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Topic: SS Deutschland (1923)


  
  Der November in der deutschen Geschichte
Zu dieser Zeit trat nach der Zerschlagung der Revolution, nach Überwindung der darauf folgenden Stagnation Deutschland an, sich einen "Platz an der Sonne", sich die Vormachtstellung in Konkurrenz zu den anderen imperialistischen Großmächten England und Frankreich zu erkämpfen.
Gründung der Terrororganisation "SS" (Schutzstaffel), Eliteorganiation der NSDAP.
März 33), wurde von der SS in den zwölf Jahren Terrorherrschaft rücksichtslos umgesetzt.
www.loester.net /november.htm   (1023 words)

  
 SS Deutschland (1923) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SS Deutschland of 1923, sometimes seen as Deutschland IV to distinguish from others of the name, was a HAPAG ocean liner sunk in a British air attack in 1945, with great loss of life.
One of a group of four that began with the Albert Ballin, Deutschland was launched on 28 April 1923.
On May 3, 1945, she was sunk in the Bay of Lübeck off Neustadt by the same British air attack that sank SS Cap Arcona and Thielbek.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deutschland_IV_(liner)   (290 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/SS Deutschland (1923)
The SS Deutschland was a 21,000 ton German HAPAG ocean liner sunk in a British air attack in 1945, with great loss of life.
One of a group of four that began with the Albert Ballin, Deutschland was launched on 28 April 1923.
On May 3 1945, she was sunk in the Bay of Lübeck off Neustadt by the same British air attack that sank SS Cap Arcona and Thielbek.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/SS_Deutschland_(1923)   (262 words)

  
 BACKGROUND ON WAFFEN SS
Although the SS was growing exponentially, the SA had mirrored the growth of Hitler's private army.
"Deutschland" and "Germania" were formed from various battalions of the Verfügungstruppe and would be the foundation for 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" and 5th SS Panzer Division "Wiking".
The Waffen SS took part in almost every major battle and were shifted from front to front, depending on the severity of the situation.
www.dasreich.ca /background.html   (835 words)

  
 Organization and Obligations of the SS and the Police: A lecture by Heinrich Himmler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The SS originated in 1923, very early in the history of the movement, as shock troop [Stosstrupp] Hitler, was prohibited and disbanded on November 9, 1923.
The General SS is divided into 13 subdivisions which on the whole are exactly adapted to the present corps districts and one corps district being planned.
The SS man is not interested in daily problem of the kind whether perhaps the local group is correctly manned, whether everything is done properly in the labor front, no matter what it is, he is not interested.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/SS4.htm   (7340 words)

  
 WWW.WAFFEN-SS.NO "1.SS Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hilter"
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (German for "Adolf Hitler's Bodyguard Regiment") was a unit of the SS.
As the SS began to swell with new recruits, the LSSAH remained the pinnacle of Hitler's Aryan ideal.
Infanterie-Regiment (mot) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler—April 1941—Operation Marita
www.waffen-ss.no /SS-Panzer-Division-Leibstandarte-SS-Adolf-Hitler.htm   (5096 words)

  
 Das Dritte Reich - Deutschland unter dem Nationalsozialismus - Geschichte, Bedeutung, Quellen
(„Das dritte Reich“ war der Titel einer 1923 erschienenen Schrift, in welcher der konservative Autor Artur Moeller van der Bruck seinen Traum eines auf mittelalterlichen Vorstellungen beruhenden neuen Deutschland entwarf, das in der Nachfolge des Heiligen Römischen Reichs und des von Bismarck geschaffenen, im Ersten Weltkrieg untergegangenen „Zweiten Reich“ stehen sollte.
Diese Frage ist unbequem und wurde in Deutschland auch von der Forschung lange nicht oder nur verhalten gestellt.
Klee, Ernst: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich Wer war was vor und nach 1945.
www.shoa.de /das_dritte_reich.html   (490 words)

