.

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Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS

The Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS) was a main office of the SS, which was established in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler to serve as a personal office coordinating various activities and projects subordinate to the Reichsführer-SS. Schutzstaffel and personal Staff Reichsführer-SS are Heinrich Himmler.

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Pinsk Marshes

The Pinsk Marshes (Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Prypiackija baloty), the Polesie Marshes, and the Rokitno Marshes, are a vast natural region of wetlands in Polesia, along the forested basin of the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest to the west, Mogilev in the northeast, and Kyiv to the southeast.

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Piotr Cywiński

Piotr Mateusz Andrzej Cywiński, (Polish:; born 16 April 1972 in Warsaw) is a Polish historian, medievalist and social activist.

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Police state

A police state describes a state whose government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Pripyat Marshes massacres

The Pripyat Marshes massacres (Prypyatsümpfe Säuberung) were a series of mass murders carried out by the military forces of Nazi Germany against Jewish civilians in Belarus and Ukraine, during July–August 1941.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Propaganda in Nazi Germany

The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler's dictatorship of Germany from 1933 to 1945 was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policies.

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Racial policy of Nazi Germany

The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented in Nazi Germany under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, based on pseudoscientific and racist doctrines asserting the superiority of the putative "Aryan race", which claimed scientific legitimacy.

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Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian.

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Ravensbrück concentration camp

Ravensbrück was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Reich Chancellery

The Reich Chancellery (Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called Reichskanzler) in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945.

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Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood

The Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood (Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, RKF, RKFDV) was an office in Nazi Germany, which was held by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler.

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Reich Security Main Office

The Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA) was an organization under Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacity as Chef der Deutschen Polizei (Chief of German Police) and, the head of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel (SS).

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Reichsführer-SS

Reichsführer-SS was a special title and rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945 for the commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Schutzstaffel and Reichsführer-SS are Heinrich Himmler.

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Reichsmark

The Reichsmark (sign: ℛ︁ℳ︁; abbreviation: RM) was the currency of Germany from 1924 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945, and in the American, British and French occupied zones of Germany, until 20 June 1948.

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Reichssicherheitsdienst

The Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD, lit. "Reich security service") was an SS security force of Nazi Germany. Schutzstaffel and Reichssicherheitsdienst are Nazi SS.

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Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine is one of the major European rivers.

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Richard Glücks

Richard Glücks (22 April 1889 – 10 May 1945) was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era.

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Richard Rhodes

Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and non-fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018).

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Riga Ghetto

Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, where Nazis forced Jews from Latvia, and later from the German "Reich" (Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Moravia), to live during World War II.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Rotary International

Rotary International is one of the largest service organizations in the world.

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Royal Norfolk Regiment

The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959.

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Rudolf Diels

Rudolf Diels (16 December 1900 – 18 November 1957) was a German civil servant and head of the Gestapo in 1933–34.

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Rudolf Höss

Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss (also Höß, Hoeß, or Hoess;; 25 November 1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

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Rumbula massacre

The Rumbula massacre is a collective term for incidents on November 30 and December 8, 1941, in which about 25,000 Jews were murdered in or on the way to Rumbula forest near Riga, Latvia, during World War II.

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Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Sachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year.

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Samurai

were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.

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Secret police

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Seine

The Seine is a river in northern France.

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Sepp Dietrich

Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (28 May 1892 – 21 April 1966) was a German politician and SS commander during the Nazi era.

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Sicherheitsdienst

Sicherheitsdienst ("Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst are Nazi Party organizations and Nazi SS.

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Sicherheitspolizei

The (Security Police), often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Germany for security police. Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitspolizei are the Holocaust in Germany.

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Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 190820 September 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer.

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Slavs

The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.

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Sobibor extermination camp

Sobibor (Sobibór) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. Schutzstaffel and Sobibor extermination camp are the Holocaust.

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Sonderaktion 1005

Sonderaktion 1005 ('Special Action 1005'), also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion ('Exhumation Action'), was a top-secret Nazi operation conducted from June 1942 to late 1944.

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Sonderkommando

Sonderkommandos (special unit) were work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners.

