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August 2nd, 2006, 03:01 PM
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#1 | | Scholar
Joined: Aug 2006 From: Roving Posts: 758 | SS Units
There were three units of the SS in the German military, can anyone help me out so I don't have to use Wikipedia? I'd like to know names of the organizations, overall mission, and missions of distinction. Thank you.
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August 2nd, 2006, 03:36 PM
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#2 | | Historian
Joined: Jun 2006 From: Sanford, NC Posts: 1,036 |
What time frame are we looking at? There are dozens of SS organizations from 1925 to 1945.
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August 2nd, 2006, 03:43 PM
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#3 | | Archivist
Joined: Jul 2006 From: Vancouver Washington Posts: 173 |
Are you talking about Waffen SS divisions? There were allot more than 3.
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August 2nd, 2006, 05:57 PM
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#4 | | Scholar
Joined: Aug 2006 From: Roving Posts: 758 |
Not divisions, I mean like between the bodyguards, the storm troopers, and what else.
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August 2nd, 2006, 06:06 PM
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#5 | | Historian
Joined: Jun 2006 From: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 1,348 |
wasn't there an ss panzer division ? That's the only one I've heard of
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August 2nd, 2006, 07:49 PM
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#6 | | Archivist
Joined: Jul 2006 From: Vancouver Washington Posts: 173 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Commander wasn't there an ss panzer division ? That's the only one I've heard of | There were several SS Panzer divisions. There were the 1st "Leibstandarte", 2nd "Das Reich", 3rd "Totenkopf", 5th "Wiking", 9th "Hohenstaufen", 10th "Frundsberg", and 12th "Hitlerjugend" to name a few. There were also "Panzergrenadier" divisions such as the 17th SS "Götz von Berlichingen", and the SS panzer brigades like "Wallonen".
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August 3rd, 2006, 02:27 AM
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#7 | | Dominus Historiae
Joined: Jun 2006 From: U.K. Posts: 8,569 | Re: SS Units
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Originally Posted by CelticBard There were three units of the SS in the German military, can anyone help me out so I don't have to use Wikipedia? I'd like to know names of the organizations, overall mission, and missions of distinction. Thank you. | Do you mean to distinguish between the "Armed" SS and the "General" SS? I can't think of a third branch offhand. The first comprised the various divisions in the German armed forces, the second provided concentration camp guards and did general non- combatant duties.
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August 3rd, 2006, 12:52 PM
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#8 | | Scholar
Joined: Aug 2006 From: Roving Posts: 758 |
Well I know they introduced them into the military as shock troopers, which the existing military troops frowned upon because they saw them as amateurs, but that answered it for me. The SS overall had one part sent as mobile army stormtroopers, one part as concentration camp guards, and another as Hitler's personal bodyguard.
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August 4th, 2006, 09:11 AM
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#9 | | Archivist
Joined: Jul 2006 From: Bristol, England Posts: 201 |
the SA was first established in the twenties (i think) as a personal bodyguard/army for the nazi party and were used to try and take over in the late twenties/early thirties
this was then merged into the SS after hitler ordered the leaders to be killed for some reason
and i think there was a SS Gross Deutchland (cant spell it) division
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August 4th, 2006, 01:40 PM
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#10 | | Scholar
Joined: Aug 2006 From: Roving Posts: 758 |
The SA had been replaced by the SS and so the SA were branded as homosexuals and killed.
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