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Bookmark or Share- History and role of the SS in Nazi Germany - Encyclopedia BritannicaLearn about the role of the SS, headed by Heinrich Himmler, in Adolf Hitler's reign of terror. How did Hitler seize power in Germany?
- What was the SS? - About HolocaustBeginning in March 1933, the SS ran the network of concentration camps in which opponents of the Nazi regime were imprisoned, tortured, and often killed. From 1941, this included the death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland where millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
- Waffen-SS - WikipediaThe Waffen-SS (German: [ˈvafn̩ʔɛsˌʔɛs]; lit. ' Armed SS ') was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's paramilitary Schutzstaffel (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with volunteers and conscripts from both German-occupied Europe and unoccupied lands. [3]
- SS | History, Meaning, & Facts | BritannicaSS (abbreviation of Schutzstaffel [German: ‘Protective Echelon’]), the black-uniformed elite corps and self-described ‘political soldiers’ of the Nazi Party. Founded by Adolf Hitler in 1925 as a small personal bodyguard, the SS grew with the success of the Nazi movement and became virtually a state within a state.
- Schutzstaffel - Wikipedia'Protection Squadron'; SS; also stylised with Armanen runes as ᛋᛋ) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.
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