These events effectively placed all German police under the control of SS commanders.

"Before," said the boy, "this was the office of the SS commander."

As a warning to others the SS commander had ordered that every man and woman between the ages of fourteen and sixty be hanged.

The SS commanders at the camp allowed the inmates to put on concerts and plays.

He had finally located the SS commander twenty miles away, near the town of Lychen, "cowering in a sanatorium with nothing more than a head cold."

Photo albums prepared after anti-partisan actions for higher SS commanders.

"We've got a problem," the SS commander snapped.

Kittel- the SS commander in charge of the ghetto.

Meanwhile, two high-ranking officers within the German army quarrel over their duties, one being an SS commander and the other a Wehrmacht general.

The SS commander watched the displays tally the horrendous casualty numbers with an unyielding basilisk gaze, then gave a tiny shrug.