* Friedrich Alpers SS General

* Ludolf von Alvensleben SS General

* Gottlob Berger, SS General

* Wilhelm Bittrich SS General

* Martin Bormann, NSDAP Politician / SS General

* Franz Classen, SS General

* Kurt Daluege, SS General

* Josef Dietrich SS General

* Anton Dunckern, SS General

* Freiherr Karl von Eberstein SS General

* Johannes Engel, SS General

* Fritz Freitag, SS General

* Karl Gebhardt, SS General

* Richard Glücks, SS General

* Arthur Greiser, SS General

* Wilhelm Harster SS General

* Franz Hayler SS General

The one incident that resulted in the death of Gibraltarians occurred on 31 January 1938 when the insurgent submarine General Sanjurjo sank the SS Endymion, a small Gibraltar-registered freighter taking a cargo of coal to Cartagena, which was chartered by the Republican government.

These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.

The fact that Himmler was Interior Minister only increased the power of Bormann, as the Gauleiters feared that Himmler, who was General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich, would curb their power and set up his higher SS and police leaders as their replacement.

* 1955 – Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, General Public, Carbon / Silicon, and London SS )

* SS Major General Wilhelm Mohnke ( 1911 – 2001 ), one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard " Berlin "

Deathshead returns as one of the main antagonists in the 2009 sequel Wolfenstein, where he has been promoted to Obergruppenführer ( SS General ).

Within the SS, early divisions also developed between the " General SS " and the SS under the command of Sepp Dietrich which would eventually become the Waffen-SS.

# In the summer of 1934 Hitler instructed the SS to kill Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the Nazi party's SA, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and several aides to former Chancellor Franz von Papen in the so-called Night of the Long Knives ( June 30, 1934 / July 1, 1934 ).

The stylised lightning bolts of the SS insignia were based on the Armanen runes of Guido von List.

The stylised lightning bolt " SS " runes were derived from the Armanen runes of Guido von List, which he had loosely based on the indigenous runic alphabets of the Germanic peoples.

The couple were also foster parents to a boy named Gerhard von Ahe, son of an SS officer who had died before the war.

The SS Paranormal Division, under Oberführer Helga von Bulow, has been excavating the catacombs and crypts of an ancient church within the village.

The SS-Oberleitung answered to the office of the Supreme SA Leader ( Oberste SA-Führer ), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, clearly establishing the SS as a subordinate unit of the Sturmabteilung.

* February 10 – WWII: The SS General von Steuben is sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13.

In June 1932, the new government of Franz von Papen, much to the satisfaction of the service chiefs lifted the ban on the SA and the SS.

Additional Baltic Germans died during the sinking of the SS General von Steuben on February 10, 1945.

* Erich von dem Bach ( 1899 – 1972 ), SS officer

Bittricht ordered that the attacks were stepped up and the British bridgehead north of the Rhine destroyed and at 09: 00 the major attacks began with the various Kampfgruppes of 9th SS attacking from the east and Kampfgruppe von Tettaus units from the west.

Particularly its early reports and serials in regards to the Reichstag fire authored by former SS officers Paul Carell ( who had also served as chief press spokesman for Nazi Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) and Fritz Tobias have since about the year 2000 been considered influential in historiography due to the fact that since the 1960s the Spiegel reports written by these two authors had made accredited historian Hans Mommsen a lifelong champion for the guilt blame of Marinus van der Lubbe, the man the Nazis themselves had presented as perpetrator of the Reichstag fire in 1933.

Hitler had Hermann Fegelein ( Himmler's SS representative at Hitler's HQ in Berlin ) shot, and ordered von Greim ( with Reitsch ) to fly to Dönitz's headquarters at Ploen and arrest Himmler.

On 19 February, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein took the opportunity to launch his Kharkov counterstrike, using the fresh SS Panzer Corps and two panzer armies.

While the Soviet offensive continued, Field Marshal von Manstein was able to put the SS Panzer Corps — now reinforced by the 3rd SS Panzer Division — under the command of the Fourth Panzer Army, while Hitler agreed to release seven understrength panzer and motorized divisions for the impending counteroffensive.

According to von Manstein, the Army Group headquarters was forced to intervene on a number of occasions to bring the SS Panzer Corps to swing eastwards to encircle the city, instead of launching a frontal attack on Kharkov.

At his funeral, Schleicher ′ s good friend General Kurt von Hammerstein was much offended when the SS refused to allow him to attend the service and confiscated the wreaths that the mourners had brought.

This was mentioned by SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski during his evidence as a prosecution witness in the trial of officials of the SS-Rasse-und Siedlungshauptamt ( RuSHA ) ( SS Office of Race and Settlement ).

German forces in Italy surrender: On 1 May, SS General Karl Wolff and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army Group C, General Heinrich von Vietinghoff, after prolonged unauthorised secret negotiations with the Western Allies named Operation Sunrise, which were viewed as trying to reach a separate peace by the Soviet Union, ordered all German armed forces in Italy to cease hostilities and signed a surrender document which stipulated that all German forces in Italy were to surrender unconditionally to the Allies on 2 May.

In the process they also displaced all other actors including notably the SS, except in central Belarus where HSSPF Erich von dem Bach-Zelewsky had a special command encompassing both military and civil administration territories and engaged in anti-partisan warfare.