The Waffen-SS was the combat wing of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel, or SS, as well as the multiethnic and multinational military force of Nazi Germany. Throughout the length of the war it would go from a shabby fighting force to the most brutal, feared, and detested military organization in the world. Originally the SS started as adjunct group to the SA, a political wing of Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist Party. When the National Socialist Party came to power in the early 1930’s, the SA had been
SS The Schutzstaffel (SS) started off as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguards. They later became one of the most feared and powerful organizations in all of Germany. Founded in 1925, the SS started off as a small group of eight members who were lead initially by Julius Schreck, a dedicated Hitler loyalist. The SS crew grew to more than 250,000 by the start of World War II. The SS did more than just guard Hitler; they guarded the concentration camps, and the Waffen-SS specialized in brutalizing and
Leadership Analysis: Otto Skorzeny “The Most Dangerous Man in Europe” Otto Skorzeny was an Austrian born SS-Obersturmbannführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II. Skorzeny was trusted with leading some of Nazi Germany’s most daring and covert operations during World War II. His tough upbringing along with early experiences with leadership helped mold him into the leader he became later on in his life. Before Skorzeny was one of Hitler’s most trusted leaders, he was a student. Before the
__________________________________________________________________________________ "I prayed with them and cried out to my God and theirs. How glad I should have been to go into the gas chambers with them! How gladly I should have died the same death as theirs! Then an SS officer in uniform would have been found in the gas chambers. People would have believed it was an accident and the story would have been buried and forgotten. But I could not do this yet. I felt I must not succumb to the temptation to die with these
only showed Nazi ships. Then from the corner emerged more ships coming out of Hyperspace. Zealot insignias! But they were not so many and right behind them emerged something much more sinister that caused the Psychlos to groan in collective dismay. The SS Death Star.
There are several cases of assassinations, many which have gained more recognition by the public than others. One of those more "unrecognized" assassinations, is the assassination of a man named Reinhard Heydrich. Reinhard Heydrich was a Nazi general, who sought destruction in the Jewish economy. The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich was unjust because he experienced a rather challenging time growing up with being bullied, and he was rumored to have a Jewish bloodline. But these actions he suffered
Halifax’s harbour, business and industry were booming as factories, foundries, and mills were the demands of a wartime economy. The explosion took place on the morning of December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully loaded with wartime explosives, was involved in a collision with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited the ship’s explosive cargo
The Edmund Fitzgerald Since commercial shipping began on the five Great Lakes, there have Been six thousand shipwrecks. Half have never been found. There are three storms The sailors still talk about: The great storm of 1913 claimed 250 lives and 12 ships. The storm of 1940 claimed 100 lives and two ships. The storm of 1975 claimed only one ship and 29 lives. The wreck of 1975 remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes. The legend of the Edmund
November 10th, 1975, a massive storm rolls over Lake Superior. As many ships make their way towards the safety of the coastline, one ship is left behind, in the dark turbulent night. That ship, The Edmund Fitzgerald now lye in the depths of the Superior. The events of that night and what happened to the 729-foot freighter are still a mystery to the world. Many theorize what conditions caused the ship to go down that night. Some theories deal with the weather conditions as well as focusing on equipment
There are mysteries which man can only guess at, which may only ever truly be solved in part; the SS Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is one of them. At the time it was launched in 1958, the 729-foot long, 75-foot wide freighter was the largest ship to ply the Great Lakes. Although, on November 9, 1975 the ship embarked upon what would become its final voyage. She was carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets and bound for Detroit, and though the day was bright, in her path laid great turbulence.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was one of the most famous ships that ever sailed lake Superior. The Fitzgerald was one of the fastest ships that sailed Superior, she often broke her own records and set new ones.The Fitzgerald was the largest freshwater ship in history and was just 140 feet shorter than the Titanic. The Fitzgerald or Fitz ( thats was what the crew called her) was built in 1958. She was put in the water on June 8th 1958. In his book Andrew Kantar says “The Edmund Fitzgerald was named after
people to be slaughter and not do anything to save them. During Simon Wiesenthal time as a Jewish Holocaust, Simon was invited to a military hospital where a dying Nazi SS officer wanted to have a conversation. The Nazi SS officer told Simon his story of his life and confesses to Simon of his horrific war crimes. Ultimately, the SS officer wanted forgiveness for what he done to Simon’s Jewish people. Simon Wiesenthal could not respond to his request, because he did not know what to do with a war criminal
Imagine you are a thirteen year old growing up in Germany, 1938. Some of the kids at school are talking about a new program called the Hitlerjugend (or Hitler Youth). It sounds fun and exciting with its camping trips and home meetings so you decide to join. The Hitlerjugend is just as fun and exciting as it sounded and as the years pass you gain new skills; loyalty to Hitler and German; and growing hatred for Jews, Blacks, the handicapped, and other “burdens of the state”. To you this is simply a
The Bermuda Triangle Is the Bermuda Triangle really a place where strange powers are at work? The Bermuda Triangle is a very complex and mystifying area that is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft. From reading this paper one will learn geographic features of the Bermuda Triangle, famous disappearances, and possible explanations for them. There is a section of the western Atlantic, off the southeast coast of the United States, forming what has been
The Bermuda Triangle is one of the biggest mysterious places in the world. Its exact location is at the Atlantic Ocean, which is bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. In a normal daily life, it is a part of a regularly sailed shipping lane with cruise ships and many small boats also frequently sailing through the sea. Aircraft are also common in the Bermuda Triangle with both private and commercial planes commonly flying over it. While it has a nickname that shows its horror side-the Devil's
Adolf Hitler founded the Schutzstaffel or the "SS". The Schutzstaffel was created to serve as Hitler's personal bodyguards, and as time passed by they became one of the most feared organizations in Nazi Germany. They were considered to be the most elite guard in Nazi Germany. In 1929, the SS began to grow in size. Each member had military training. During this time there were 300 members of the SS. Later on, Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler as the new SS leader. In 1931 Himmler created the Security
Hours before the end of World War II in Europe, and only 5 days after the suicide of Adolf Hitler, U.S Soldiers joined by a group of renegade German Wehrmacht, thwarted an assault by Waffen-SS to recapture Castle Itter which was an abandoned strong hold still housing French and Italian V.I.P prisoners of war. The Castle located in Austrian Alps in a region known historically as Tyrol and the battle that took place here on May 5th, 1945 would be continuously referred to as one of the strangest in
captured by the Waffen SS and held is Castle Itter but were rescued by an unlikely bunch; American and German Soldiers fighting side by side. The only reason this could take place was because of the fact the war was just days from being over. Itter Castle is a small castle sat on a hill near the village of Itter in Austria. After the German annexation of Austria, the German government officially leased the castle in late 1940 from its owner, Franz Grüner. The castle was taken from Grüner by SS Lieutenant
The Reichsfuhrer-SS head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, minster of the interior from 1943 to 1945 and organizer of the mass murder of the Jews in The Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler is born in Munich, Germany. Himmler graduates from high school in Landshut. Himmler receives his degree in agriculture from the Technical University in Munich. Himmler joins the Nazi Party. Himmler marches in the Beer Hall Putsch against the German government. Himmler marries Margarete Boden. Adolf Hitler appointed Himmler
medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. These experiments were created to collect research on topics such as hypothermia, treating of illnesses and injuries, twins, and how people of different races responded to disease1. Josef Mengele was a SS physician, infamous for the brutal experiments he conducted on prisoners in Auschwitz between May 1943 and January 19452. Pre-Nazi Party and Education Mengele got his PhD in physical anthropology from the University of Munich, and begun working with