  
 Axis History Factbook: Waffen-SS Unit Names and Honor Titles
The death’s head was one of the SS’ oldest and most widely recognized symbols, appearing, for example, as a cap badge in every branch of the SS as well as on the SS honor ring; it had even been adopted by the forerunner of the SS, the Stoßtrupp Adolf Hitler, as early as 1923.
A dismissed former naval officer, Heydrich was the founder and head of the Sicherheitsdienst or SD (the SS’ security service) and, from 1939, the head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA, (the Reich Security Main Office) to which, apart from the SD, both the Gestapo and the Criminal Police were subordinated.
This was a regiment of SS war correspondents; initially a company formed in 1940, the formation was upgraded to battalion strength in 1941 and finally became and independent regiment in 1943.
www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=1516   (5508 words)

  
 Heinrich Himmler SS
The goal of the SS was to permeate and dissolve the old order, and it was also to be the hard core of an imperial dominion aiming at 'organizing Europe economically and politically on a basis that would destroy all pre-existing boundaries, with the Order in the background'.
Precisely the effort that it cost the non-criminal, 'idealistic'-minded type of SS man to achieve total lack of feeling, the ability literally to walk unmoved over corpses, often enabled him to delude himself into thinking that he was engaged in an ethical struggle, from which he then drew a sense of self.
In so far as their motives related to the SS leader's actions, it was rather his betrayal of the shared 'idea of the SS', in which they had believed through all battles, all victories, defeats, and crimes.
www.thirdreich.net /Himmler_by_Fest.html   (8448 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV - Document No. 1992-A-PS
The SS orginated in 1923, very early in the history of the movement, as shock troop [Stosstrupp] Hitler, was prohibited and disbanded on November 9, 1923.
This year was for the SS the hardest trial; for it was a time when all organizations flourished, a time of great assault and tidal waves of those who desired membership in the party and its organizations.
From his 35th to his 45th year he is in the SS reserve, and after his 45th year in the Stammabteilung of the SS, identified by the grey color patch.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/document/nca_vol4/1992-A-ps.htm   (7371 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV - Document No. 2284-PS
Therefore the growth of the SS, as a firmly rooted member of the great Movement is in many respects symbolic of the development of National Socialism, as well as of a spiritual position and of the consequent practical application of this unmistakably clear position in the life of the folk and of its state.
SS members who though denied marriage certificates marry in spite of it, will be stricken from the SS; they will be given the choice of withdrawing.
This motto of the SS which was given to it by the Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler, is the direction for this troop within the framework of the movement.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/document/nca_vol4/2284-ps.htm   (5567 words)

  
 English Family of Newfoundland , Brooklyn & New Jersey
The SS Ethie was a coal-burning Steamer (also called a Stout Ship) which set sail from Cow Head, on the western shore of Newfoundland, heading south to Rocky Harbour.
The sea has eroded most of the S.S. Ethie, however a few pieces of the hull, the boilers and engines are still visible from shore, at the Gros Morne National Park of Canada.
The S.S. Ethie coastal steamship ran aground in a fierce storm on December 11, 1919 at Martin’s Point, a few kilometres north of Sally’s Cove.
home1.gte.net /vzeo2s2n/id37.html   (1871 words)

  
 Seed: Campaign Background Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The SS was seen as the go-to organization if you wanted the Nazi Party to -not- confiscate or commandeer your industry for the war effort.) Members of these committees included the Chairman of IG Farben, the President of the Reichbank, and the Chairman of Vereinigte Stahlwerke.
The Waffen SS' training methods in the early years, were probably the single most factor that elevated them to elite status with more emphasis placed on physical fitness, weapons training and fieldcraft than their army counterparts who still adhered to the old style of army training.
It is 1923, and Germany lies exhausted and drained, broken by the punitive terms of the Versailles Treaty.
www.gungeralv.org /dg/archives/cat_campaign_background.php   (10785 words)

