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SS Executor may refer to one of these ships built for or owned by American Export Lines : SS Executor (1940) (MC hull number 104, Type C3-E), built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding ( Quincy, Massachusetts ); acquired by the United States Navy as cargo ship USS Almaack (AKA-10); sold for commercial service in 1946; scrapped in 1970. SS Executor (1945 ...
August Dickmann (January 7, 1910 - September 15, 1939) was a Jehovah's Witness [1] and Conscientious objector from Germany, and the first person to be killed for rejecting military service during World War II. [2] He was one of many German Jehovah's Witnesses executed because of his religious beliefs during the Nazi regime. [3]
American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines. American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, New York, was the leading US-flag shipping company between the U.S. east coast and the Mediterranean from 1919 to 1977, offering both cargo ship and passenger ship services, until it declared bankruptcy and was acquired by Farrell Lines of New York.
List of Waffen-SS divisions. All Waffen-SS divisions were ordered in a single series of numbers as formed, regardless of type. [ 1] Those with ethnic groups listed were at least nominally recruited from those groups. Many of the higher-numbered units were divisions in name only, being in reality only small battlegroups ( Kampfgruppen ).
History of the Waffen-SS. The Waffen-SS (Armed SS) was created as the militarised wing of the Schutzstaffel (SS; "Protective Squadron") of the Nazi Party. Its origins can be traced back to the selection of a group of 120 SS men in 1933 by Sepp Dietrich to form the Sonderkommando Berlin, which became the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH). [ 4]
Holocaust perpetrators. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Holocaust perpetrators. This category includes Nazi officials and collaborators notably responsible for the Holocaust ( Final Solution architects and executors, SS and Police Leaders, extermination camp or Einsatzgruppe commanders, etc).
Parent. Heinrich Schmidt. Franz Schmidt (1555–1634), also known as Meister Franz or Frantz Schmidt, was an executioner in Hof from 1573 to April 1578, and from 1 May 1578 till the end of 1617 he was the executioner of Nuremberg. He left a diary in which he detailed the 361 executions he performed during his 45-year career.
Führer (Adolf Hitler) Oberster SA-Führer and SS Member no. 1 Adolf Hitler at SA Parade in Nürnberg, September 1935; SA at the left; SS- Sturmbannführer Jakob Grimminger behind car. Inspection by the Nazi party and Himmler at the Dachau concentration camp on 8 May 1936. Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the ...