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Franz Walter Stahlecker: (1900-1942) Nazi police and intelligence officer; SS-Brigadefuehrer; SD officer; HSSPF of Bohemia and Moravia, then Norway; commanded Einsatzgruppe A; killed in action while HSSPF Ostland ^[e]

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Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard ^[e]
Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II ^[e]
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Einsatzgruppe A [r]: Einsatzgruppe attached to Army Group North (Russian Front), operating grom East Prussia across Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia toward Leningrad (now St. Petersburg); Kovno, Riga, and Vilna; commanded by Franz Walter Stahlecker ^[e]
HSSPF Ost [r]: Add brief definition or description

Army Group North (Russian Front) [r]: First commanded by Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, then Georg von Kuechler and Walter Model; one of the initial army groups in Operation Barbarossa; eventually became Army Group Courland near the end of WWII ^[e]
Erich von Hoepner [r]: (1886-1944) German Generaloberst; served in WWI, Reichswehr and Wehrmacht; anti-Nazi before 1933; tank and mobile warfare specialist; dismissed from command in 1942 for a tactical retreat against Hitler's orders; executed for participation in the 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler in which he was designated Minister of War ^[e]