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The ranks of the Allgemeine SS and the Waffen-SS were based upon those of the SA and used the same titles. However, there was a distinctly separate hierarchical subdivision of the larger Waffen-SS from its general-SS counterpart and an SS member could in fact hold two separate SS ranks.
Johann Baptist Albin Rauter (4 February 1895 – 24 March 1949) was a high-ranking Austrian-born SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era.He was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands and therefore the leading security and police officer there during the period of 1940–1945.
Friedrich Jeckeln (2 February 1895 – 3 February 1946) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era.He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II.
The SS Court Main Office (German: Hauptamt SS-Gericht) - one of the 12 SS main departments - was the legal department of the SS in Nazi Germany.It was responsible for formulating the laws and codes for the SS and various other groups of the police, conducting investigations and trials, as well as administering the SS and Police Courts and penal systems.
SS-Untersturmführer der Reserve der Waffen-SS – 1 July 1940 [5] Generalleutnant der Polizei – 1 April 1941 [5] SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei – 21 June 1943 [5] General der Waffen-SS und Polizei – 1 December 1944 [5] Awards and decorations. Honour Chevron for the Old Guard (1934) [63] SS Honour Ring (1938) [63]
The Schutzstaffel (German: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] ⓘ; lit. ' Protection Squadron '; SS; also stylised with Armanen runes as ᛋᛋ) 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.
SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV; lit. ' Death's Head Units ' [2]) was a major branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. It was responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties. [3]
Hermann Wilhelm Hackmann (November 11, 1913 – August 20, 1994) was a German war criminal, Nazi SS captain in two extermination camps during World War II. He was a roll call officer at KL Buchenwald, and lead guard in charge of the so-called protective custody at Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.