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Southern France

Southern France, also known as the south of France or colloquially in French as le Midi, is a defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin,Louis Papy, Le midi atlantique, Atlas et géographie de la France moderne, Flammarion, Paris, 1984.

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Soviet partisans

Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Sowilō (rune)

Sowilo (*sōwilō), meaning "sun", is the reconstructed Proto-Germanic language name of the s-rune (ᛊ, ᛋ).

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SS and police leader

The title of SS and Police Leader (SS und Polizeiführer) designated a senior Nazi Party official who commanded various components of the SS and the German uniformed police (Ordnungspolizei), before and during World War II in the German Reich proper and in the occupied territories. Schutzstaffel and sS and police leader are Nazi SS.

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SS Cavalry Brigade

The SS Cavalry Brigade (SS-Kavallerie-Brigade) was a unit of the German Waffen-SS during World War II. Schutzstaffel and SS Cavalry Brigade are the Holocaust.

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SS Court Main Office

The SS Court Main Office (Hauptamt SS-Gericht) - one of the 12 SS main departments - was the legal department of the SS in Nazi Germany. Schutzstaffel and SS Court Main Office are Nazi SS.

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SS Education Office

The SS Education Office (SS-Schulungsamt) was one of the Nazi organizations responsible for the ideological indoctrination of members of the SS. Schutzstaffel and SS Education Office are Nazi Party organizations and Nazi SS.

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SS Führungshauptamt

The SS Führungshauptamt (SS Leadership Main Office) (SS-FHA) was the operational headquarters of the SS during the Nazi era. Schutzstaffel and SS Führungshauptamt are Nazi SS.

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SS Main Economic and Administrative Office

The SS Main Economic and Administrative Office (SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt; SS-WVHA) was a Nazi organization responsible for managing the finances, supply systems and business projects of the Allgemeine-SS (a main branch of the Schutzstaffel; SS). Schutzstaffel and sS Main Economic and Administrative Office are Nazi SS.

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SS Main Office

The SS Main Office (SS-Hauptamt; SS-HA) was the central command office of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in Nazi Germany until 1940. Schutzstaffel and SS Main Office are Nazi SS.

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SS Personnel Main Office

The SS Personnel Main Office (SS Personalhauptamt) was established on 1 June 1939 from the personnel department in Himmler's personal staff. Schutzstaffel and sS Personnel Main Office are Nazi SS.

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SS Race and Settlement Main Office

The SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS, RuSHA) was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial 'purity' of the SS" within Nazi Germany. Schutzstaffel and SS Race and Settlement Main Office are Heinrich Himmler.

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SS-Begleitkommando des Führers

SS-Begleitkommando des Führers ("SS Escort Command of the Führer"; SS-BKdF), later known as the Führerbegleitkommando ("Führer Escort Command"; FBK), was originally an eight-man SS squad formed from a twelve-man security squad (known as the SS-Begleitkommando) tasked with protecting the life of Adolf Hitler during the early 1930s. Schutzstaffel and sS-Begleitkommando des Führers are Nazi SS.

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SS-Junker Schools

SS-Junker Schools (German SS-Junkerschulen) were leadership training facilities for officer candidates of the Schutzstaffel (SS). Schutzstaffel and SS-Junker Schools are Nazi Party organizations and Nazi SS.

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SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer

SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer was (from 1942 to 1945) the highest commissioned rank in the Schutzstaffel (SS), with the exception of Reichsführer-SS, which became a commissioned rank when held by SS commander Heinrich Himmler.

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SS-Totenkopfverbände

SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) was the Schutzstaffel (SS) organization created in 1933 responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties. Schutzstaffel and sS-Totenkopfverbände are Nazi SS and the Holocaust.

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SS-Verfügungstruppe

SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT) was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Schutzstaffel and SS-Verfügungstruppe are Nazi SS.

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St Nazaire Raid

The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War.

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Stabschef

Stabschef was an office and paramilitary rank in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary stormtroopers associated with the Nazi Party.

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Standartenführer

Standartenführer (short: Staf) was a Nazi Party (NSDAP) paramilitary rank that was used in several NSDAP organizations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

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State terrorism

State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism which a state conducts against another state or against its own citizens.

