* During the Third Reich, the Waffen-SS named an SS Panzer division " Hohenstaufen ".

The most famous are the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler ( LSSAH ), 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking and the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend.

One of the most notable is the depiction of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, as the adversary during the fictional Battle of Ramelle.

Her captors were most likely from the 1st Battalion of 3rd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment Deutschland ( Das Reich Division ).

* April 2 – WWII: Ascq massacre members of the 2th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend shoot 85 people.

The Germans attacked with nearly 30 divisions ; including the 1st SS, 2nd SS, and the 12th SS Panzer Divisions.

* Section V: SS Medical Corps

On 5 September, Model's forces were bolstered by the arrival of the II SS Panzer Corps, which consisted of the 9th SS and 10th SS Panzer Divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich.

During World War II, it saw heavy fighting between Allied Paratroopers, British XXX Corps and the German II SS Panzer Corps, also known as the Battle of Arnhem.

With authority over Jewish affairs, Papon regularly collaborated with Nazi Germany's SS Corps, responsible for the extermination of Jews.

The presence of the II SS Panzer Corps would have a significant effect on the battle.

Additionally, Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich's II SS Panzer Corps — comprising the remains of Walter Harzer ’ s 9th SS and Heinz Harmel ’ s 10th SS Panzer Divisions — had moved into the area north of Arnhem to refit and reorganise.

The British Free Corps () was a unit of the Waffen SS during World War II consisting of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by the Nazis.

The British Free Corps: The Story of the British Volunteers of the Waffen SS.

This battalion was assigned to the I SS Panzer Corps and was never permanently attached to any division or regiment within the corps.

In particular, Russian Cossacks of XVth SS Cossack Cavalry Corps of Waffen-SS with their relatives were forcibly repatriated from Austria to the Soviet occupation zones of Austria and Germany.

* XVth SS Cossack Cavalry Corps

Headquarters of the Schalburg Corps, a Danish SS unit, after 1943.

With casualties mounting and the Americans drawing closer, the German high command transferred the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division to Aachen, followed by the I SS Panzer Corps, which included the 116th Panzer Division and SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 101, an element of the 1st SS Panzer Division.

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.

Despite orders to encircle Kharkov from the north, the SS Panzer Corps instead decided to directly engage Kharkov on 11 March.

The German offensive cost the Red Army an estimated 70, 000 casualties but the house-to-house fighting in Kharkov was also particularly bloody for the German SS Panzer Corps, which had lost approximately 4, 300 men by the time operations ended in mid March.

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.

Himmler's organised, bookish intellect served him well as he began setting up different SS departments.

In 1933, they began to remove the SS from SA control.

He appointed Hans Jüttner, director of the SS Leadership Main Office, as his deputy, and began to fill top Reserve Army posts with SS men.

In 1931, Heinrich Himmler began setting up a counterintelligence division of the SS.

Himmler began developing the notion of a Germanic religion and wanted SS members to leave the church.

The SS began as a small permanent guard unit made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for Nazi Party meetings in Munich.

In 1944, the Waffen SS began using a universal camouflage uniform intended to replace the wool field uniform.

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

In 1931, as the SS began to increase its membership to over 100, 000, the organization was again restructured beginning with the SS-Oberleitung, which was replaced by the SS-Amt, divided into five sections as follows:

However, it was during this time that the SS began to establish its independence from the Sturmabteilung ( SA ), although officially the SS was still considered a sub-organization of the SA and answerable to the SA Chief of Staff.

With the start of World War II, the Totenkopfverbände began a large expansion that eventually would develop into three branches covering each type of concentration camp the SS operated.

As the Red Army drew nearer to Auschwitz concentration camp and the other easternmost concentration camps, the SS began evacuating the remaining prisoners westward.

The deportation of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto began on 22 July 1942, which was the 9th of Av, Tisha B ' Av, according to the Jewish calendar: " According to the SS Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop report, a total of approximately 310, 000 Jews were transported in freight trains from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka during the period from 22 July to 3 October 1942.

The crisis began on the afternoon of May 12, 1975, as the American container ship SS Mayaguez passed near Poulo Wai island en route to Sattahip, Thailand in recognized international sea lanes claimed as territorial waters by Cambodia.

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.

Behind the Army came SS Einsatzgruppen ( task forces ) commanded by Theodore Eicke, who began systematically executing Jews and members of the Polish educated classes.

This class was built in the 1920s, after HSM ( Hollandische IJzeren Spoorweg Maatschappij ) and SS began to cooperate.

The SS Washington ( 1847 ) In 1846 began inquiries regarding the building of steamships for regularly scheduled transatlantic service.

Gisevius joined the secret opposition to Hitler, began gathering evidence of Nazi crimes ( for use in a later prosecution ) and attempted to restrain the increasing power of Heinrich Himmler and the SS.

At around 10: 00 elements of the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion's 4th Company — its support and reconnaissance troops — reached the battlefield and began to round up isolated British tankers and riflemen in the area between the ridge and the town.

The SS and Gestapo had already began investigations into who he associated with.

The incident took place on April 16, 1947, and began with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp which was docked in the Port of Texas City.

The first steamship carrying mail was the SS Caledonia, which began carrying mail between Copenhagen and Kiel on 1 July 1819.