Portion of the Schutzstaffel membership from Austria
The Austrian SS was that portion of the Schutzstaffel (SS) membership from Austria. The term and title was used unofficially. They were never officially recognized as a separate branch of the SS. Austrian SS members were seen as regular personnel and they served in every branch of the SS.
the SS; 40 per cent of the staff and 75 per cent of commanders at death camps were Austrian. After the Anschluss, the AustrianSS was folded into SS-Oberabschnitt...
Anschluss, the Austrian Nazi party's military wing, the AustrianSS, was an active terrorist organization. After the Anschluss, Hitler's Austrian and German...
intrigue against Austria was a major accomplishment, as the Italian Duce had expressed great concern previously in the wake of an AustrianSS unit's attempt...
Austrian German (German: Österreichisches Deutsch), Austrian Standard German (ASG), Standard Austrian German (Österreichisches Standarddeutsch), Austrian...
SSAustria was a steamship of the Hamburg America Line which sank on 13 September 1858, in one of the worst transatlantic maritime disasters of the nineteenth...
Austrian Nazism or Austrian National Socialism was a pan-German movement that was formed at the beginning of the 20th century. The movement took a concrete...
Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was a high-ranking AustrianSS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust...
(born 29 June 1970) is a German writer. Her maternal grandfather was AustrianSS Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal Amon Göth. Her 2015...
of Austrian consorts List of heirs to the Austrian throne List of presidents of Austria List of chancellors of Austria List of Marshals of Austria Symmetria...
German-AustrianSS-Sturmbannführer and camp doctor in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Wagner was born on 15 September 1912 in Komotau, Austria-Hungary...
(also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an AustrianSS-Helferin ("SS helper") and a war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust...
Gustav Franz Wagner (18 July 1911 – 3 October 1980) was an Austrian member of the SS with the rank of Staff sergeant (Oberscharführer). Wagner was a deputy...
different Austrian state in the background. A new passport design was introduced in December 2023. German names containing umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or ß are spelled...
The Austrian identity card is issued to Austrian citizens. It can be used as a travel document when visiting countries in the EEA (EU plus EFTA) countries...
Austrofascist regime by Austrian Nazis from 25 to 30 July 1934. Just a few months after the Austrian Civil War, Austrian Nazis and German SS soldiers attacked...
portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz received widespread acclaim and won numerous accolades. Standartenführer (SS Colonel)...
was an AustrianSS commander and war criminal during World War II. He served with the SS Division Totenkopf and the SS Division Reichsführer-SS. He and...
Jean Hélion, French painter (d. 1987) 1904 – Odilo Globocnik, Italian-AustrianSS officer (d. 1945) 1905 – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd...
Franz Murer (24 January 1912 – 5 January 1994) was an AustrianSS NCO (SS-Oberscharführer). Also known as the "Butcher of Vilnius", he created and ruled...
18-25 German and AustrianSS officers and roughly 400 watchmen of Soviet origin. Over the 18 months that the camp was in service, 100 SS officers served...
two Austrian Jewish actresses, named Ruth and Gisela, were confined in an SS barracks and gang raped by SS-Oberscharfuhrer Kurt Bolender and SS-Oberscharfuhrer...
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