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Stoßtrupp-Hitler

Stoßtrupp-Hitler or Stosstrupp-Hitler ("Shock-Troop-Hitler") was a small, short-lived bodyguard unit set up specifically for Adolf Hitler in 1923.

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Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung (SA; literally "Storm Division" or Storm Troopers) was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. Schutzstaffel and Sturmabteilung are military wings of fascist parties and Nazi Party organizations.

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Sturmbannführer

Sturmbannführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank equivalent to major that was used in several Nazi organizations, such as the SA, SS, and the NSFK.

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Subsequent Nuremberg trials

The subsequent Nuremberg trials (also Nuremberg Military Tribunals; 1946–1949) were twelve military tribunals for war crimes committed by the leaders of Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Sudetenland

The Sudetenland (Czech and Sudety) is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans.

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Summary execution

In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial.

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Superior orders

Superior orders, also known as the Nuremberg defense or just following orders, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether a member of the military, law enforcement, or the civilian population, should not be considered guilty of committing crimes that were ordered by a superior officer or official.

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Teutonic Order

The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich

The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich is a two-volume text edited by and, first published in German in 1985.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Theo Saevecke

Theodor Emil Saevecke (–) was an SS officer and perpetrator of the Holocaust in Poland and the Holocaust in Italy.

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Theodor Eicke

Theodor Eicke (17 October 1892 – 26 February 1943) was a senior SS functionary and Waffen SS divisional commander during the Nazi era.

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Third Battle of Kharkov

The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Army Group South of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov between 19 February and 15 March 1943.

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Torzeniec

Torzeniec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Doruchów, within Ostrzeszów County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland.

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Totenkopf

Totenkopf (i.e. skull, literally "dead person's head") is the German word for skull.

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Trawniki men

During World War II, Trawniki men (Trawnikimänner) were Central and Eastern European Nazi collaborators, consisting of either volunteers or recruits from prisoner-of-war camps set up by Nazi Germany for Soviet Red Army soldiers captured in the border regions during Operation Barbarossa launched in June 1941. Schutzstaffel and Trawniki men are the Holocaust.

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Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

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Tscherim Soobzokov

Tscherim "Tom" Soobzokov (24 August 1924 – 6 September 1985) was a Circassian spy, American politician, SS Obersturmführer, and Nazi fugitive.

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Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany

Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany took place during the occupation of Poland and the Ukrainian SSR, USSR, by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.

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Upper middle class

In sociology, the upper middle class is the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class.

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Vire

Vire is a town and a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle

In Nazi Germany the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. or VoMi. (Coordination Center for Ethnic Germans) was a Nazi Party agency founded to manage the interests of the Volksdeutsche. - the population of ethnic Germans living outside the Third Reich.

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Volkssturm

The Volkssturm ("people's storm") was a levée en masse national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II.

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Volunteer Legion Netherlands

The Volunteer Legion Netherlands (Vrijwilligerslegioen Nederland) was a collaborationist military formation recruited in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II.

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Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Schutzstaffel and Waffen-SS are military wings of fascist parties and Nazi SS.

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Walloon Legion

The Walloon Legion (Légion Wallonie, "Wallonia Legion") was a unit of the German Army (Wehrmacht) and later of the Waffen-SS recruited among French-speaking collaborationists in German-occupied Belgium during World War II.

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Walter Schellenberg

Walter Friedrich Schellenberg (16 January 1910 – 31 March 1952) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.

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Wannsee Conference

The Wannsee Conference (Wannseekonferenz) was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel (SS) leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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Warsaw Ghetto boy

In the best-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a boy holds his hands over his head while SS-Rottenführer Josef Blösche points a submachine gun in his direction.

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.

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Włocławek

Włocławek (Leslau or Alt Lesle, Yiddish: וולאָצלאַוועק, romanized: Vlatzlavek) is a city in the Kuyavian–Pomeranian Voivodeship in central Poland along the Vistula River, bordered by the Gostynin-Włocławek Landscape Park.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

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Westphalia

Westphalia (Westfalen; Westfalen) is a region of northwestern Germany and one of the three historic parts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Wewelsburg

Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren, Westphalia, in the Landkreis of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Schutzstaffel and Wewelsburg are Nazi SS.