  
 THE HOLOCAUST PROJECT - Selected Biographies - B
In 1939, he was promoted to SS General and two years later became a General of the Waffen-SS assigned to the Central Army Group on the Russian front until the end of 1942.
Appointed chairman of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland in 1939, Baeck was in constant danger and frequently summoned by the Gestapo.
He was executed by SS guards along with a group of antifascist prisoners, including Albrecht Haushofer, outside Lehrterstrasse prison in Moabit (G) on April 23, 1945, during the battle for Berlin.
www.humanitas-international.org /holocaust/bios_b.htm   (2417 words)

  
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Waffen SS Feldpost 12-11-1940 from Totenkopf Artillery regiment Ers Abt.
Waffen SS Feldpost from SS Totenkopf division Feldgendarmarie troop 12-4-1941.
SS Race and resettlement office vignette/ID for applicant in the Waffen SS to certify that he has been found suitable by the acceptance commission.
www.reichauctions.com /waffenss2.htm   (1541 words)

  
 Immigrant Ship Information
SS Union was wrecked near Peterhead on Nov. 28, 1870.
After the war she was purchased by the Los Angeles SS Co and returned to service between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In January 1931 she came under the control of the Matson Line, was withdrawn from service in 1935 and laid up at Antioch, Calif. She was sold to a construction company in 1941 and proceeded to Seattle, Sitka and later Kodiak as an accommodation ship for for the employees.
www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipuz.htm   (18985 words)

  
 The School of War U.S. Submarines in World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In July, the large, unarmed, German cargo-carrying submarine Deutschland – having broken through the British blockade – appeared in Baltimore with a shipment of chemicals and dyestuffs, which was traded for a quantity of strategic war materials to be carried back to Germany.
Deutschland made another round trip in November, but by then, the combatant submarine U-53 had also crossed the Atlantic to visit Newport, Rhode Island – and then sank five Allied freighters just outside the territorial limits before returning home.
All were decommissioned in 1922 and 1923, and all but two had been sold for breaking up by 1925.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_22/ww12.htm   (2207 words)

  
 Deutschland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deutschland, a blockade-breaking German cargo submarine used during World War I. Deutschland, first of the 1930s pocket battleships, later renamed Lützow
Deutschland, a steamship wrecked in 1875 and commemorated in the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the "Deutschland"
SS Deutschland "III", a transatlantic ocean liner of 1900
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deutschland   (136 words)

  
 Books Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Otto Skorzeny only rose to the rank of Colonel in the SS, yet is one of the best known and colorful figures of the Third Reich, in large part because of the faith Hitler had in the tall Austrian engineer.
This new volume examines the balance of SS recipients awarded the German Cross in Gold for combats while assigned to the 2.SS-Panzer-Division “Das Reich.” The detailed format follows that previously established in “German Cross in Silver Holders of the SS and Police” as well as the initial volume on Gold holders.
The contrast between orthodox Christian religions and SS religious ideas and ideals are detailed, including organization of ceremonies for funerals, name days and marriages.
www.bender-publishing.com /rbendbooks.htm   (5130 words)

  
 Weimar Republic, Germany. Das Deutschland Geschichte Netz. The Germany History Network. History and Genealogy
On 11 January 1923, French and Belgian forces seized and occupied German industrial district in the Ruhr valley because Germany could not meet it second reparations payment.
In 1923 Hjalmar Schacht became Reich currency commissioner and was instrumental for bringing Germany’s inflation under control.
On April 13 1932, the SA (Sturm Abteilung, a.k.a, Brownshirts) and SS (Schutzstaffel) were banned after plans for a coup are discovered.
www.usgennet.org /de/topic/ddgn/weimar   (2558 words)

  
 Rudolph Salvermoser, A Großdeutschland Veteran
It was back in 1923, while Germany was experiencing a high rate of inflation, that a friend of my maternal grandfather visited him in the small Bavarian town of Altomünster.
Mother departed Germany in April 1923 and I was born in the West Jersey Homeo Hospital (N. Ward), in Camden, New Jersey at 4 PM on 7 July 1924.
After this attempt was made on Hitler's life, Reichsführer S.S. Heinrich Himmler [21], who always felt that his troops should be the sole guardians of the Führer, called in his men and assigned one of them to each one of us.
www.feldgrau.com /interview6.html   (19201 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Roehm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Roehm organized the storm troops (Sturmabteilung, or SA), the militia of the National Socialist (Nazi) party.
An early member of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party, Himmler took part in Adolf Hitler's beer-hall putsch of 1923, and in 1929 Hitler appointed him head of the SS, or Schutzstaffel, the party's fl-shirted elite corps.
Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republic (2005 est.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Roehm   (365 words)

