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    The Schutzstaffel, better known as the infamous SS, were established by Hitler, to act as protection force at Hitler’s mass meetings in public. Many of these meetings were violent and ugly, during the Nazis early quest for power. As such it formed part of the Nazi militia, the brown shirted Sturmabteilung, also better known by the initials SA. Unlike the SA, however, whose origins derived from the nationalist Freikorps of the post – Great War period, the SS owed its loyalties to Hitler alone and

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    Good Morning/Afternoon Class Luke Slide 1: Jo and I have done our Pechakucha presentation on the Schutzstaffel or as is it is most commonly referred to as the SS. Jo Slide 2: Schutzstaffel or most commonly known as SS is a guard unit that began in 1923. 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

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    The Schutzstaffel was an elite paramilitary unit that was formed in 1925 by Adolf Hitler to serve as a personal bodyguard unit during the interwar period. The insignia for the Schutzstaffel is SS. After many commanders of the SS, Heinrich Himmler was later appointed as the commander of the Schutzstaffel. (Slide 2) During World War II, the SS evolved and increased in number. Their operations also became bigger and more numerous. The SS were the ones to create the concentration and labour camps throughout

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    The Schutzstaffel and Death Camps Essay

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    The SS was formed in 1925 by Adolf Hitler under the SA for the sole purpose of providing security for Hitler and other Nazi leaders, security for political meetings, and soliciting subscribers for the party's newspapers. The SS stands for the Schutzstaffel and its main focus was initially was protection and eventually rose through the Nazi power structure under its most infamous figure, Heinrich Himmler who was put in charge of the SS in 1929 when there were only 280 SS members. He initially fell

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    of Aryan blood. “The Final Solution” was the name of Hitler’s plan to kill all those deemed “undesirable”. To exterminate the many “unfit”, the Nazis set up death and concentration to slaughter the many who were forced to travel there. The Schutzstaffel, also known as the SS, was “Hitler’s personal army”, and did a lot of his “dirty work” like implementing the Final Solution (Britannica Encyclopedia 2015). The SS, was an organized, loyal and deadly group of Aryan men. During

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    What was the impact of the Schutzstaffel (SS) within Nazi Germany in supporting the Nazi Regime? WWII was established in Germany via the Nazi party and Hitler, as their leader. It was a worldwide war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 due to the corrupt Germany from the previous war regarding the Treaty of Versailles. It involved an immense majority of the world's nations—including all of the substantial great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis and involved

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    Hitler would never have gotten as far as he had, if it was not for the Schutzstaffel (SS). The SS was mostly responsible for the mass genocide, from the police force to the control of the concentration camp system, which answered the so-called Jewish question with the annihilation of the Jewish people. Jewish people were thought to be weak and holding Germany back from the victory of the war, but few knew that the SS had enough power to help Hitler take over the world. The SS contributed to the mass

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    World War Two was a time of death, starvation, and sorrow. Schutzstaffel, the Nazi German military, doctors found that they could allow unusual people into medical camps. Allowing the doctors to do experimentation on dwarfs, babies, and twins. The brains behind the medical branch was a man who wanted nothing but to multiply the German race, through twins. Josef Mengele’s life wasn’t an ideal life, but one of life and death, knowledge and experimentation, hatred and escape. Mengele’s life was a

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    of the SA was to allow Hitler to rise to power by taking down his opponents using violence (“Schutzstaffel”). It was made up of ex-soldiers who were discontent with the Weimar Republic and its incompetence (“Schutzstaffel”). The SA “was purged when Hitler used SS to execute SA leaders to secure political support,” which shows how a totalitarian state can even turn its back on its supporters (“Schutzstaffel”). The SA aided Adolf Hitler to become Chancellor and the Fuhrer but ultimately were dissolved

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    Heinrich Himmler was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the SS of the Nazi party from 1929 until 1945” (“Himmler”). Himmler was appointed the task of carrying out the Final Solution created by Hitler, which was then delegated to even more people. Himmler “led the SS into a large paramilitary organization that was prominent in Nazi Germany,” (“Himmler”). Himmler had so much power that he controlled all of the police units in Nazi Germany, which made him the second most powerful person in Nazi Germany

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