Oskar Schindler

SS Ranks (Based on US Army Equivalents)

SS-Oberstgruppenführer: General

SS-Obergruppenführer: Lt. General

SS-Gruppenführer: Major General

SS-Brigadeführer: Brigadier General

SS-Oberführer: Senior Colonel

SS-Standartenführer: Colonel

SS-Obersturmbannführer: Lt. Colonel

SS-Sturmbannführer: Major

SS-Hauptsturmführer: Captain

SS-Obersturmführer: First Lieutenant

SS-Untersturmführer: Second Lieutenant

SS-Sturmscharführer: Sergeant Major

SS-Hauptscharführer: Master Sergeant

SS-Oberscharführer: Technical Sergeant

SS-Scharführer: Staff Sergeant

SS-Unterscharführer: Sergeant

SS-Rottenführer: Corporal

SS-Sturmmann: Corporal

SS-Oberschütze: Private First Class

SS-Schütze: Private

SOURCE: Heinz Hőhne, The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS (New York: Ballantine Books, 1971, 744).