SS Ranks
This is a listing of the SS ranks and their western equivalents.
| Reichsführer | National Leader |
| Oberstgruppenführer | Colonel General |
| Obergruppenführer | General |
| Gruppenführer | Lieutenant General |
| Brigadeführer | Major General |
| Oberführer | Brigadier General |
| Standartenführer | Colonel |
| Obersturmbannführer | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Sturmbannführer | Major |
| Hauptsturmführer | Captain |
| Obersturmführer | First Lieutenant |
| Untersturmführer | Second Lieutenant |
| Sturmscharführer | Sergeant Major |
| Stabsscharführer | Sergeant Major |
| Hauptscharführer | Master Sergeant |
| Oberscharführer | Senior Sergeant |
| Scharführer | Staff Sergeant |
| Unterscharführer | Corporal |
| Rottenführer | Lance Corporal |
| Sturmmann | Private First Class |
| Schütze | Private |
| SS-Mann | Private |
Source: Handbook on German Armed Forces, Washington, DC: USGPO, 1944 as quoted in Abraham Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit, History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994) page 424.