  
 Featured Items
Waffen SS Feldpost from Der Reichsfuhrer SS Verwaltungamt der Waffen SS Berlin 1-9-1941
Waffen SS Feldpost from N.E.A. Ausbuilung detachement 5 11-10-1943 Nurnberg.
Waffen SS Wehrpass to Rudolf Reudemann born in 1927.
www.reichauctions.com /ss.htm   (1832 words)

  
 15th
There is a library subscription label on the front page affecting the "ss" in "Massacre".
ORIGINAL Japanese newspaper Sept 9 1923 of the Major Quake that Destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama Paper is in Excellent condition many pictures of the destruction A rare find from Japan
Jahrg." of may 8th 1937: with the main headline after the catastrophy of the "Hindenburg" Zeppelin airship LZ 129 in Lakehurst: "Deutschland baut neue Luftschiffe" ("Germany is building new Airships").
www.oldink.com /images/1920-1940.htm   (1846 words)

  
 Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland (1978)
Hitler als Anstreicher, Eva Braun-Puppenspieler, Mann der Gesellschaft 1923
See it and understand why 80 million Germans believed Hitler, a maniac, became for many, a god.
Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland (1978)
us.imdb.com /Title?0076147   (369 words)

  
 Germany States
Both come from Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland (German Federal Statistical Office) and are rounded to the nearest 1,000.
Berlin was sometimes treated as a separate sovereignty, because there had been no peace treaty to formalize its status.
There has been significant resistance to the change, and some major periodicals are refusing to adopt the new spellings.
www.statoids.com /ude.html   (2488 words)

  
 Museum of WWII -- Virtual Tour -- Rise of Nazism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Announcement of a Nazi rally for "German honor, freedom and bread." May 19, 1923.
This statue of the Nuremberg Eagle was taken by General George S. Patton, Jr.
Oak Box carved with SS runes, swastika, Hagall-rune, oak leaves and acorns.
www.museumofworldwarii.com /TourText/Area02_RiseofNazismOLD.htm   (1126 words)

  
 Wehrmacht-Awards.com
Peterson, Daniel : Camouflage uniforms of the Waffen SS and postwar derivatives
Luther, Craig W. Blood and Honor, the history of the 12th SS Pz.
Deutschland's Admiräle 1849-1945 volume 4 (covers all Admirals from the Administration Branch as well as dignitaries) IN GERMAN
www.wehrmacht-awards.com /reserach_tools/booklist.htm   (4225 words)

  
 Museum of WWII -- Virtual Tour -- The Rise of Nazism- Museum of World War II
The development of the Hitler Youth is a special exhibit, from toy soldiers and children's war games to the musical instruments and uniforms of the Hitler Youth.
The pageantry of Nazism is shown, including a "Deutschland Erwache" (Germany Awaken) standard and banner, an SS glockenspiel, bronze busts of Hitler, a tapestry from the Reichschancellery, Hitler's S.A. shirt, and the large bronze eagle and gold swastika from the speaker's stand at Nuremberg taken as war souvenirs by George Patton.
It contained a presentation copy of Mein Kampf, which every newly-married SS man received.
www.museumofworldwarii.com /TourText/Area02_RiseofNazism.htm   (1393 words)

  
 Person Page 3
He lived at Kaulbachstrasse, Munich, Germany, on 20 December 1923.
Erzsebet Fuchsz immigrated on 29 January 1901; on the SS Deutschland.
She was found on a passenger list on 29 August 1901 at New York; on SS Deutschland.
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