Editing Schutzstaffel (section)

===Sturmbannführer (Major)===
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|[[Sturmbannführer]]
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|Franz Abromeid
|IV B 4 of the Serbian Higher SS Division.
|272353
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|329305
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|Georg Ahlemann
|SS Division Nord and Estonian Legion
|50686
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|124829
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|Kurt-Oskar Albert
|Former Adjutant of Dachau; Kdr. of the (Pz.) Pi. Btl. 5 of the 5 SS-Panzer-Division 'Wiking'
|9230
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|374739
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|[[Hans Aumeier]]
|Deputy Commandant KZ Auschwitz
|2.700
|August 1929
|164.755
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|[[Richard Baer (Nazi)]]
|Commander at KZ Auschwitz I
|44225
|1932
|454991
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|[[Kurt Bartsch]]
|SS Kavallerie-Ausbidldungs und Ersatz-Abteilung 8
|460 816 (V)
|1942
|None
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|Dr. Gerhard Bast
|Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7a Commander (June - October/November 1944), Einsatzgruppe D, Einsatzkommando 11a Commander (November - December 1942)
|23064
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|612972
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|[[Rudolf Batz]]
|Born 10 November 1903. leader of [[Einsatzkommando]] 2; KdS (Kommandeur der [[Sicherheitspolizei]]) in [[Cracow]] and shortly after that became the head of the [[Gestapo]] in [[Hannover]]. Committed suicide after 1961 arrest.
|272458
|10 December 1935
|2955
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|[[Ernst Biberstein]]
|Commander of SS action command 6/action group C [EK 6/Egr. C].<br />Tried 1947/1948 and sentenced to death. Sentence commuted to Life imprisonment in 1951. After 1958 prison release, reported to have been part of the Gehlen Org. Died 8 December 1986.
|272962
|13 Sep 1936
|40718
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|Wilhelm Josef Blum
|born 30 April 1890 Dellwig/Essen. Attached to Oa Ost. Obersturmbannführer 20.3.1934 Sturmbannführer (Fachführer) Stab SSPF Globconik in Lublin. Died 1948 Radom Poland
|8005
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|242082
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|Wilhelm Blühm
|Born 3 January 1899 Berlin. Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7c Commander (1942 - July 1943). Killed in USSR July 1943
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|Fridrich-Wilhelm Bock
|Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7c Commander (June 1942)later promoted to Oberführer (Senior Colonel) {See listing there}
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|Hans-Joachim Böhme
|Einsatzgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 3 Commander (11 May - July 1944);According to the Verdict of LG Ulm on 29.8.1958 Böhme (Stapoleiter Tilsit, KdS Zhitomir, KdS Kaunas) was only Stubaf.
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|[[Karl Bömelburg]]
|[[Gestapo]] leader in France
|35898
|1931
|892239
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|[[Wernher von Braun]]
|[[Allgemeine-SS]] battalion officer (also SS Horseriding Club)
|185068
|1940
|5,738,692
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|Reinhard Breder
|Einsatzgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 2 Commander (26 March 1943 - July 1943)
|116663
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|5653771
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|[[Anton Burger]]
|Commandant of [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]]
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|Theodor Christensen
|Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 4a Commander (March - December 1943)
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|Dr. Kurt Christmann
|Einsatzgruppe D, Einsatzkommando 10a Commander (August 1942 - July 1943)
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|[[Joseph Darnand]]
|French Waffen-SS Foreign Legion Commander
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|[[Walter Drexler]]
|Awarded [[Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross]]
|239247
|March 1938
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|[[Emmeran Dummler]]
|Hauptman d.R
|11769
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|298748
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|Hans Eckhardt
|Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7c Commander (July - December 1943)
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|Reinhard Ellmenreich
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|12564
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|Siegfried Engel
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|272559
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|Günther Farohs
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|62 935
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|2 331 191
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|Dr. Emil FINNBERG
|born 27 June 1909. SS-Hauptsturmführer u. Regierungsassessor Dr. Finnberg Adjutant (to Dr. Hans Nockemann), Amt II, RSHA (March 1941). SS-Sturmbannführer: 09.11.1942. RSHA (10.43); Befehlsblatt des Chefs d.Sich.Pol. u. d. SD Nr. 15/44 from 08.04.1944 „Die Abordnung des Stubaf. Reg.Rat. Dr. FINNBERG (Stapoleitst. Breslau) zum BdSuSD in Paris ist aufgehoben“
|194.365
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|3 027 410
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|[[Otto Förschner]]
|KZ Commandant
|191.554
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|5 274 260
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|[[Walter Gerth]]
|Awarded Knights Cross. Member of 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH
|372351
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|[[Kurt Gildisch]]
|Co founder of [[SS-Begleitkommando des Führers]]
|13.138
|1931
|690.762
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|Kurt Graaf
|born 8 January 1909, Einsatzgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 1c Commander (1 August - 28 November 1942)
|36179
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|183351
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|[[Adam Grünewald]]
|Commandant of [[Herzogenbusch concentration camp]]
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|1934
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|[[Hans Günther (SS officer)|Hans Günther]]
|[[Adolf Eichmann]] deputy; Brother of Rolf Günther
|290.129
|1937
|119.925
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|[[Rolf Günther]]
|[[Adolf Eichmann]] deputy; Brother of Hans Günther
|290.130
|1937
|472.421
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|Herbert Hagen
|Tried 1979 with [[Kurt Lischka]] and [[Ernest Heinrichson]] for war crimes
|124 273
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|4 583 139
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|Joachim Hamann
|[[Einsatzkommando]] 3 and 4b 22.6.41 – 2.10.1941 {Listed in [[Jäger Report]]
|314267
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|958322
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|Albert Hartl
|born 13 November 1904. Chief of the Church Information Branch at the [[Reich Main Security Office]]
|107050
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|Dr. Hermann Heerdt
|leader of KdS Rennes.
