TABLE OF COMMISSIONED RANKS IN THE GERMAN ARMY, NAVY, AND SS WITH THEIR EQUIVALENTS IN THE AMERICAN MILITARY FORCES
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GermanyUnited States
ArmyNavySSArmyNavy
LeutnantLeutnant zur SeeUntersturmfuehrer2d LieutenantEnsign
OberleutnantOberleutnant zur SeeObersturmfuehrer1st LieutenantLieutenant (j.g.)
HauptmannKapitaenleutnantHauptsturmfuehrerCaptainLieutenant
MajorKorvettenkapitaenSturmbannfuehrerMajorLieut. Commander
OberstleutnantFregattenkapitaenObersturmbannfuehrerLieut. ColonelCommander
OberstKapitaen zur SeeStandartenfuehrer OberfuehrerColonelCaptain
GeneralmajorKonteradmiralBrigadefuehrerBrig. GeneralCommodore
GeneralleutnantVizeadmiralGruppenfuehrerMajor GeneralRear Admiral
General der Infanterie, Artillerie, etc.AdmiralObergruppenfuehrerLieut. GeneralVice Admiral
GeneraloberstGeneraladmiralOberstgruppenfuehrerGeneralAdmiral
GeneralfeldmarschallGrossadmiralReichsfuehrerGeneral of the ArmyAdmiral of the Fleet
★ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1947——O833GS
TRANSCRIBER NOTES
Punctuation and spelling has been maintained except where obvious printer errors have occurred including missing periods or commas for periods. American spelling occurs throughout the document. There are differences in spellings of cities depending on whether the source is the prosecutor or part of a quoted statement. Multiple occurrences of the following spellings which differ and are found throughout this volume are as follows:
LuxembergLuxembourg
EsthoniaEstonia
KiewKiev
Czecho-SlovakiaCheckoslovakia
Although some sentences may appear to have incorrect spellings or verb tenses, the original text has been maintained as presented and read into the record and reflects the actual translations of the various national documents presented as material for the trial(s). This volume has no German, Polish, Czech, Russian or other eastern European diacritics, only French diacritics. As a result, Goering and Fuehrer are spelled without umlauts throughout.
In preparing this ebook, proofers noted several errors of fact between the text and the documents being referenced. These are noted in the text as [sic] next to the original text. These are:
Page 141: "The SA Conquors Rastenberg," 26 January, 1936[sic]: p. 7. The correct date was 26 January, 1935.
Page 196: “The Purge of 20[sic] June 1934.” Should read “The Purge of 30 June 1934.”
Page 196: Himmler referred to this same event in his Posen speech when he is quoted “Just as we did not hesitate on June 20[sic] 1934, to do the duty we were bidden . . .” should also read June 30 1934.
Page 695: A photograph published in “Der Stuermer” in April 1937 . . . “Ritual murder at Polna . . . by the Jews Hilsner, Erdmann[sic], and Wassermann, taken from a contemporary postcard” . . . The actual “Der Stuermer” edition has the photograph caption “by the Jews Hilsner, Erbmann, and Wassermann . . .”
Page 700: “The fire-brigades, which had been notified immediately, saw to it that the fire was continued[sic] to the original outbreak.” The actual document states that the fire was confined, and not continued, to the original outbreak.
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