screened applicants for their supposed physical perfection and racial purity but recruited members from all ranks of German society. With their sleek black uniforms and special insignia (lightninglike runic S’s, death’s head badges, and silver daggers), the men of the SS felt superior to the...
More grades and insignia followed. Himmler even raised money for his organization by doling out honorary ranks and titles such as "Sponsoring Member" to donors, and money duly began to flow in from industrialists, bankers and businessmen. The "Friends of the Reich Leader-SS", another source ...
The SS auxiliary was made up of females normally between 17 and 30 years of age. They were employed as telephonists, teleprinter operators, and radio operators. Selected female personnel were promoted to NCO or officer ranks after successfully passing special training courses. Reichsführer-SS ...
DESCRIPTION:This is an item so rare today that this can easily be called aliteral treasure. It is 100-percent original as to both cap and insignia and it has been all of 15 years since we had another. They are truly almostbeyond rare. They are virtually impossible to find in any condit...
and disciplined paramilitary force. Among those recruited during this period were ruthless men like former naval officer Reinhard Heydrich and Munich police chief Heinrich Muller, both of whom were given responsibility for internal security. During 1933-34 the ranks of the SS were studied, then ...
This signifies that he was a squad leader in the SS signals unit from which ranks the flyers often were recruited. The most famous of the flying corps SS officers was the commander of the SS-Fliegerstaffel Sud, Eduard Ritter von Schleich, the winner of the coveted Blue Max, or Pour le ...
provide security. This was done so that noUntermenschen, like those dirt bags in the movie theDirty Dozen, could steal his identity and infiltrate the ranks to perform nefarious deeds against theÜbermenschen. I just had to add that as it befits my revisionist outlook (Germanophile) you ...