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|Gustav Herd
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|Werner Hersmann
|Einsatzgruppe D, Einsatzkommando 11a Commander (December 1942 - May 1943)
|9416
|April 1931
|298562
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|Ernest Himmler
|Brother of [[Heinrich Himmler]]. SS-Führer beim Stab des Chefs des Fernmeldewesens beim RFSS
|132099
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|676777
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|[[Wilhelm Höttl]]
|RSHA Officer
|309510
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|6309616
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|[[Hermann Höfle]]
|Deputy head of the [[Aktion Reinhard]] programme. Postwar member of [[Reinhard Gehlen#Gehlen Organization|Gehlen Organization]]
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|307469
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|Rudolf Hotzel
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|113526
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|Dr. Hermann Hubig
|Einsatgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 1b Commander (June - October 1942)
|290303
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|2709693
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|Heinz Hufenbach
|Born 29/10/1917 in Wernigerode.00.00.39 - 09.11.42 beim Ic SS Division "Totenkopf"; 2/Flak-Abt.3 from 7-41; 4/T.I.R.3 from 10-41; He was also 02 as of 1.1.1942 from Kriegsrankliste Kommando SS-Totenkopf-Division; SS-Hauptsturmführer der Waffen-SS 20.04.1942; 09.11.42 - 22.10.43 Ib SS Panzergrenadier-Division "Totenkopf";3ª SS Panzer Division from 12-43; was Totenkopf's 01 in the divisional staff from December 1943 till he left for 27.SS-Freiw.Gren.Division "Langemarck";22.10.43 - 20.01.44 Ib 3 SS-Panzer-Division "Totenkopf" ; SS-Sturmbannführer der Waffen-SS 21.06.1944; From 11-44 till 5-45 Chief of Staff(Ia)with the 27. SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division 'Langemarck'(flämische Nr. 1).
|351.215
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|Dr. Erich Isselhorst
|Einsatzgruppe A, Sonderkommando 1b Commander (30 June - 1 October 1943), Einsatzkommando 1a Commander (November 1942 - June 1943), Einsatzgruppe B, Einsatzkommando 8 Commander (September - November 1943)
|267313
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|1269847
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|Professor [[Herbert Jankuhn]]
|member of [[Ahnenerbe]]
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|Eduard Jedamzik
|Einsatzgruppe D, Einsatzkommando 10b Commander (December 1942 - February 1943)
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|Werner Kämpf
|Einsatzgruppe B, Einsatzkommando 9 Commander (October 1943 - March 1944)
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|[[Helmut Kämpfe]]
|SS Officer captured by the French Resistance which led to [[Oradour sur Glane]] massacre
|124.465
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|2.387.476
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|Frederich Keidel
|Served with SS-TIR 1, SS-Inf.Rgt.9, with the Prinz Eugen Division and commander of SS-Geb.Rgt. 51. Later serving as co for SS-Pz.AA2 and at last in SS-Pz.Brig. Gross. Prior to his service in the W-SS, Keidel was assigned to the SS-Totenkopfstandarte Brandenburg. Killed in action in August 1944 in Kurland attached to Pz.Brig. Gross. Also Listed 01.07.1944 DAL der Waffen-SS as previous CO. SS-Panzer Aufklärungs Abteilung 3. After that also listed as CO 2. Rgt. 21. Waffen-Gebirgs Division. According to this DAL he was killed in action 26 October 1944.
