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The Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. ' Armed SS ') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both German-occupied Europe and unoccupied lands. [3] It was disbanded in May 1945.
The SS Officers' Service Records consist of personnel dossiers for more than 61,000 SS officers with the rank of SS Untersturmführer (second lieutenant) and above, arranged alphabetically by surname.
This table contains the final ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS, which were in use from April 1942 to May 1945, in comparison to the Wehrmacht. [1] The highest ranks of the combined SS (German: Gesamt-SS) was that of Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions. [2]
The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) served to distinguish its Nazi paramilitary ranks between 1925 and 1945 from the ranks of the Wehrmacht (the German armed forces from 1935), the German state, and the Nazi Party.
The Waffen -SS (German pronunciation: [ vaf %n.-s.-s], Armed SS ) was created as the armed wing of the Nazi Party 's Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron"), [2] and gradually developed into a multi -ethnic and multi -national military force of Nazi Germany .
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Physical Training. Waffen SS Volunteers from the Netherlands training in 1940. The men admitted into the SS were to be no older than the age of 23 and to stand at least 1.74 meters tall. They were to be of nordic or germanic blood and needed to be clean of “mutation” or “malformation”.
