Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Himmler
The SS stood for Schutzstaffel and were the Gestapo and ran the concentration camps.
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Schutzstaffel and led by Hitler and the entire Nazi Party.
Heinrich Himmler
They were a paramilitary group, controlled by the Nazi Party.
The term "SS" stands for Schutzstaffel, which translates to "Protection Squadron" in English. It was a paramilitary organization within the Nazi Party responsible for carrying out security and military duties, as well as implementing Nazi ideology and enforcing loyalty to the party.
He was the highest ranking officer in the Schutzstaffel("protection staff"), or SS for short. As commander of the SS, Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany.The SS was originally Hitler's personal bodyguard (hence the name), but after the Sturmabteilung ("assault section", basically the Nazi Party's own private army) was disbanded in 1934, the SS then served as the main paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party. The SS became one of the largest parts of the Nazi government- in addition to acting as Hitler's bodyguard, it also commanded most of Germany's police, ran the concentration camps and conducted the Holocaust, and even had special military units that fought in the war.
The NAZI party was a political party. The SS was a German military group.