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Hermann Julius Walther Rauff, also Walther Rauff (19 June 1906 – 14 May 1984) was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Service ( Sicherheitsdienst or SD ), later in the Reich Security Main Office .
Einsatzkommando headed by SS officer Walter Rauff in Tunis, North Africa. Einsatzkommando Finnland Officially the Einsatzkommando der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD beim AOK Norwegen, Befehlsstelle Finnland , Einsatzkommando Finnland was a German paramilitary unit active in northern Finland and northern Norway .
Walter Rauff – SS-Standartenführer and aide to Reinhard Heydrich. He escaped captivity at the end of the war, subsequently working for the Syrian Intelligence. Hermann Rauschning – A Nazi leader in the Free City of Danzig. Walter Reder – SS-Sturmbannführer convicted of war crimes in Italy.
The Geheime Staatspolizei (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈhaɪmə ˈʃtaːtspoliˌtsaɪ] ⓘ; transl. "Secret State Police"), abbreviated Gestapo (German: [ɡəˈstaːpo] ⓘ), [3] was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
Condemned to death in 1946-commuted to 15 years-released March 1954-died 21 April 1959. Brother of SS Colonel Hans Loerner. 37719 July 1932 676772 Wilhelm Meinberg: Reich Chairman of the Reichsnährstand; Board of Directors, Reichswerke Hermann Göring; chairman of the neo-Nazi Deutsche Reichspartei, 1955–1960. 99436 7 October 1933 218582 ...
The SiPo was composed of two sub-departments, the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo; "Secret State Police") and the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo; "Criminal Police"). [3] In correspondence, the RSHA was often abbreviated to RSi-H [ 4 ] to avoid confusion with the SS-Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA; "SS Race and Settlement Office").
This table contains the final ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS, which were in use from April 1942 to May 1945, in comparison to the Wehrmacht. [1] The highest ranks of the combined SS (German: Gesamt-SS) was that of Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions.
The Einsatzgruppen were SS mobile death squads, operating behind the front line in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.From 1941 to 1945, they murdered around 2 million people; 1.3 million Jews, up to 250,000 Romani, and around 500,000 so-called "partisans", people with disabilities, political commissars, Slavs, homosexuals and others.