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McMahon, Barbara (22 June 2005). "10 former Nazis convicted of Tuscan massacre". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 August 2019. Army Group Vistula was formed in 1945 to protect Berlin from the advancing Red Army. It fought in the Battle of the Seelow Heights (16–19 April) and the Battle of Halbe (21 April – 1 May), both part of the Battle of Berlin. The Waffen-SS was represented by the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps. Rolf Michaelis Die SS-Sturmbrigade „Dirlewanger“. Vom Warschauer Aufstand bis zum Kessel von Halbe. Band II. 1. Auflage. Verlag Rolf Michaelis, 2003, ISBN 3-930849-32-1 Tessin, Georg (1973). Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939–1945, Volumes II and III (in German). Biblio Verlag. When Hitler, with SS help, purged the SA in 1934 and reduced it to political impotence, the SS became an independent group responsible, via Himmler, to Hitler alone. Between 1934 and 1936 Himmler and his chief adjutant, Reinhard Heydrich, consolidated SS strength by gaining control of all of Germany’s police forces and expanding their organization’s responsibilities and activities. At the same time, special military SS units were trained and equipped along the lines of the regular army. By 1939 the SS, now numbering about 250,000 men, had become a massive and labyrinthian bureaucracy, divided mainly into two groups: the Allgemeine-SS (General SS) and the Waffen-SS (Armed SS).

Vahtla, Aili, ed. (31 July 2018). "Politicians condemn Russian Embassy criticism of tribute to WWII battle". Eesti Rahvusringhääling . Retrieved 18 December 2019. This illustrated book is the first comprehensive reference work covering winter uniforms used by the German Army, Air Force and Waffen-SS during the period from 1942 to 1945.

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Weale, Adrian (2012). Army of Evil: A History of the SS. New York: Caliber Printing. ISBN 978-0-451-23791-0. Browning, Christopher (2007). The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939 – March 1942. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-5979-9. The SS can trace its origins to several early Freikorps and Nazi Party formations, among them the Erhardt Naval Brigade, Der Stahlhelm, and most significantly the Sturmabteilung (SA), of which the SS was originally a subordinate organization.

Staff (24 May 1945). "Heinrich Himmler Kills Himself in British Prison". Bend Bulletin . Retrieved 4 March 2016. Bedurftig, Friedemann; Zenter, Christian, eds. (1985). Das große Lexikon des Dritten Reiches[ The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich] (in German). München: Südwest Verlag. ISBN 3-517-00834-6. Pieper, Henning (2015). Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare: The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-45631-1. Remembering the invisible soldiers of the Battle of the Bulge". U.S. Wereth Memorial. 2012 . Retrieved 10 November 2013. The most significant rank change was the creation of an actual rank of Reichsführer-SS to denote the commander of the SS. The new rank was the equivalent of a field marshal in the army. [16] Prior to 1934, Himmler had been regarded simply as an SS-Obergruppenführer. Reichsführer was merely a title and not a rank prior to 1934, though Himmler preferred to use his title more than his rank. [16] In addition to Himmler’s new rank, several of the original SS rank titles were renamed (although retained the same insignia), bringing about the final nomenclature of SS ranks which would be used until the SS was disbanded at the end of World War II.

SD-Leiter: This title was used by senior officers of the Sicherheitsdienst, typically those in command of a major SD office or regional headquarters. Spajić, Hrvoje (2010). Waffen-SS: Mračne sile zločinačke politike - Vojnici nacionalsocijalizma 1933–45[ Waffen-SS: The Dark Forces of Criminal Politics – Soldiers of National Socialism 1933–45] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Naklada Stih. Leland, Anne; Oboroceanu, Mari–Jana (2010). "American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics" (PDF). Congressional Research Service.

Molt, Matthias (2007). on der Wehrmacht zur Bundeswehr personelle Kontinuität und Diskontinuität beim Aufbau der deutschen Streitkräfte 1955–1966[ From the Wehrmacht to the Bundeswehr – Continuity and dis-continuity of personnel in the formation of the German armed forces] (in German). Heidelberg: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Retrieved 22 September 2018. RONA – Russian National Liberation Army (Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armiya)". Warsaw Uprising 1944 . Retrieved 21 July 2019. Hannes, Heer; Naumann, Klaus (2000). War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II 1941–1944. Berghahn. ISBN 1-57181-232-6.Latimer, Jon (2001). "World War II: 12th SS Hitlerjugend Panzer Division Fought in Normandy". World War II (July) . Retrieved 16 February 2009. By this time, with influences from the Stahlhelm, the SA leadership adopted its first collar insignia and also added a new SA rank of Standartenführer (" standard leader") in charge of regiment-sized Standarten (incorporating the company sized Staffeln); the SS at this time adopted the same rank as well. Williamson, Gordon; Andrew, Stephan (2004). The Waffen-SS (4): 24. To 38. Divisions, & Volunteer Legions. Osprey. ISBN 1-84176-589-9.

Probe into Nazi massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy, dropped". BBC News. 1 October 2012 . Retrieved 5 August 2019. Kershaw, Ian (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06757-6.Marrus, Michael R. (1989). The Nazi Holocaust. Part 3: The "Final Solution": The Implementation of Mass Murder (Vol.2). Berlin: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-0-88736-255-2. Hermann Fegelein commanded the SS Totenkopf Reiterstandarte (Death's Head Horse Regiment). He was a member of Hitler's entourage and brother-in-law to Eva Braun through his marriage to her sister Gretl. [176] SS uniforms of World War II (1939–1945) [ edit ] SS rank insignia for enlisted personnel and officers SS senior and general officer rank insignia, before (top row) and after (bottom row) April 1942 Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Volume 22 'Two Hundred and Seventeenth Day: Monday, 30 September 1946' ". Avalon Project. Lillian Goldman Law Library. Miller, Michael (2006). Leaders of the SS and German Police, Vol. 1. San Jose, CA: R. James Bender. ISBN 978-93-297-0037-2.