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Standard practice for SS generals serving as an [[SS and police leader]], as well as those senior SS personnel of the [[SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt|RSHA]], was to hold dual police rank as ''SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei''. ''SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS'' was the equivalent in the armed SS; in 1944, most active SS generals received this designation in order to command military troops during the last days of the war. Approximately fifteen SS generals were ranked as ''SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS''.
SS-''Obergruppenführer'' was considered the highest rank of the ''[[Allgemeine SS]]'' until April 1942; equivalent to a [[lieutenant general]] (three-star general) in the American and British armies.{{sfn|Flaherty|2004|p=148}} It was only outranked by Himmler's special rank of ''Reichsführer-SS''. However, within the
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