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===Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General)===
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! bgcolor="#efefef" | Name
! bgcolor="#efefef" | Position
! bgcolor="#efefef" | SS number
! bgcolor="#efefef" | Joined SS
! bgcolor="#efefef" | Party number
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|[[Friedrich Alpers]]
|Staatssekretär / SS-Obergruppenführer /Staatsrat / Generalforstmeister /Major der Reserve (Luftwaffe)
|6427
|March 1931
|132812
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|[[Max Amann]]
|Honorary SS Member. Party leader for the Reich of the Department Press
|53143
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|3
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|[[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski]]
|Higher SS and Police Leader of Central Russia
|9831
|15 February 1931
|489101
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|[[Herbert Backe]]
|Minister of Agriculture 1944–1945
|22766
|1 October 1933
|87882
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|[[Gottlob Berger]]
|Commander of the [[SS-Hauptamt]]
|275991
|1936
|426875
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|[[Werner Best]]
|Reich Plenipotentiary of Denmark
|23377
|1931
|341338
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|[[Wilhelm Bittrich]]
|Waffen SS combat commander, [[II SS Panzerkorps]]
|39177
|1934
|829700
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|[[Ernst Wilhelm Bohle]]
|Leader of the [[NSDAP/AO|National Socialist German Workers' Party Foreign Organization]]
|276915
|13 Sep 1933
|999185
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|[[Martin Bormann]]
|Secretary of Hitler
Party leader for the Reich in charge of the NSDAP Chancellery
|555
|September 1929
|60508
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|[[Philipp Bouhler]]
|Head of the [[Action T4]]
Party Leader for the Reich in charge of the Führer Chancellery
|54932
|20 April 1933
|12
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|[[Franz Breithaupt]]
|Commanding general of the [[SS and Police Court]]s
|39719
|1 December 1932
|602663
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|[[Walter Buch]]
|Party Leader for the Reich as Chairman of the Inquiry and Mediation Board
|81353
|1 July 1933
|7733
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|[[Richard Walther Darré]]
|First Director of the Race and Settlement Office ('Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt' or RuSHA), and Minister of the Reich for Food and Agriculture
|6882
|July 1930
|248156
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|[[Karl-Maria Demelhuber]]
|Commanded the [[2nd SS Division Das Reich|SS-Standarte Germania]], [[6th SS Mountain Division Nord|6. SS-Gebirgs-Division ''Nord'']], [[XII SS Corps (Germany)|XII. SS-Armeekorps]] and [[XVI SS Corps (Germany)|XVI. SS-Armeekorps]].
|252392
|15 March 1935
|4439
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|[[Otto Dietrich]]
|Party Leader for the Reich as NSDAP Press Chief<br />Honorary rank
|101349
|1932
|126727
|-
|[[Karl von Eberstein]]
|Early member of the Nazi party, the SA, the SS, Reichstag delegate, an HSSPF and SS-Oberabschnitt Führer, head of the Munich Police in World War II,
|1386
|1 April 1929
|15067
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|[[Joachim Albrecht Eggeling]]
|Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt<br />High President of Merseburg
|186155
|1935
|11579
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|[[Theodor Eicke]]
|First chief of the Inspektion der Konzentrationslager ([[Concentration Camps Inspectorate]]) and commander of the [[SS Totenkopf Division]]
|2921
|August 1930
|114901
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|[[Karl Fiehler]]
|Lord mayor of [[Munich]]/Party Leader of the Reich in charge of the communal policy
|91724
|31 July 1933
|37
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|[[Albert Forster]]
|Gauleiter of Danzig
|158
|12 June 1926
|1924
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|[[Karl Hermann Frank]]
|Higher SS and Police Leader of Bohemia and Moravia.
| 310466
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|6600002
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|[[August Frank]]
| Frank became SS Administrative Officer of the Special Purpose Troops (SS-Verfügungstruppe) and of the concentration camp guards, the SS Death's Head units (SS-Totenkopfverbände), although the presence of a bureaucratic rival somewhat limited his authority in the second capacity. In February 1940, Frank became chief supply officer of the Waffen SS and Death's Head units under Pohl.
|5669
|8 April 1932
|1471185
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|[[Herbert Otto Gille]]
|Waffen SS commander
|39854
|December 1931
|537337
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|[[Curt von Gottberg]]
|Also General der Waffen-SS
|45923
|September 1932
|948753
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|[[Ernst-Robert Grawitz]]
|Also General of Waffen SS; Reichsarzt SS and Polizei; Head of German Red Cross; son in law of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Siegfried Taubert
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|November 1931
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|[[Ulrich Greifelt]]
| rank of Major General by 1941, and then being appointed as "Chief of SS German Nationhood Staff", a position he held from November 1941 through his arrest by the Allied Forces in May 1945.
