Nazi Perpetrators:
The SS (Schutzstaffel)

Reference

• Background & Overview
• Totenkopfring
• ODESSA

Primary Source Documents

• Testimonies of SS Men on Gassing of Prisoners
• Statistics on the Final Solution (March 1943)
• SS Secrecy Pledge (July 1942)
• Heydrich's Guidelines for SS Leaders (July 1941)
• Duties During Operation Barbarossa (March 1941)
• Views on the Jewish Question (November 1938)
• Nature & Tasks of the SS (January 1937)
• Report of the SS in Hanover (August 1935)

Figureheads

• Erich von dem Bach
• Gottlob Berger
• Joseph Berchtold
• Wilhelm Frick
• Erhard Heiden
• Heinrich Himmler
• Oswald Pohl
• Walter Rauff
• Julius Schreck
• Ludolf von Alvensleben
• Kurt Gerstein

SS Units

• British Free Corps
• Germanic-SS
• SS-Verfügungstruppe
• Totenkopfverbände
• Waffen-SS
• 6th Mountain Division Nord
• 11th Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland
• 33rd Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne

SS Ranks

• Ranks & Western Equivalents

• Anwärter
• Bewerber
• Junker
• Mann
• Obermann
• Oberscharführer
• Reichsführer
• Rottenführer
• Scharführer
• Stabsscharführer
• Staffelführer
• Strumscharführer
• Sturmführer
• Sturmhauptführer
• Unterscharführer