|323037
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|5258684
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|[[Karl-Heinz Keitel]]
| Kavallerie-Regiment Nord; [[22nd SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Maria Theresia]]; [[37th SS Volunteer Cavalry Division Lützow]]
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|Hans [[Josef Kieffer]]
|Deputy [[Gestapo]] leader in France
|280104
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|2632427
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|[[Ludwig Kepplinger]]
| was a Sturmbannführer (Major), in the Waffen-SS during World War II
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|[[Wilhelm Kment]]
|Commander, 1st Company, [[SS Division Das Reich|2nd SS Panzer Division ''Das Reich'']]<br />Decorated personally by Himmler
|167103
|Prior to 1935
|4262124
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|[[Werner Knab]]
|Gestapo chief in Norway<br />Commander of the [[Sicherheitspolizei|Security Police]] in [[Lyon]], France
|191584
|1935
|3269940
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|Alois Knabel
|Member of SS-Panzergrenadier-Ausbildungs-und-Ersatz-Batallion 18. He killed a Jewish family in the Ukraine; later, tried and convicted in France in 1952 for additional war crimes from 1944; death sentence was commuted to life-hard labor. He committed suicide in Germany in June 1965 while awaiting trial for war crimes
|141093
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|[[Horst Kopkow]]
|Counterintelligence; Postwar employee of [[MI6]]
|46034
|1931
|607161
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|[[Gerald Krause]]
|SS foreign legion commander
|565 781
|1940
|67 324
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|Waldemar Krause
|Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 4b commander (August 1943 - January 1944)
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|[[Bernhard Krüger]]
|Leader of VI F4A ([[RSHA]]) aka [[Operation Bernhard]]
|15429
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|528729
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|Dr [[Helmut Kunz]]
|Waffen SS medical Office
|284787
|1936
|5104323
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|Dr. [[Rudolf Lange]]
|Einsatzgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 2 Commander (3 December 1941 - 1944)
|290308
|1936
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|[[Hans Latza]]
|[[SS and Police Leader|HSSP]] Norway
|129260
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|2180945
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|[[Ernst Lerch]]
| [[Operation Reinhard]]
|309,700
|1 March 1934
|1,327,396
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|[[Heinz Linge]]
|Hitler's valet
|35795
|1932
|1.260.490
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|Helmut Looss
|Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7a Commander (June 1943 - June 1944)
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|Franz Lucas
|Himmer's Driver. Born 12 December 1901. SS-Sturmbannführer der Waffen-SS – Promotion 21 June 1944
|46676
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|748829
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|Heinrich Massar
|Einsatzgruppe A, Parade Einheit Pferd Torhuter
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|1930
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|[[Ricard Edwin Mattel]]
|Gynecology, Kaisern Elisabethspital, Vienna, 1940
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|4 Nov 1938
|6212863
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|Dr. Karl Maulaz
|leader of SD (Amt III) in BdS Frankreich.
|342.752
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|August Meier
|Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 5 Commander (September 1941 - January 1942)
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|[[Hubert-Erwin Meierdress]]
|Panzer ace with 1st and 2nd SS Divisions
|265243
|1 August 1934
|3601911
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|[[Georg Konrad Morgen]]
|SS judge and lawyer
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|Dr. Erich Müller
|Einsatzgruppe D, Einsatzkommando 12 Commander (February - October 1942)
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|[[Alfred Naujocks]]
|An SD commander, leader of the [[Gleiwitz incident]]
|624279
|1930 or 1931
|26246
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|Walter Odewald
|Kriminalrat der Polizei; Abteilung V with the BdS in France and Prague; head of the nichtuniformierten Polizei in the Protectorat Böhmen-Möhren. Post World War II Oberregierungsrat within the Landesamt für Verfassungschutz in Niedersachse
|323731
|1937
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|Dr. Theodor Paeffgen
|born 12 June 1910
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|Dr. Manfred Pechau
|Einsatzgruppe A, Einsatzkommando 1b Commander (October - November 1942), Einsatzkommando 2 Commander (October 1942)
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|Johannes Post
|Kriminalkommissar; Executed 1948 after being tried for involvement in killing of POWs in [[Stalag Luft III escape|The Great Escape]]
|313999
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|465273
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|Oskar Radke
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|107194
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|[[Paul Otto Radomski]]
|[[Commandant]] of the [[Syrets concentration camp]] and [[Haidari concentration camp]]
|2.235
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|96.942
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|[[Karl Rahm]]
|[[Commandant]] of the [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]]
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|Günther Rausch
|Einsatzgruppe B, Sonderkommando 7b Commander (June 1941 - January/February 1942)
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|Heinz Rennau
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|280275
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|Heinz Richter
|Einsatzgruppe B, Einsatzkommando 8 Commander (1 April - September 1942)
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|Peter Romhur
|Born 01.04.1907 Kiel Germany. The first Kommandeur of the Nachrichtenabteilung of 22.Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division.
