Himmler in early SS uniform, with rank of Oberführer

With the SA thus neutralised, the SS became an independent organisation from 20 July 1934, responsible only to Hitler, and Himmler's title of Reichsführer-SS became the highest formal SS rank.

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

During his 11 years with the SS, Heydrich truly " rose from the ranks ", being appointed to every rank from private to full general.

The SS was distinguished from other branches of the German military, the National Socialist Party, and German state officials by its own rank structure, unit insignia, and uniforms.

Even so, Göring was reported to have disliked Himmler to the last days of the war and even turned down honorary SS rank since he did not want to be subordinate to Himmler in any way.

Such persons normally held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer or above and answered directly to Himmler in all matters pertaining to the SS in their area of responsibility.

The majority wore a distinctive national collar patch and preceded their SS rank titles with the prefix Waffen instead of SS.

These groups had their own uniforms with a modification of SS rank titles and insignia.

He was also granted the SS rank of Obergruppenführer.

Returning to the Eastern Front as a newly commissioned officer, Wittmann was reassigned to the SS Panzer Regiment 1, a tank unit with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer ( second lieutenant ), where he commanded a Panzer III tank.

He was awarded the Golden Party Badge and was given the honorary rank of a Gruppenführer in the SS.

Seyss-Inquart also received an honorary SS rank of Gruppenführer and in May 1939 he was made a Minister without portfolio in Hitler's cabinet.

He was also given an honorary rank of Obergruppenführer in the SA and the SS in 1934.

During World War II, the SS maintained an equivalent rank known as Obersturmbannführer.

Brunner was a trouble-shooter for the Schutzstaffel ( SS ) and held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer ( Captain ) when he organized deportations to Nazi concentration camps from Vichy France and Slovakia.

In joining the SS, Darnand took a personal oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, receiving a rank of Sturmbannführer ( Major ) in the Waffen SS.

He left the SA in August 1930 for the SS, where he quickly rose in rank after recruiting new members and building up the SS organization in the Bavarian palatinate.

Nevertheless, Krüger was left without a job temporarily, until he re-entered the SS while still keeping his SA rank.

He was appointed chief of the administration department in the staff of the Reichsführer-SS (" National leader SS ") and given the rank of SS-Standartenführer on 1 February 1934 and began to influence the administration of the concentration camps.

Historian Peter Longerich observes that Himmler's ability to consolidate his ever-increasing powers and responsibilities into a coherent system under the auspices of the SS led him to become one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich.

The SS is closely associated with Nazi Germany's concentration camp system.

The first system to become operational and to see combat was the French Nord SS. 10 during the early 1950s.

J & E Hall of Dartford, England outfitted the ' SS Selembria ' with a vapor compression system to bring 30, 000 carcasses of mutton from the Falkland Islands in 1886.

The colours are defined in both CIE 1931 and CIE 1976 standards, Swedish standard SS 01 91 22 and by the Pantone Matching system:

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

PARAM 9900 / SS was designed to be a MPP system.

* SS, DS, ES, FS, or GS are segments loaded with a segment selector for a system segment

It included a built-in 3. 5 inch SS / DD floppy drive, which was used to boot the operating system as well as store samples and sequences.

Early SS armband using the rank stripe system

In mid-1925, the Schutzkommando was renamed the Sturmstaffel ( storm squadron ) and in December the Schutzstaffel ( protection squadron ), and in the following year adopted its first recognizable rank insignia system which was used mainly by senior SS personnel at major rallies, with the rank and file of the SS, like the rest of the SA, still wearing a variety of brown shirts or paramilitary uniforms with no recognizable insignia.

Thus, the very first SS rank system was as follows:

Under the above system, basic SS troopers were organized into 10-man Staffeln, each under the authority of a Staffelführer.

The higher SS ranks of Standartenführer, Gauführer, and Reichsführer like their SA counterparts now used a system of oak leaves displayed on both collars of the brown SA shirt.

The earliest SS rank system, used during the year 1929

In addition to the collar unit insignia, the SS now created a cuffband system which was worn on the lower left sleeve.

In December 2007, Giorgio Bettio, a city councillor of Treviso, Italy and member of the Northern League party, suggested that " With immigrants, we should use the same system the SS used, punish 10 of them for every slight against one of our citizens " in reference to Italy's current debate over immigration policies.

The first-generation TrailBlazer is based on a truck platform called GMT360, with all models having four-wheel drive as an option with both automatic engagement and the more traditional " 4 High " and " 4 Low " gearings, except the SS model which features an All wheel drive system.

The Ordnungspolizei was separate from the SS and maintained a system of insignia and Orpo ranks.

The traditions of the Orpo continued in East Germany, which maintained a state police force ( Volkspolizei ) designed after the SS structures, being based on a centralized system.

Ordnungspolizei (" Orpo ") ranks were based on local police titles and were considered a separate system from the ranks of the SS.

This was due in large part to separate the SS rank system from the SA, now considered two completely separate organizations.

On April 6, 1945, the wooden tower and the masts carrying the system of T-antennas were blown up by the SS to prevent its capture by the Allies in World War II.