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They were Adolf Hitler's most ruthless Nazis. They were men often seen as the very personifications of evil. A violent group who rose to power in a democracy and established institutions of legitimized terror. Murders, brutalities, cruelties, tortures, atrocities, and other inhuman acts were an everyday occurrence.

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The SS were a paramilitary organisation, essentially the Nazi's private army.

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