Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Spindler — commander of the 9th SS Armoured Artillery Regiment — quickly organised a small battlegroup ( Kampfgruppe Spindler was initially only 120 men but would incorporate 16 separate units over the course of the battle ).

The Einsatzgruppen were initially ordered to establish " security " in the rear areas by killing communists and partisans, but by 1941 the identity between Jews and communism was strongly established in the minds of most SS men and Police officers.

When they inquired about the SS General Sherman incident, the Koreans were initially reluctant to discuss the topic, ostensibly to avoid having to pay any recompense.

In 1934 SS-leader Heinrich Himmler signed a 100-mark 100-year lease with the Paderborn district, initially intending to renovate and redesign the castle as a " Reich SS Leadership School " (" Reichsführerschule SS ").

Although he was initially an enthusiastic supporter of Nazism due to its opposition to the Treaty of Versailles, he was quickly disillusioned by 1934 when Schutzstaffel ( SS ) extrajudicially murdered many SA leaders and political opponents including two generals in the Night of the Long Knives.

Despite those trends, the Monte Carlo remained a popular seller and even regained the SS version ( initially offered for 1970-71 with 454 cubic-inch V8 ) from mid-1983 to 1988 with a high-performance 305-cubic-inch V8.

The Monte Carlo SS was revived from 2000 to 2007 and initially powered by 3. 8-liter V6 ( supercharged in 2004 – 2005 ), later to be replaced by a 5. 3-liter V8 for 2006 – 2007.

Innocent II initially restored him as cardinal of SS.

The right column initially made rapid progress, taking a number of German prisoners, but they soon ran into German infantry and SS, backed by air support, and took heavy losses.

They are initially successful, but the SS discovers their secret hiding places and uses gas to force them to walk out and face the wall, where they are all shot.

The algorithm begins in the exponential growth phase initially with a congestion window size ( cwnd ) of 1 or 2 segments and increases it by 1 Segment Size ( SS ) for each ACK received.

Other historical events that form a part of American folklore include: the Salem witch trials, the Boston Massacre, the Siege of Yorktown, California Gold Rush, Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and The Wreck Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Other artists usually considered part of this movement include Hellhammer and Celtic Frost ( from Switzerland ), Kreator, Sodom and Destruction ( from Germany ), Bulldozer and Death SS ( from Italy ), whose vocalist Steve Sylvester was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis.

At this point, the SS was still part of the SA, the early Nazi paramilitary organisation which now numbered over 3 million men.

As a part of its race-centric functions, the SS oversaw the isolation and displacement of Jews from the populations of the conquered territories, seizing their assets and transporting them to concentration camps and ghettos where they would be used as slave labor ( pending extermination ) or immediately killed.

The Gestapo, which would eventually become a semi-integrated part of the SS security forces, was at first a large " thorn in the side " to Himmler as the group was originally the Prussian state political police under the control of Hermann Göring and commanded by his protege Rudolf Diels.

* August 15 – WWII: The American tanker SS Ohio reaches Malta as part of the convoy of Operation Pedestal.

Originally an adjunct to the SA, the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) was placed under the control of Heinrich Himmler in part to restrict the power of the SA and their leaders.

* English SS volunteers in the 1965 alternate history film It Happened Here are part of the Black Prince Division as seen briefly on their cuff titles at the end of the film when being massacred after surrendering.

In 1942 he lost his positions of authority outside the General Government after annoying Hitler with a series of speeches in Berlin, Vienna, Heidelberg, and Munich and also as part of a power struggle with Friedrich Wilhelm Krüger, the State Secretary for Security — head of the SS and the police in the General Government.

Some hospital ships, such as the SS Hope, belong to civilian agencies, and as such are not part of any navy.

In April 1943, a part of the Bergen-Belsen camp was taken over by the SS Economic-Administration Main Office ( SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt ; WVHA ).

It thus became part of the concentration camp system, run by the SS Schutzstaffel but it was a special case.

The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper ( part of the 1st SS Panzer Division ), a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.

* SS Mariposa ( 1883 ), iron ship of the Oceanic Steamship Company which provided service between San Francisco originally to just Hawaii, later also to Australia and New Zealand, became part of the Matson Line in 1926 ; ship sold in 1912 to the Alaska Steamship Company

The Mont-Blanc detonated after colliding with the Norwegian SS Imo in a part of Halifax Harbour called " The Narrows ".

