FBB – Führer-Begleit-Bataillon (Führer Escort Battalion)
FHQ – Führerhauptquartier (Führer Headquarters)
HQ – Headquarters
NSKK – National Socialist Motor Corps
OKH – Oberkommando des Heeres (High Command of the Armed Forces)
OKW – Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (High Command of the Armed Forces; Hitler’s staff as Supreme Commander)
OT – Organization Todt (Third Reich civil and military engineering group in Germany named after its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior Nazi figure who died in an aircraft crash at Rastenburg in early 1942)
RSD – Reichssicherheitsdienst (Reich Security Service)
RSHA – Reichssicherheitshauptampt (Reich Security Head Office)
SD – Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service)
SS – Schutzstaffel (Protection or Guard Detachment)
Waffen-SS – Fully militarised formations of the SS
German Army |
Waffen-SS |
British Army |
Gemeiner, Landser |
Schütze |
Private |
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Oberschütze |
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Grenadier |
Sturmmann |
Lance Corporal |
Obergrenadier |
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Gefreiter |
Rottenführer |
Corporal |
Obergefreiter |
Unterscharführer |
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Stabsgefreiter |
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Unteroffizier |
Scharführer |
Sergeant |
Unterfeldwebel |
Oberscharführer |
Colour Sergeant |
Feldwebel |
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Oberfeldwebel |
Hauptscharführer |
Sergeant Major |
Stabsfeldwebel |
Hauptbereitschaftsleiter |
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Sturmscharführer |
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Warrant Officer |
Leutnant |
Untersturmführer |
Second Lieutenant |
Oberleutnant |
Obersturmführer |
First Lieutenant |
Hauptmann |
Hauptsturmführer |
Captain |
Major |
Sturmbannführer |
Major |
Oberstleutnant |
Obersturmbannführer |
Lieutenant Colonel |
Oberst |
Standartenführer |
Colonel |
Oberführer |
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Brigadier General |
Generalmajor |
Brigadeführer |
Major General |
Generalleutnant |
Gruppenführer |
Lieutenant General |
General |
Obergruppenführer |
General |
Generaloberst |
Oberstgruppenführer |
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Generalfeldmarschall |
Reichsführer-SS |
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