A Presentation On The Schutzstaffel

Within Germany, a country torn between the rise of a totalitarian party that determined a superior race, Nazism, and the survival of the oppressed, young Germans face a test between a sense of self and society. Individuality would be suppressed within this new type of society, and being different would be the deadliest obstruction to life. The violations of the rights to life, religion, and speech are relived through the stories of the German youth that lived through this haunting time, whose name would be tarnished in their struggle to survive. In their fight, their morals would be challenged and influenced until the Nazi regime ended, and the violation of human dignity would leave them wondering if life was worth living after all. The Nazi Party grew under its leader, Adolf Hitler, which struggled not to use violence against those that disagreed with their views, starting with armed groups known as the Strum Abteilung, who pledged to be ready to sacrifice their life in the aims of the Nazi Party and absolute loyalty to their leader. Their cruel intolerance began by their strong nationalism and their hatred of democracy and communism, and they gained power through the economic depressions around the world, controlling the media by instilling fear and propaganda that influenced a strong belief in their leaders. This belief in the leaders would soon seem to override Church influence when the official body of the Church failed to do anything significant

The SS and Gestapo (secret police) acting under the orders of Himmler, made terror a regular occurrence and a matter of state policy. Any sort of opponents were beaten and regularly thrown

It argued that Germany had been betrayed by signing the Treaty of Versailles, and forced into paying reparations to Jewish financiers and was surrounded by enemies. Also one of the main points was the belief that Germans were the Herrenvolk or master race, and should have living space in the east where they could expand and prosper. When Hitler was released from jail in

gestapo was a vital protection to Hitler's power, they helped maintain order and keep any opposers out of Germany that are trying to stop the natzi and their ultimate goal of exterminating the jews. The Gestapo was dissolved with the fall of the 3 Reich in 1945. Many of the personal bodyguards consisted of agents of former Gestapo prison officials they were highly respected authority and served good protection to Hitler's safety at public speeches. Gestapo also served as a natzi spi base and was used to find potential threats to the

Reichswehr was the name of Germany’s military from 1919 to 1935. In July 1919 I was appointed by an agent of a reconnaissance commando of Reichswehr to spy on the German Workers’ Party (DAP). The DAP became the Nazi Party in the same year I was assigned to spy on them. I was told to monitor the DAP’s movements and activities and to influence other soldiers. As I spied on the DAP, I started to get more and more attracted to the things they were doing and their ideology. I really liked the ideas of the founder of DAP (Anton Drexler) ideas. His views were anti-semitic, anti-capitalist, nationalist, anti-Marxist, so this made me want to join the Nazi party. I was the 55th member of the Nazi Party. First I became a member and soon I became a leader in the

He was “the type of person who could strike up a conversation with anyone, particularly in a bar” (8). He joined the Nazi Party, and with his skillset, quickly became a military spy stationed in Poland. After the Germans captured Krakow, Schindler took over a kitchenware factory formerly belonging into Abraham Bankier, promising that he would then hire its original Jewish workers back to work in it. He kept his promise, naming the factory the “Deutsche Enamel Fabrik,” or “Emalia.” While the Nazi regime’s anti-Jewish policies were harsh, Schindler strived to protect his employees, once even personally threatening a low-ranking SS officer to release his workers or be reported his acquaintance, an SS General Julian

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

In the 1930s, there was a power shift in Germany towards the Nazi party. Oskar Schindler sensed this, and joined a local pro-Nazi group. He got involved with the military after

Nazi paramilitary formations, such as the Storm Detachments (Sturmabteilungen or SA) and the Protection Squads (Schutzstaffelor SS), had been established during the 1920s to terrorize any type of opponent of the Nazi party. The Reichstag Fire Decree, suspended the provisions of the Germans which protected basic rights, freedom of press, freedom of speech, and finally freedom of assembly. This decree also permitted increased state and police intervention into legal rights to listen in on phone conversations, censoring mail, and search into private homes without a warrant. Under the state of emergency established by the decree, the Nazi party could arrest and detain people without cause and without limits on the length of

Schutzstaffel (SS) – A powerful group who helped Adolf Hitler and protected him from danger. They started off as a small group but got bigger and started many smaller groups.

October 1944, after the SS transferred the Emalia Jews to Plaszow, Schindler sought and obtained authorization to relocate his plant to Brünnlitz (Brnenec) in Moravia, and reopen it solely as an armaments factory. One of his assistants drew numerous versions of a list of up to 1,200 Jewish prisoners needed to work in the new factory. These lists came to be known collectively as “Schindler's List.” Schindler met the necessities required by the SS to classify Brünnlitz as a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp and thereby facilitated the survival of about 800 Jewish

After the 1929 Stock Market Crash, America demanded that Germany pay their loans, causing unemployment rates in Germany to soar. By 1932 the unemployment rate in Germany had reached over six million people. In the 1920’s many people were seeking the answer to the economic problems of Germany, the Nazi Party provided those answers. The Nazis began as “a small anti-Semitic group which developed into the German Workers’ Party (DAP).”

When looking into the history of Germany and determining what led to the startling rise in Nazism in Germany and its detrimental effects on the social outcasts in Europe, it can be easy to deduce that the Nazi regime was one where Hitler walked in with his officials and took office by force. The truth is that, while the Nazi party is responsible for the atrocities that occurred before and during WWII, they would have not gotten far if it hadn’t been for the cooperation of the German people themselves. Life in the Third Reich provides proof through voting, youth programs and village life that the Nazi party rose into power with German support.

<br>Hitler regained control of the Nazi Party upon his release in December 1924. From 1925 to 1930 Hitler built a network of local parties over most of Germany. He also organized the Schutzstaffel or the "SS", a group that performed police tasks. They carried out violent acts against Hitler's enemies. Unemployed young men who joined Hitler's groups were given food, shelter, uniforms and a sense of purpose.

Heydrich, chief of the SD (the security service of the SS), referred to the need for an Endlösung