- Germanic-SS
The Germanic SS ("Germanische-SS") was the collective name given to
paramilitary groups which arose in conquered and subject nations ofNazi Germany between1939 and1945 and which were modeled on designs of the German "Schutzstaffel " (SS). The Germanic SS was founded on principals identical to the "Allgemeine-SS " and its purpose was considered to be enforcement of Nazi racial doctrine andAnti-Semitic ideals.The Germanic-SS typically engaged in such duties as serving as local security police and augmenting units of the
Gestapo ,Sicherheitsdienst , and other commands of theRSHA . The group was most notorious in theNetherlands where the Germanic-SS was employed to a great extent inJewish roundups for deportations to death camps.After the close of
World War II , most members of the Germanic SS were branded as traitors to their countries and several independent war crimes trials were conducted by the nations in which the Germanic-SS had existed.It should be noted that the Germanic-SS was not the same as the Foreign Legions of the
Waffen-SS , although many Germanic SS members would join this sister organization in the last years of the Second World War.List of Germanic-SS Organizations
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Netherlands : "Germaansche SS in Nederland " (before 1942: "Nederlandsche SS")
*Flanders (Belgium ): "Germaansche SS in Vlaanderen" (before 1942: "Algemeene-SS Vlaanderen")
*Norway : "Germanske SS Norge" (before 1942: "Norges SS")
*Denmark : "Schalburgkorps "An underground Nazi organization also existed in Switzerland, known as the "Germanische SS Schweiz". It had very few members and was considered merely a splinter Nazi group by Swiss authorities.
France, which isn't a country of Nordic origins like Germany or any of the Scandinavian nations, did not maintain a Germanic-SS group, but the police forces of the Vichy Government assisted local SS authorities. The
British Free Corps did not maintain a Germanic-SS group either as the British are not a Nordic people, but later became (at least on paper) a division of the Waffen-SS Foreign Legions.Germanic-SS ranks
The Germanic SS maintained an insignia system identical to the
ranks and insignia of the Schutzstaffel . The various names of the ranks was slightly modified depending upon the particular country in which they were used. The following is a comparison of regular SS and Germanic-SS rank titles.ee also
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Jonas Lie (government minister)
*Meinoud Rost van Tonningen
*Christian Frederik von Schalburg
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