(Polizei)
Galizische SS Freiwilligen Regiment 8 (Polizei)
Georgische Legion
162. (Turkistan) Infanterie-Division
600. (Russische) Infanterie-Division
650. (Russische) Infanterie-Division
Kalmücken-Kavallerie-Korps – See Kalmüken Verband Dr. Doll
Kalmücken-Legion – See Kalmüken Verband Dr. Doll
Kalmüken Verband Dr. Doll
Kaukasischer Waffen-Verband der SS
Nordkaukasische Legion
Osttürkischen Waffen-Verbände der SS
Russkaya Ovsoboditelnaya Narodnaya Armija (RONA):
Waffen-Sturm-Brigade Kaminski
Waffen-Sturm-Brigade RONA
Sonderverband Bergmann
Tataren-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment der SS
Turkestanische Legion
Waffen-Gebirgs-Brigade der SS (tatarische Nr. 1)
Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS (weißruthenische Nr. 1)
14. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (ukrainische Nr. 1)
29. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (russische Nr. 1)
30. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (weissruthenische Nr. 1)
Wolgatatarische Legion
United Kingdom
Britisches Freikorps (British Free Corps)
Appendix 3
Officer Rank Conversion Chart
Army
Waffen-SS
English Rank
Reichsführer-SS
Generalfeldmarschall
Field Marshal
Generaloberst
Oberstgruppenführer
General
General
Obergruppenführer
Lieutenant General
Generalleutnant
Gruppenführer
Major General
Generalmajor
Brigadeführer
Brigadier
Oberst
Oberführer
Standartenführer
Colonel
Oberstleutnant
Obersturmbannführer
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Sturmbannführer
Major
Hauptmann
Hauptsturmführer
Captain
Oberleutnant
Obersturmführer
Lieutenant
Leutnant
Untersturmführer
Second Lieutenant
Appendix 4
Terms & Abbreviations
Abteilung
department, battery, battalion
Abwehr
department of army intelligence
Allgemeine-SS
the main or general SS
Auslandsorganisation
NSDAP agency responsible for Germans in foreign countries
Auswärtiges Amt
Foreign Office, Reich Minisitry for Foreign Affairs
Einsatzgruppe
Special Task Force or special squad commanded by the SD or SIPO
Einsatzkommando
detachment of Einsatzgruppe
Feldgendarmerie
military police
Freiwillige
volunteers
Gau
NSDAP territorial entity in Reich and occupied or annexed territories, each with a Gauleiter
Gebirgsdivision
mountain division in the army or Waffen-SS
Geheime Staatspolizei
Gestapo, secret state police, department of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo)
Generalgouverment
General Government, German-occupied Poland
Germanische Leitstelle
attached to SS Main Office, responsible for Germanic SS and propaganda
Hilfspolizei
auxiliary police
Höhere SS und Polizeiführer (HSSPF)
Higher SS and Police Leader
Kreis
district
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Nationalist Socialist German Workers
Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP)
Party, Nazi Party
Oberkommando das Heeres (OKH)
High Command of the Army
Oberkommando Der Wehrmacht (OKW)
High Command of the Armed Forces, including army, navy and airforce
Ordungspolizei (ORPO)
Order Police. Regular uniformed Reich police, including Schutzpolizei and Gendermerie
Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA)
Race and Settlement Main Office, responsible for establishing and monitoring racial norms in SS and Waffen-SS, and among ethnic German settlers
Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD)
Reich Labour Service: agency exploiting foreign nationals in occupied countries
Reichsführer-SS and Chef der
Reich SS Leader and Chief of the
Deutschen Polizei
German Police: from 1936, Heinrich Himmler
Reichskommissar für die Festigung
Reich Commissar for the Strengthening
Deutschen Volkstums
of Germanism. Himmler’s title after 1939, making him responsible for resettlement of ethnic Germans
Reichskommissariat für das Ostland
Civil administration including Baltic states and White Russia (Belarus)
Reichskommissariat Ukraine
Civil administration of Ukraine excluding East Galicia
Reichsministerium für die besetzten
Reichs Ministry for the Occupied
Ostgebiete (Omi)
Eastern Territories, under Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg
Reichsleiter
highest rank in NSDAP
Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)
Reich Security Main Office
Reichswehr
German armed forces after the First