Wittmann was killed on 8 August 1944 while taking part in a counterattack ordered by Kurt Meyer, of the 12th SS Panzer Division to retake tactically important high ground near the town of Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil.

) The SS Winfield Scott built in 1850 by Westervelt & MacKay, wrecked on Middle Anacapa Island in 1853, and has been the object of numerous salvage operations since ; she currently rests underwater as part of the Channel Islands National Park and Marine Sanctuary.

By the time he arrived the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion's 1st Company, under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Rolf Möbius, was on the scene, but although the two discussed the situation Wittmann played no further part in the battle.

" is under my personal direction, is part of the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, and has the following obligations:

The Lebensborn office was part of SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt ( SS Office of Race and Settlement ) until 1938, when it was transferred to Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS ( Personal Staff of the Reich Leader SS ), i. e. directly overseen by Himmler.

The town and castle of Wewelsburg, the Reichs SS Leadership School, as also some of the castle's illustrious patrons and visitors like Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Karl Maria Willigut, SS-Obengrupenführer and chief of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( including the Gestapo and Kripo ) Reinhard Heydrich, and SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe play a prominent part in the 1990 novel The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr.

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.

The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's " Praetorian Guard ", the Nazi Party's " Protection Squadron " and a force that, fielding almost a million men ( both on the front lines and as political police ), managed to exert as much political influence in the Third Reich as the Wehrmacht ( Germany's regular armed forces ).

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.

The engine was also used in the Maserati Merak from 1973 to 1982 ( later versions for the Merak SS had much larger valves and a reputed 220BHP ) and the Ligier JS2 sports car.

* The SS France ( 1961 ), which sailed for much of its operational life as SS Norway

South of Point 213 with his men of 2nd Company, 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion, Wittmann was surprised to discover British armour advancing through Villers-Bocage much sooner than had been expected.

Today the same route, still called by the same name for much of its distance, is paralleled or overlain by Strada Statale ( SS ) 3, also called Strada Regionale ( SR ) 3 in Lazio and Umbria, and Strada Provinciale ( SP ) 3 in Marche.

The SS guards are much smarter and, once alerted, tend to chase the player from room to room.

They were often considered more dangerous to the French Resistance than the Gestapo and SS because they were Frenchmen who spoke the language fluently, had a much more extensive knowledge of the towns and land, and knew people and informers.

On June 15, 1932, the new government lifted the ban on the SA and the SS, who were secretly encouraged to indulge in as much violence as possible.

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.

Kyle's antihero is 35-year-old Hauptsturmführer Franz Rasch, a much decorated Waffen SS commando.

During the 1983 Daytona 500, on February 20, 1983, Waltrip, a pre-race favorite to win the race, driving the Junior Johnson prepared 1983 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Pepsi Challenger, spun on lap 64, at exit of turn 4, at nearly 200 mph, as he was making an evasive maneuver to avoid rear-ending a much slower car ahead of him.

Not much is known about these years of Kryten's life, except that the human crew of the SS Augustus all died of old age, leaving Kryten alone for an unspecified amount of time.

His German handler, Herbert Rittlinger, later described him as a " useless " agent ( eine Null ), but kept him on largely, it seems, because of an affection for " this strange, by then penniless man, whose history he did not know, who pretended enthusiasm for the Nazi cause and admiration for the SS but who in reality seemed little interested in either, much preferring to talk about Tibetans ".

The October 1939 seizure by the German pocket battleship Deutschland of the US freighter SS City of Flint, as it had 4000 tons of oil for Britain on board, provoked much anti-German sentiment in the US.

One of the few ships used in World War I, the SS Creteboom, lies abandoned in the River Moy, just outside the town of Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland and is considered of much interest to the area's many tourists.

When the Waffen-SS divisions were assigned numbers much later in the war these first formations, Leibstandarte, Das Reich, Totenkopf, Polizei and Wiking would be recognized as SS divisions 1 through 5.

However, appointments were delayed by the General Staff of the Wehrmacht, who did not want an SS general to hold that much power.

After 1941, Anwärter was also used as a rank of the Waffen-SS, but to a much lesser degree than in the general SS.

The SS version is much more modern with headlights flared into the hood, curved windshield, sculptured rear deck cover and twin roll hoops.

The British Army standard training manual for platoon tactics, SS 143, was used from February 1917 onwards and contained much of what was standard for German shock troops.

Between 1930 and 1934, Haupttruppführer was also used as a rank of the SS and was held by senior SS non-commissioned officers much the same as the position was used within the SA.