|72909
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|1667407
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|[[Arthur Greiser]]
|[[Gauleiter]] of [[Reichsgau Wartheland]]
|10795
|1929
|166635
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|[[Karl Gutenberger]]
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|372303
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|25249
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|[[August Heissmeyer]]
|Commander of the SS Education Department
|4370
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|21573
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|[[Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf]]
|Not member of SS, but wore the uniform of an SS-Obergruppenführer uniform in his capacity as Polizeipresident Berlin
SA Obergruppenführer
|None
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|[[Rudolf Hess]]
|Also Deputy-Führer of the [[NSDAP]] until 1941
|50
|1 November 1925
|16
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|[[Konrad Henlein]]
|[[Gauleiter]] of the [[Sudetenland]]
|310307
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|6600001
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|[[Maximilian von Herff]]
|Commander of the SS Personnel Department
|405894
|1 April 1942
|8858661
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|[[Reinhard Heydrich]]
|Chief of the [[RSHA]]; President of Interpol; chaired the 1942 [[Wannsee Conference]]; Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
|10120
|14 July 1931
|544916
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|[[Richard Hildebrandt]]
|Led the [[SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt]]
|7088
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|89221
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|[[Karl Höfer]]
|Oldest member of SS-born 29 December 1862
|276338
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|[[Hermann Höfle (SS general)|Hermann Höfle]]
|Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia
|463903
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|3924970
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|[[Friedrich Jeckeln]]
|Higher SS and Police Leader of Eastern Russia
|4367
|12 January 1930
|163348
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|[[Hans Jüttner]]
|Commander of the [[SS-Führungshauptamt]]
|264497
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|541163
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|[[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]]
|Second Chief of the [[RSHA]] after Heydrich's assassination
|13039
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|300179
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|[[Hans Kammler]]
|Head of [[V-2 rocket|V-2]] program
|113619
|20 May 1933
|1011855
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|[[Jürgen von Kamptz]]
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|292714
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|1258905
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|[[Georg Keppler]]
| Keppler commanded the 2. SS-Division Das Reich, 3. SS-Division Totenkopf, I. SS-Panzerkorps, III.(germanische) SS-Panzerkorps and the XVIII.SS-Armee-Korps.
|273799
|10 October 1935
|338211
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|[[Wilhelm Karl Keppler]]
|Secretary of state in Foreign Office; founder of the [[Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft]]
|50816
|August 1932
|62424
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|[[Matthias Kleinheisterkamp]]
|[[Waffen SS]] Divisional and Corps Commander
|132399
|8 January 1934
|4158838
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|[[Kurt Knoblauch]]
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|266653
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|2750158
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|[[Erich Koch]]
|Geuleiter of the Nazi Party in East Prussia from 1933 until 1945, Chief of Civil Administration of Bezirk Bialystok,1941-1945 and Reichskommissar in Reichkommissariat Ukraine from 1941-1943.
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|1938
|90
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|[[Wilhelm Koppe]]
|[[SS and Police Leader|Höhere SS und Polizei Führer, HSSP]]
|25955
|2 January 1932
|305584
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|[[Paul Körner|Paul ("Pilli") Körner]]
| Staatssekretär
|714328
|1931
|714328
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|[[Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger]]
|Higher SS and Police Leader of Poland
|6123
|16 March 1931
|3995130
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|[[Walter Krüger (SS general)|Walter Krüger]]
|Commander of :<br />[[4 SS|4th SS Polizei Panzer Division]]<br />[[SS Division Das Reich|2nd SS Panzer Division ''Das Reich'']]<br />[[IV SS Panzer Corps]]<br />[[VI SS Panzer Corps]]
|266184
|
|3991530
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|[[Hans Lammers]]
|Minister of the Reich/Head of the [[Reich Chancellery]]<br />Honorary rank
|118404
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|1010355
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|[[Hartmann Lauterbacher]]
|Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter / Oberpräsident / SS-Obergruppenführer /M.d.R. / Preußischen Staatsrat
|382406
|9 November 1940
|86837
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|[[Werner Lorenz]]
|Commander of the Office of Ethnic Germanization (SS-Hauptamt Volkdeutsche Mittelstelle)
|6636
|1931
|337994
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|[[Benno Martin]]
|SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS and Police and Higher SS leader (Polizei und Höherer SS) in Nuremberg.
|187117
|10 April 1934
|2714474
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|Dr [[Heinrich von Maur]]
|Born 19 July 1863. Char. General der Artillerie<br />Regional leader of the NS-Reichskriegerbund (Veterans World War I NS association) in Wurttemberg
|276907
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|5890310
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|[[Emil Mazuw]]
| Landeshauptmann (nominal governor) of the Province of Pomerania from 1940 to 1945. He was a member of the SS since 1933. He held the ranks of SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Waffen-SS (1944), General of Police (1942) and Ostsee Higher SS and Police leader (1939–1945). He was engaged in euthanasia during the Second World War. He was convicted after the war of crimes associated with abuses of political prisoners and Jews. He was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment.
|2556
|7 June 1930
|85231
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|[[Konstantin von Neurath]]
|German Foreign Minister 1932–1938
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|1937
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|[[Carl Oberg]]
|[[Higher SS and Police Leader]] of [[Nazi occupation of France|France]]
|36075
|7 April 1932
|575205
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|[[Günther Pancke]]
|Higher SS and Police Leader of Denmark<br />Waffen-SS General
|10110
|1931
|282737
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|[[Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch]]
| Obergruppenführer General der Waffen-SS und der Polizei, during World War II, he commanded the [[4th SS Polizei Division]] and the [[VI SS Army Corps]] and the [[IX SS Mountain Corps]].
