Definition of Waffen SS in English:
noun(the Waffen SS)
The combat units of the SS in Nazi Germany during World War II.
- It is certain that his admission into the group would have been far more complicated had he admitted to being a former Waffen SS recruit.
- A few units - the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front was notorious in this respect - had a rule not to take any prisoners at all.
- On the same day, December 17, a Waffen SS unit under the command of Joachim Pieper murdered 113 American prisoners.
German Waffen 'arms, weapons'.
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