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Wilhelm Frick

Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a convicted war criminal and prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

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Wilhelm Höttl

Wilhelm Höttl or Hoettl (19 March 1915 – 27 June 1999) was an Austrian Nazi Party member, and SS member who rose to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Wormhoudt massacre

The Wormhoudt massacre (or Wormhout massacre) was the mass murder of 81 British and French POWs by Waffen-SS soldiers from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during the Battle of France in May 1940.

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Wormhout

Wormhout (before 1975: Wormhoudt; Wormout) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Złoczew

Złoczew (1939-45 Schlötzau) is a town in Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,340 inhabitants (2020).

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Zyklon B

Zyklon B (translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s.

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10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg

The 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsberg" (10.) was a German Waffen-SS armoured division during World War II. Schutzstaffel and 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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116th Panzer Division

The 116th Panzer Division, also known as the "Windhund (Greyhound) Division", was a German armoured formation that saw combat during World War II.

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11th Army (Wehrmacht)

The 11th Army (11.) was a World War II field army.

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11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland

The 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland (11.) was a Waffen-SS division primarily raised with Germans and ethnic Germans from Romania, but also foreign volunteers from Western Europe.

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12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

The SS Division Hitlerjugend or 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitlerjugend" (12.) was a German armoured division of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

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13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)

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.

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17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen

The 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division "Götz von Berlichingen" (17.) was a German Waffen-SS division that saw action on the Western Front during World War II.

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1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler

The 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or SS Division Leibstandarte, abbreviated as LSSAH (1.), began as Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard unit, responsible for guarding the Führer's person, offices, and residences.

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1st SS-Standarte

The 1st SS-Standarte was a regimental command of the Allgemeine-SS and one of the units in the General-SS order of battle. Schutzstaffel and 1st SS-Standarte are Nazi SS.

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21st Panzer Division

The 21st Panzer Division was a German armoured division best known for its role in the battles of the North African Campaign from 1941 to 1943 during World War II when it was one of the two armoured divisions making up the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK).

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21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg

The 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) was a German mountain infantry division of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the German Nazi Party that served alongside, but was never formally part of, the Wehrmacht during World War II.

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2nd Infantry Division (United States)

The 2nd Infantry Division (2ID, 2nd ID) ("Indianhead") is a formation of the United States Army.

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2nd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

The 2nd Panzer Division (English: 2nd Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army, the Heer, during World War II.

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2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich

The 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich (2. SS-Panzerdivision "Das Reich".) or SS Division Das Reich was an armored division of the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. Schutzstaffel and 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne

The Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS Charlemagne (Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS "Charlemagne") was a Waffen-SS unit formed in September 1944 from French collaborationists, many of whom were already serving in various other German units.

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4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division

The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) or SS Division Polizei was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II.

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5th SS Panzer Division Wiking

The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking (5. SS-Panzerdivision Wiking.) or SS Division Wiking was an infantry and later an armoured division among the thirty-eight Waffen-SS divisions of Nazi Germany. Schutzstaffel and 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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6th Panzer Army

The 6th Panzer Army (6.) was a formation of the German Army, formed in the autumn of 1944.

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716th Static Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 716th Static Infantry Division (German: 716. Infanterie-Division) was a World War II, German Army infantry division.

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7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

The 7th Panzer Division was an armored formation of the German Army in World War II. Schutzstaffel and 7th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer

The 8th SS Cavalry Division "Florian Geyer" was a German Waffen-SS cavalry division during World War II.

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99th Infantry Division (United States)

The 99th Infantry Division briefly existed, but never deployed, in the closing days of World War I, was reconstituted as a reserve unit in 1921, was ordered into active military service in 1942, and deployed overseas in 1944.

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9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen

The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" (9. SS-Panzerdivision "Hohenstaufen".) was a Waffen-SS armoured division of Nazi Germany during World War II. Schutzstaffel and 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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See also

Heinrich Himmler

Military wings of fascist parties

Nazi terrorism

Nazi terrorist organizations

Right-wing terrorism

The Holocaust in Germany

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

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