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Max Simon (6 January 1899 – 1 February 1961) was a German SS-Gruppenführer (lieutenant General) und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS during World War II, who was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Simon was a private in the Prussian Army during World War I and was one of the first members of the SS in the early 1930s. He would rise through the ranks of the SS, and become a Corps commander during World War II. At the end of the war he was captured by the Allies and put on trial for war crimes. ==Early career== Simon was born in Breslau. In 1917 he joined the Royal Prussian Army's Leib-Kürassier-Regiment ''Großer Kurfürst'', which was part of the 11th Division. He served in Macedonia and on the Western Front, being awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class (1914). At the end of the war he joined the Freikorps in Silesia and fought against the Polish forces. His unit was later incorporated into the Reichswehr as the 16th Cavalry Regiment and Simon was promoted to Unterfeldwebel.〔 In May 1933 he joined the SS service number 83 086 and the NSDAP party number 1 350 576, and was assigned to the 47th SS-Standarte in Gera and was promoted to Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) in November 1934, until ordered to raise a new unit in 1935, 1st SS Totenkopfstandarte ''Oberbayern'' and given the rank of Standartenführer (Colonel).〔 In 1934 he was appointed as the commander of the Sachsenburg, concentration camp.〔Valhalla's Warriors By Terry Goldsworthy, p.235〕 In 1938 he was involved in the Anschluss of Austria, the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia and the occupation of the Sudetenland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Max Simon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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