Waffen-SS

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:military_organization
gptkbp:activeYears 1939–1945
gptkbp:allegiance gptkb:Adolf_Hitler
gptkbp:country gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:declaredCriminalOrganizationBy gptkb:Nuremberg_Trials
gptkbp:disbanded 1945
gptkbp:founder gptkb:Heinrich_Himmler
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:Berlin
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Waffen-SS
gptkbp:involvedIn gptkb:Holocaust
gptkb:Warsaw_Uprising
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Battle_of_the_Bulge
gptkb:Balkans_Campaign
gptkb:Eastern_Front
gptkb:Western_Front
gptkb:Italian_Campaign
gptkb:Normandy_Invasion
war crimes
Massacres of civilians
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkbp:motto gptkb:Meine_Ehre_heißt_Treue
gptkbp:notableCommander gptkb:Heinrich_Himmler
gptkb:Felix_Steiner
gptkb:Paul_Hausser
gptkb:Sepp_Dietrich
gptkbp:notableFor war crimes
fanaticism
brutality
elite status in Nazi Germany
gptkbp:notableUnit gptkb:3rd_SS_Panzer_Division_Totenkopf
gptkb:5th_SS_Panzer_Division_Wiking
gptkb:Leibstandarte_SS_Adolf_Hitler
gptkb:SS_Division_Charlemagne
gptkb:SS_Division_Galicia
gptkb:SS_Division_Handschar
gptkb:SS_Division_Nordland
gptkb:12th_SS_Panzer_Division_Hitlerjugend
gptkb:2nd_SS_Panzer_Division_Das_Reich
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:Schutzstaffel_(SS)
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Schutzstaffel_(SS)
gptkbp:recruitedFrom gptkb:Germany
occupied Europe
foreign volunteers
gptkbp:role gptkb:military_organization
war crimes
security operations
combat troops
gptkbp:size over 900,000 at peak
gptkbp:symbol gptkb:SS_runes
gptkbp:uniform field-grey military uniform
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Günter_Grass
gptkb:infantry
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4