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No, Hitler had thousands of bodyguards. Hitler's original bodyguards were the SA (Sturmabteilung), but it soon became apparent to him that he did not have their total loyalty and posed a danger to him and so he created a personal bodyguard called the Stoßtrupp (shock troop).

Following Hitler's failed coup attempt in 1923, the Stoßtrupp was disbanded but reformed in 1925 as the Schutzkommando and eventually became known as the Schutzstaffel (SS). The SS soon grew to incorporate over 50,000 men and a decision was made to select the best men to form a new protection unit. 117 men were picked to form the SS-Stabswache Berlin. Two traing units for further bodyguards were then also created: Sonderkommando Zossen and SS-Sonderkommando Jüterbog. In November 1933, on the 10th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, the Sonderkommandos were ammalgamated and renamed Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH or LAH).By the end of the war the LSSAH had grown from a regiment into a full-blown panzer division.

Another set of Hitler's bodyguards were the Reichssiherheitsdienst (RSD), (originally Führerschutzkommando), which were set up on the personal orders of Hermann Göring.

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