Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was a German general, politician and war criminal in the Schutzstaffel during the Nazi era.
General Dietrich, 1944
Hitler with Dietrich in Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics
Dietrich in Greece, April 1941
Dietrich during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945
The Waffen-SS was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both German-oc
Sepp Dietrich
…education at all), Dietrich rose to become (along with Paul Hausser) SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, the highest-ranking commissioned officer rank in the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS, commanding units up to the army level during World War II. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was elected to the…
SS Division Das Reich, Soviet Union, 1942
Parade for the third anniversary of the LSSAH on the barracks' grounds with Sepp Dietrich at the lectern, May 1935
The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler on parade in Berlin, 1938
Members of the Einsatzgruppen murdering Polish civilians in Kórnik shortly after the outbreak of World War II in Europe