Dienstalterslisten der SS information

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Dienstalterslisten der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP, English: SS seniority lists of the NSDAP, were official documents that were issued in book form by the Reichsführung-SS (“SS-Personalamt”) between 1934 and 1945.

Up until 1942, these lists included the higher officer corps (SS-Obergruppenführer—SS-Standartenführer), the middle officer corps (SS-Oberführer—SS-Sturmbannführer) and the lower officer corps (SS-Hauptsturmführer—SS-Untersturmführer).

On the whole, it can be said that these lists of officers included the entire range of the NSDAP's Schutzstaffel (SS) and not only officers of the Allgemeine SS (General SS), but also those of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, the SS-Verfügungstruppe, the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and the Sicherheitsdienst Reichsführer SS included.

The SS officer lists were used by the allies in 1946 to convict and punish SS officers at the Nuremberg trials.