The Schutzstaffel: Adolf Hitler's Protection Squad

The Hitler Youths were taught that Adolf Hitler was a loving father-figure who was always watching. In 1984, the whole population is constantly shown propaganda that Big Brother is always watching. The kids in 1984 love Big Brother more than their own parents, in the Hitler Youth, children were taught that Hitler was more important than their own family. The main reason why the Hitler Youth and the Junior Spies exist is the same, they both want to infiltrate family life.

In the final years of the war, Himmler and Eichmann proposed the concept to place the Jewish people in camps and eliminate the rest of the Jewish people before the war was over; this concept was known as the “Final Solution.” These SS soldiers are the main cause of the Holocaust because they were the group that fully helped consummate Hitler’s idea to remove the Jewish people out of Germany and, in the end, they gave the orders to mass murder any Jew alive.

Hitler’s generals strongly disagreed with his policies even to the point of attempting an assassination. Multiple times Hitler’s officer tried to stop him from wreaking havoc on the German way of life. Their repeated warnings went unheard, resulting in Germany’s downfall. The German war effort was vastly influenced by the Anti-Nazi tendencies of Hitler’s senior officers.

(Nazi German Schutzstaffel) unit in Austria that controlled emigration. This unit was well-known for their Jewish looting and throwing Jewish individuals out of the country. (Brager,1) He was in charge of Jewish affairs for eight years and was not the chief of department IVB. This department was in charge of executing Adolf Hitler’s final solution. Karl was the head of all of this, he was executing these plans.

Germany occupied 16 countries at this time. This made Eichmann one of the most powerful men in the Third Reich. His office was the headquarters for creating all ghettos, transportation , death camps, and killing techniques of the Jews [ (Wistrich) ]. At the beginning of World War II, many SS officials began murdering aristocracy, professionals, clergy, political commissars, suspected saboteurs, Jewish males and anyone deemed a security threat (The History Place). This marked the beginning of the senseless killing of European Jewry.

Source C co-insides with Source B as it further stipulates that Himmler was to further implement the “Final- Solution” which was the Nazi plan to annihilate the Jewish and all “sub-humans” . After the invasion of Poland ,the SS (source B) under the orders of Heinrich Himmler, acted as mobile killing units with massive killing operations in the jewish communities . Mobile gas vans where implemented under the SS.

Richard Rhodes. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2002

Jews were systematically murdered in the deadliest genocide in history, which was of part of a border aggregate of acts of oppression and killing of various ethnic and political groups in Europe and under the coordination of the Schutzstaffel, also known as SS. With the direction from the highest leadership of the Nazi party, and every arm Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistic and the carrying out of the mass murders.

After researching many different explanations trying to explain why the members of the einsatzgruppen were able to commit mass murder, I think it is fair to conclude that it is wrong to label the entire Einsatzgruppen has being anti-Semitic people. The men that joined the S.S were no doubt anti-Semitic and had a loyalty to do whatever the Nazi party told them to do. The S.S were responsible for giving the reserve police battalion “pep talks” before the battalion went out to round up the Jews of a town and considerable effort was made to prepare them for mass murder . This validates the point that the members of the S.S were the cold blooded killers in the einsatzgruppen because the Nazi's knew that the S.S would not have any problems carrying

Kurt Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat who served as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981. He would also serve a single six-year term as president of Austria in 1986. During his candidacy for president, however, Waldheim was embroiled in a serious of controversies that drew attention to his involvement within a German Army that had engaged in brutal reprisals against the Jewish population of Salonika, Greece, during WWII. Throughout the German occupation of Greece (1941-1944), Waldheim was a young lieutenant and intelligence officer for the Wehrmacht. Consequently, it was the life of Waldheim had inspired author and historian Mark Mazower to travel to Athens in order to discover “what he had known and done”

Racial matters were mostly dealt with the Allgemeine-SS. It was divided into many other sub-groups, from which the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA: Reich Security Central Office) was the most important. This group controlled the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo: Security Police), which consisted of the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo: Criminal Police) and the infamous Gestapo which was led by Heinrich Mueller. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD: Security Service) was another sub-group of the RHSA that specialized in intelligence and espionage.

They were originally in charge of the safekeeping of the meetings in Munich, but later, under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, it grew from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Third Reich. They wore black uniforms with a skeleton’s head on their hats, their motto “Unsere Ehre heisst Treue” (Thy honour is thy loyalty), on their belts. They had sworn eternal faith to their Führur and were of his most ruthless henchmen, often seen as the epitomes of evil. Although they were responsible for the brutal killings during WWII, the men whom were in the SS were found to be psychologically normal.

All single and married women up to the age of thirty-five who do not already have four children should be obligated to produce four children by radically pure, German men.” This statement was made by Hitler’s government in 1933 that became a further law in Germany. Analyzing this argument it’s possible to say that Hitler Youth movement started before the birth of the child.

Schutzstaffel translated into English means “protection squadron” or defence corps”. And it was a major parliamentary organisation, under the command of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It was made up of Nazi Party Volunteers to provide security for Nazi Party Meetings in the city Munich.

Nazi party developed racist ideology based on anti- Semitism and a belief of superiority of Aryan Germans. Nazis also believed that all races, especially Jews, were inferior to them. They also believed in absolute authority of the Government – it was supposed to control all aspects of the citizens' lives.In 1919 Hitler joined the German workers party and in 1921 became a leader of the party. Nazi party itself was partly established on the developing discontent and frustration with the Weimar republic, after the First World War loss. One of the typical Nazi propaganda posters in 1932 said "Our last hope Hitler". By the year 1933 Hitler and his party took over power in Germany. During the same year Hitler's secret service called Gestapo was set up with one primer goal – to detect enemies of the State and make them harmless.Nazis had very strong views on the role of women in their society. At some point Nazis started to think that women should be at home and only raise their children and they wanted to make sure that children were brought up with the "proper views", according their Nazi ideology.Most of the boys joined German Young People at the age of 10 and between 14 and 18 were attending military training and later on even military service. Girls were supposed to become members of Young Maidens by the age of 14 and later on join the League of German Maidens before the age of 21.