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|[[Albert Sauer]]
|Kommandant of KZ Mauthausen; KZ Riga/Kaiserwald and KZ Ravensbruck
|19180
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|Dr. Alfred Schimmel
|Chief, Stapoleitstelle Straßburg; Executed 1948 after being tried for involvement in killing of POWs in [[Stalag Luft III escape|The Great Escape]]
|280336
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|400086
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|Friedrich Schmidt
|Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 4a Commander (January - February 1943)
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|[[:de:Fritz Schmidt (Gestapo)|Fritz Schmidt]]
|Kiel Gestapo-involved in killing members of [[Stalag Luft III escape|The Great Escape]]
|290.023
|1937
|455.700
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|Dr. Johannes (Hans) Schmidt
|Involved in killing General [[Kurt von Schleicher]] and his wife 1934; 1/10/1944 Stab Abschnitt XXVII
|36232
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|Helmut Schöne
|Was brought before an SS Court charged with habitual drunkeness and the misuse of service transport. Found guilty he was demoted in rank to Stumbannführer 1,7,1939 with senority from 7.7.1939
|48600
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|[[Herbert Scholz]]
|Also Major der Schutzpolizei(Schupo); SS- und Polizeigebietsführer in Norway and in The Netherlands; also Polizeidirektor in Augsburg.
|308.265
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|2.840.674
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|Joseph Schreider
|Born 15 August 1904 Munich Germany. 23 May 1923 joined Munich Police; 13 March 1933, Polizeidirektion/Pol.Abt. becomes Bavarian Political Police. Jan 1938, KK and Grenzpolizeikommissariatleiter Lindau; later Bregenz; May 1940, KR with Gestapo Innsbruck, Abteilungsleiter Spionageabwehr; In July 1940 he became chief of Referat IV-E(contraspionage)within the Staf from the BdS in the Netherlands. 15 Aug 1940, SS-Hstuf KR, BdS Den Haag, Abt.leiter Spionageabwehr. After WW-II he was acquitted and he became Oberregierungsrat in Bavaria. In 1955 alleged to be working for [[Radio Free Europe]].
|107184
|15 August 1934
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|[[Adolf Schulz-Lenhardt]]
|Detective (''Kriminalrat''), cities of [[Hamm]] and [[Magdeburg]]
|290716
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|Dr [[Horst Schumann]]
|Involved in human Experiments
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|190.002
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|Adolf Schwarzmaier
|SS Cavalry Regiment 16
|103.063
|2 May 1933
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|[[Otto Skorzeny]]
|Waffen SS/RSHA commando leader
|295979
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|Franz Sprinz
|Einsatzgruppe E
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|Kurt Stawitzki/Stawizki
|Section 4 [[Gestapo]]} [[Lviv]]; killed theologian [[Friedrich von Rabenau]] April 1945<br />died 20 Sep 1959 in Bad Godesberg aka "Kurt Stein"
|44889
|1932
|1114037
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|Eugen Steimle
|Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 4a Commander (August 1942 - 15 January 1943)
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|[[Karl Streibel]]
|Specialist Officer attached to Staff Oberabschnitt Ost as referent zbz in Arbeitsstab der Allgemeine SS Lublin; duty as leiter der Ausbildungslager Trawinki in stab SSPF Lublin
|60152
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|Friedrich Sühr
|Einsatzgruppe C, Einsatzkommando 4b Commander (November 1942 - August 1943)
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|Hans Unglaube
|Einsatzgruppe D, Einsatzkommando 11b Commander (June - July 1941)
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|Dr. [[Carl Værnet]]
|Involved in human experiments
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|Hans Ulrich von Ortel
| Operation Longjump: a plan to assassinate the big three at the Tehran Summit. Soviet intelligence quickly uncovered the plot. The first tipoff came from Soviet agent Nikolai Kuznetsov. Posing as Wehrmacht Oberleutnant Paul Siebert from Nazi-occupied Ukraine, he got SS Sturmbannführer Hans Ulrich von Ortel – who was described as "talkative" and "a drinker"[3] – to tell him about the operation while drunk
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|Kurt Walter
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|Karl Westphal
|Leader of Kds St Quentin/Kds Orleans
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|Dr. [[Albert Widmann]]
|born 1912. Chemist involved in [[Action T4]] killings and human experiments. Arrested 1959-served 6 years. Died 1986
|351098
|December 1939
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|[[Christian Wirth]]
|Commandant of [[Bełżec extermination camp]]
|345.464
|April 1939
|420.383
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|[[Eduard Wirths]]
|Chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarztat) at the Auschwitz extermination camp
|311.594
|1934
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|Oskar Wittich
|Born 2 July 1897
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|Hans-Helmuth Wolff
|SS-RSHA; Between ?? till the end of April 1945 he was Kommandeur der Sipo en SD (KdS, he succeeded R. Schröder) in Weimar. At the beginning of April 1945 he was responsible for the murder on around 150 Gestapo-prisoners in Weimar.
|290.186
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