* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

By November 1944 Himmler had merged the army officer recruitment department with that of the Waffen-SS and had successfully lobbied for an increase in the quotas for recruits to the SS.

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

" One SS officer stated they each took cyanide and were shot by an SS trooper, on Goebbels ' prior orders.

* 1951 – Oswald Pohl, German SS officer ( b. 1892 )

* 1908 – Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer ( d. 1975 )

* 1903 – Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist ( d. 1989 )

* 1915 – Joachim Peiper, German SS officer ( d. 1976 )

* 1897 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer ( d. 1979 )

* 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer ( d. 1946 )

* 1919 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian SS officer ( d. 1999 )

* 1979 – August Heissmeyer, German SS officer ( b. 1897 )

In 1933, he was given honorary SS officer rank of SS-Standartenführer.

* 1944 – Christian Wirth, German police and SS officer ( b. 1885 )

* 1911 – Dr. Josef Mengele, German physician and SS officer ( d. 1979 )

* 1894 – Artur Nebe, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

Following the convictions, Hanns Martin Schleyer, a former officer of the SS and NSDAP member who was then President of the German Employers ' Association ( and thus one of the most powerful industrialists in West Germany ) was abducted in a violent kidnapping.

Standartenführer ( SS Colonel ) Helga Von Bulow is a high-ranking officer within the SS Paranormal Division and also founder of the order of the Elite Guards, the SS Paranormal Division's all-female security force.

In the early days of the SS, officer candidates had to prove German ancestry to 1750.

* 1944 – Artur Phleps, German SS officer ( b. 1881 )

* 1919 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )

In a historic moment, Heisenberg's mother rang Himmler's mother and asked her if she would please tell the SS to give " Werner " a break.

Clausen's failure in the elections and his unwillingness to actively assist in forming a Danish branch of the Schutzstaffel alienated his German supporters, and as such SS Obergruppenführer Dr. Werner Best, the Plenipotentiary of the German Reich for Denmark, convinced Clausen to step down as leader of the party and replaced him with a three man committee shortly after his return to Denmark.

Later that day he asked SS physician Dr. Werner Haase about the most reliable method of suicide.

Himmler was captured, though not identified on May 22, along with his Waffen SS aides, Werner Grothmann and Heinz Macher.

Werner Wolff ( SS officer ) | Werner Wolf, here as a SS-Untersturmführer of the Waffen-SS.

Hogan's Heroes episode " Praise the Fuhrer and Pass the Ammunition ", Corporal Louis LeBeau ( Robert Clary ) sings " Alouette " in order to prevent SS Colonel Deutsch ( Frank Marth ) from leaving a talent show set up by Colonel Robert E. Hogan ( Bob Crane ) on Colonel Wilhelm Klink's ( Werner Klemperer ) 50th Birthday.

SS Chief Himmler immediately launched an inquiry into the incident which was deliberately blocked by Lieutenant Colonel Werner Schrader – the investigative officer in charge and, as it turned out, a fellow conspirator.

" Deborah / What Looks Best On You " – Dave Edmunds: SSK 19413 ( UK, August 1978 ), SS 1970 ( Australia )

" Trouble Boys / What Looks Best On You " – Dave Edmunds: SS 70118 ( US, November 1978 ), SS 19. 415 ( Holland )

Best known for the polarising body kit and bluish-silver colour, the VL Group A SS was also the first model to feature a fuel-injected version of the Holden V8, with the first EFI VN Holden Commodore V8s not released until August 1988.

In late April 1945 Best was transferred to Tyrol together with about 140 other prominent concentration camp inmates, where the SS left the prisoners behind.

Numerous future members and leaders of the Nazi Party had served in the Freikorps, including Ernst Röhm, future head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, Heinrich Himmler, future head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and Rudolf Höß, the future Kommandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The Totenkopf ( death's head ) symbol, used by German military units for hundreds of years, had been chosen for the SS by Schreck.

By the mid-1930s, Hitler ’ s most powerful subordinates were Hermann Göring, as head of the Four Year Plan for crash rearmament, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and police apparatus.

However, the inability of Himmler to persuade Hitler to cease his support of Bormann, the defection of SS generals such as Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and his powerful subordinate Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, to Bormann, soon persuaded Goebbels to align himself with the Secretary to the Führer at the end of 1944, thus accepting his subordinate position.

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

| 75px < div style =" clear: left "> Hermann Göring </ div >|| G || G || G || G || Death || Reichsmarschall, Commander of the Luftwaffe 1935 – 45, Chief of the 4-Year Plan 1936 – 45, and original head of the Gestapo before turning it over to the SS in April 1934.

Before 1929, the SS wore the same brown uniform as the SA, with the exception of a black tie and a black cap with a Totenkopf (" death's head ") skull and bones symbol on it.

* May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, former head of the Nazi SS, commits suicide in British custody.

* May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, German head of the SS ( suicide ) ( b. 1900 )

* October 7 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official and SS head ( d. 1945 )

SS can be excluded from people with past head and neck radiation therapy, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ), pre-existing lymphoma, sarcoidosis, graft-versus-host disease, and use of anticholinergic drugs ( since a time shorter than four times the life of the drug ).

However, other senior Nazi officials, including Heinrich Himmler ( head of the SS ), Robert Ley ( leader of the DAF ), and Max Amann ( proprietor of the Zentral Verlag ( Central Press ), comprising 80 percent of the German press in 1942 ), endorsed the publication, and their statements were often published in Der Stürmer.

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.

It is also the area where the body of Heinrich Himmler, a leading figure in Nazi Germany and head of the SS, was secretly buried in an unmarked grave, following his suicide.

In February 1945, the head of the Swedish office of the WJC, Hilel Storch, established contact through an intermediary with SS chief Heinrich Himmler.

Walther Friedrich Schellenberg ( 16 January 1910 – 31 March 1952 ) was a German SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the ranks of the SS to become the head of foreign intelligence following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.

The preliminary versions were discussed by the SS head Heinrich Himmler and his most trusted colleagues even before the outbreak of war.

D ' Alquen himself became a prominent SS war reporter after September 1939 and towards the end of the war was appointed by Himmler as head of the Wehrmacht propaganda department.

Tschirschky wrote that Strasser was murdered in an adjoining cell in the basement by an SS squad, which shot him in the temple and back of the head several times.

One head female overseer, Helga Hegel, referred to her female guards as " SS " women at a post-war hearing.

Shloyme smashed his violin over the SS officer's head and marched with his only child into the gas chamber

In June 2005 journalist Ben Fenton of The Daily Telegraph received an email from a colleague asking him to investigate documents held at TNA that alleged that a British intelligence agent had, on the orders of Winston Churchill, murdered Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, in 1945.