The Einsatzgruppen ( SS task forces ) had been originally formed by Heydrich to secure government papers and offices in areas taken over by Germany before World War II.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Normandy – At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.

* 1944 – World War II: German combat elements-reinforced by the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division-launch a counterattack on American forces near Carentan.

As World War II went on, Ribbentrop's once-friendly relations with the SS became increasingly strained.

* 1945 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.

* In the manga Hellsing the remnant of SS known as Millenium dub their attack of London Operation Sea Lion II.

Introduction, xcix – c ; Acta SS., January, II, 369

The Red Army is widely credited with being the decisive force in the Allied victory in the European Theatre of World War II, having engaged and defeated about 80 % of the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht and much of the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front.

Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ).

During World War II, SS units operated alongside the regular Heer ( German Army ).

The SS Einsatzgruppen death squads, formed by his deputy, Heydrich, murdered many civilian non-combatants, primarily Jews, in the countries occupied by Germany during World War II.

Himmler's SS existed from 1929 to 1945, and may itself be divided into a peacetime SS until 1939, replaced by a wartime SS lasting until the end of World War II.

The division between the military and general SS never entirely disappeared even in the last days of World War II.

These offices remained unchanged in their names until the end of World War II and the fall of the SS.

By the outbreak of World War II, the SS had solidified into its final form.

In the last months of World War II, a fourth branch of the SS known as the " Auxiliary-SS " was formed from non-SS members conscripted to serve in Germany's concentration camps.

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.

* 1941 – World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6, 000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine.

* SS Oliver Ellsworth, a 7, 191 ton American liberty ship in World War II

In naval history, an early 20th century British Merchant Navy freight ship SS Tantalus and a United States Navy landing craft repair ship of the World War II ( USS Tantalus ( ARL-27 )) were named after Tantalus.

The camp, which was operated by the German SS and Eastern European Trawnikis, consisted of Treblinka I and II.

Unlike the SS, however, the SA did not have a medical corps nor did it establish itself outside of Germany, in occupied territories, once World War II had begun.

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.

As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U. S. Army in World War II used Korzybski's system to treat battle fatigue in Europe with the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who went on to become the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

In 1939, coinciding with the start of World War II, Rene Dubos reported the discovery of the first naturally derived antibiotic, gramicidin from B. brevis.

The Navy reported the loss of 11 landing craft in the surf during World War II.

Hypomanic episodes do not go to the full extremes of mania ( i. e., do not usually cause severe social or occupational impairment, and are without psychosis ), and this can make bipolar II more difficult to diagnose, since the hypomanic episodes may simply appear as a period of successful high productivity and is reported less frequently than a distressing, crippling depression.

After Áed's death there is a two decade gap until the death of Donald II ( Domnall mac Constantín ) in 900 during which nothing is reported in the Irish annals.

" Although several twigs of dill were found in the tomb of Amenhotep II, they reported the earliest archeological evidence for its cultivation comes from late Neolithic lakeshore settlements in Switzerland.

Each of these three heads of department reported separately to Wilhelm II.

* Phantom aircraft, a reported incident during World War II in which a Kampfgeschwader 200 attempted to infiltrate a British heavy bomber formation

He also crushed a Basque uprising, during which he captured the Alavite Munia ; their grandson is reported to be Alfonso II.

In May 2011, it was reported that Crow and longtime acquaintance Doyle Bramhall II ( musician, Sheryl Crow touring band member, and " 100 Miles From Memphis " producer ) had begun dating.

Mahmood is reported to be fascinated " with the role sunspots played in triggering the French and Russian Revolutions, World War II and assorted anticolonial uprisings.

As reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, " when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to help a group of kids steal Apple II computers, but during the attempted break-in one of the kids set off the silent alarm.

Porphyry reported that Plotinus was 66 years old when he died in 270, the second year of the reign of the emperor Claudius II, thus giving us the year of his teacher's birth as around 205.

A rocket sled is reported to have been used in the closing days of World War II by the Germans to launch a winged A4b strategic rocket from an underground tunnel on, 1945.

Patton later reported it was the only mistake he made during World War II.

Burton was banned permanently from BBC productions in November 1974 for writing two newspaper articles questioning the sanity of Winston Churchill and others in power during World War II – Burton reported hating them " virulently " for the alleged promise to wipe out all Japanese people on the planet.

Platina reported that Pius II suggested he should have been called Maria Pietissima ( Our Lady of Pity ), as " when he could not obtain what he aimed at by praying, entreating, and requesting, he would join tears to his petitions to make them the sooner believed.

The effect was first reported by persons working in the vicinity of radar transponders during World War II.

Nebuchadnezzar II is reported to have used massive slabs of stone, a technique not otherwise attested in Babylon, to prevent the water from eroding the ground.

Spanish Hidalgos reported finding the plants growing in Mexico in 1525, but the earliest known description is by Francisco Hernández, physician to Philip II, who was ordered to visit Mexico in 1570 to study the " natural products of that country ".

* In 2008 it was reported that an electric samovar presented to Elizabeth II in about 1968 by a Soviet aerobatic team was removed from Balmoral Castle as a security precaution amid fears that its wiring could contain a listening device.

However, this advice was criticized ; an article in The Hindu reported that " an internal analysis of the statement of the Ministry of Environment and Forests says it ' appears that this could be a business strategy to phase out single gene events is, the first generation Bollgard I product and promote double genes second generation Bollgard II which would fetch higher price.

John III was reported like his father in propaganda, with repeated claims to have " liberated Sweden " from the " bloodhound " Christian II, as well as rescuing the population from the " tyrant " Eric XIV ; also violent, hot tempered and greatly suspicious.

In 2002 Dominicci joined Univision's highly touted news show Primer Impacto and for three years anchored and reported events such as the Pope's John Paul II death.