|292713
|March 1939
|1364387
|-
|[[Artur Phleps]]
|Commander of the [[7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen|7.SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division ''Prinz Eugen'']]
|401214
|30 June 1941
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|[[Oswald Pohl]]
|Chief of the SS Economics and Administration Office ([[SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt|WVHA]])
|147614
|1933
|30842
|-
|[[Rudolf Querner]]
|From 1 May 1941 to at the end of January 1943 Querner was SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Nordsee in Military district X, based in Hamburg. Working closely with Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann Querners had responsibility over all police matters and was also involved in the deportation of the Hamburg Jew, which began at the end of October 1941.[6] Whilst based in Hanburg Querner also ordered large quantities of Zyklon-B from Tesch & Stabenow pest control company.
|308240
|22 May 1938
|2385386
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|[[Hanns Albin Rauter]]
|[[SS and Police Leader]] in [[History of the Netherlands (1939–1945)|the Netherlands]]
|262958
|
|Joined Austrian Nazi Party
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|[[Wilhelm Rediess]]
|[[SS and Police Leader]] in [[Nazi occupation of Norway|Norway]]
|2839
|22 July 1930
|25574
|-
|[[Wilhelm Reinhard (Nazi)|Wilhelm Reinhard]]
|General der Infanterie a.D./SS-Obergruppenführer / M.d.R
|274104
|
|63074
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|[[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]
|Foreign minister 1938 – 1945
|63083
|February 1938
|1199927
|-
|[[Erwin Rösener]]
|[[SS and Police Leader|Higher SS and Police Leader]] SS-Oberabschnitt 'Alpenland' ([[Wehrkreis#Germany|Wehrkreis]] XVIII; HQ: [[Salzburg]])<br />24 Nov 1941 – 8 May 1945
|3575
|1930
|46771
|-
|[[Ernst Sachs]]
|Inspector of the SS Signals
|278781
|
|4167008
|-
|[[Fritz Sauckel]]
|Honorary rank<br />Gauleiter of NSDAP Gau of Thuringia
|254890
|
|1395
|-
|[[Paul Scharfe]]
|Commander of the SS Legal Office
|14220
|1 October 1931
|665697
|-
|[[Julius Schaub]]
|Co-founder of the SS, personal assistant to Hitler
|7
|February 1925
|81
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|[[Fritz Schleßmann]]
|
|2480
|
|25248
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|[[Heinrich Schmauser]]
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|3359
|
|215704
|-
|[[Walter Schmitt]]
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|28737
|
|592784
|-
|[[Oskar Schwerk]]
|Regional leader of the NS-Reichskriegerbund (NS Association for Veterans) for Silesia
|276825
|
|5420196
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|[[Arthur Seyss-Inquart]]
|Leader of NS opposition in Austria prior Anschluss, Deputy governor-general of Poland then Commissaire for the Reich in Netherlands
|292771
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|6270392
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|[[Jakob Sporrenberg]]
|SS & Police leader in Minsk; on staff of [[Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski]]
|3809
|1930
|25585
|-
|[[Felix Steiner]]
|Commander of [[III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps]]
|253351
|
|4264295
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|Dr. [[Wilhelm Stuckart]]
|Born 16 November 1902. Reich Interior State Secretary; author of [[Nuremberg Race Laws]] of 1935; participant in [[Wannsee Conference]] in 1942. 1949 sentenced to 4 years but released as time reckoned as already served. Died in a car accident in 1953.
|280042
|
|378144
|-
|[[Siegfried Taubert]]
|Also General der Waffen-SS
|23128
|
|525246
|-
|Prince [[Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont]]
|SS-Obergruppenführer and Higher SS and Police Leader of the SS-Oberabschnitt Fulda-Werra
|2139
|2 March 1930
|160025
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|[[Fritz Weitzel]]
|He became a member of Nazi Party in 1925 and of SS in 1926. In 1930 he was promoted to leader of SS in Rheinland and Ruhr. He became Polizeipräsident in Düsseldorf in 1933, and Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer West in 1938.
|408
|1927
|18833
|-
|[[Otto Winkelmann]]
|
|308238
|
|1373131
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|[[Karl Wolff]]
|Chief of staff to Heinrich Himmler and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy
|14235
|7 October 1931
|695131
|-
|[[Udo von Woyrsch]]
|Higher SS and Police Leader in the SS-Oberabschnitt Sudost
|3689
|
|162349
|-
|[[Alfred Wünnenberg]]
|SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen SS and the commander of the [[4th SS Polizei Division|4th SS Polizei Panzer Grenadier Division]]
|405898
|2 October 1939
|2222600
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|[[Franz Zeidner]]
|aka Ferenc FEKETEHALMI-CZEYDNER. Waffen-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS /Vezérezredes (Colonel-General)
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