Smolensk (Russian: Смоленск) was a Hansa A Type cargo ship which was built as Günther in 1944 by Neptun AG, Rostock, Germany for Hamburg South Amerika...

have been named Smolensk, including: SS Smolensk (1901), a ship of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, in service 1901–04, 1906-13 as Smolensk and with the Russian...

June 1944, and the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre on 10 June 1944. In August 1939 Adolf Hitler placed the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), later SS Division...

The second Smolensk operation (code naming "Suvorov"; 7 August – 2 October 1943) was a Soviet strategic offensive operation conducted by the Red Army as...

offices in Smolensk SS-Gruppenführer Jakob Sporrenberg, SS and Police Leader SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Franz Six SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Siegling SS-Obersturmbannführer...

called upon in emergencies. In 1944, the brigade was used as the cadre in the formation of the SS Division Horst Wessel. The 1 SS Infantry Brigade (mot) was...

29 June 1944) was a Nazi officer in the Waffen SS during World War II who orchestrated the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France on 10 June 1944. Under...

Vitebsk Ghetto), Smolensk, and Varena. It executed 41,340 people. SS-Obersturmbannführer Alfred Filbert [de] (June–20 October 1941) SS-Obersturmbannführer...

involvement. According to a report of SS-Obergruppenführer Erst Kaltenbrunner to Hitler dated 29 November 1944 on the background of the plot, states that...

Generalkommissar: Karl-Siegmund Litzmann SS and Police Leader: Hinrich Möller (1941–1944); Walther Schröder (1944) Subdivided into seven Kreisgebiete: Arensburg...