Gottlob Berger
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Gottlob Christian Berger was a German senior Nazi official who held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS and was the chief of the SS Main Office responsible for Schutzstaffel rec
Berger wearing the rank of an SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in 1944
The Inspector of Concentration Camps, SS-Gruppenführer Theodor Eicke (pictured as a SS-Obergruppenführer) was appointed to command the new SS-Division-Totenkopf, which was formed using personnel from the SS-TV
Danish recruits joining the Waffen-SS in 1941
Generalmajor Alfred Jodl took a dim view of Berger's diversion of potential Wehrmacht recruits to the SS
SS-Verfügungstruppe
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SS-Verfügungstruppe was formed in 1934 as combat troops for the Nazi Party. On 17 August 1938 Adolf Hitler decreed that the SS-VT was neither a part of the Ordnungspolizei nor the Wehrmacht, but milit
LSSAH troops undergo a drill inspection in Berlin, November 1938
SS-VT in full marching order, 1935
Motorcycle unit of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf in the Soviet Union, 1941