No. The SS was a NAZI force separate from the GERMAN army. The main differences being that the German army wore their grey uniforms and fought according to the Geneva convention (they did not commit atrocities, they were the main force used for invasions etc.) whereas the SS was a force of Nazi fanatics, they believed in Hitler not Germany, they wore camouflage or Black uniforms.
The SS was responsible for the Holocaust, and the slaughtering of the Slavs.
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Additional AnswerA correction the the above answer. The SS stopped wearing black uniforms around 1937. During the war, they wore Army-style uniforms with SS insignia. SS Panzer crews wore black uniforms similar to the Army's black unforms -however, these were nothing like the prewar SS 'black uniform'. It's also incorrect to say that the SS was a force of 'Nazi fanatics', as many Waffen-SS units were formed from Western and Eastern volunteers who were more anti-communist than nazi.
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The SS were the "Schutzstaffel", Hitler's elite paramilitary force during World-War II era Germany. They were the military arm of the Nazi Party. Essentially, they served as the personal army of Hitler and the Nazi Party; under Heinrich Himmler, the SS led many of the atrocities committed by the Nazis. Specifically, the SS were responsible for organizing and executing most of the logistics of the Holocaust
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The Wehrmacht was the regular German army during World War II, while the SS (Schutzstaffel) was a paramilitary organization under the control of the Nazi Party. The Wehrmacht focused on traditional military operations, while the SS was responsible for enforcing Nazi ideology, carrying out atrocities, and running concentration camps.
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Simply he didn't. To get into the Nazi military (the SS) people had to prove their pedigree.
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Dress daggers for German WW2 Army, Navy, luffwaffe, SS, SA, & Hitler Youth
The Waffen-SS was a kind of Nazi elite, separate from the German Army. It also served as a kind of foreign legion, as the regular army did not accept foreigners. The SS was also responsible for running the concentration camps and extermination camps. I don't think the SS enlisted foreigners until the last year of the war. The SS were selected for their pure German lineage. Most if not all were members of the Nazi political party They were used to maintain the Nazi rule and acted as security forces. The secret police were a branch of the SS. The Waffen-SS were organized as a combat force during the war and were part of the SS. The Army were regular civilian soldiers who enlisted. They did not have to be members of the Nazi party nor hold to their beliefs of the pure race. They were ordinary soldiers who fought for their country. ____ The SS was a Nazi party political force in a way that the German Army was not. As for the recuitment of foreigners, that started with the establishment of the 'Viking' division in 1940. It was made up of 'Nordic' volunteers from the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark and was commanded by Felix Steiner. Later, in 1943, the 'racial' requirements were largely dropped, and the SS set up Ukrainian, Latvian and other divisions and even a Bosniak Muslim division. Please see link for more detail.
the einzatzgruppen in the nazi German was the "attack battalion" of the ss against the Jude,they killed millions of person. when the wehrmacht or the German army occupied a country the einzatzgruppen stay in the rearguard and then they kill all the civilians and the intelectuals of that country.they was the killers batallion of the ss and the ss contribution to the final solution.
Adolf Eichman, Nazi SS Major
The SS were the "Schutzstaffel", Hitler's elite paramilitary force during World-War II era Germany. They were the military arm of the Nazi Party. Essentially, they served as the personal army of Hitler and the Nazi Party; under Heinrich Himmler, the SS led many of the atrocities committed by the Nazis. Specifically, the SS were responsible for organizing and executing most of the logistics of the Holocaust
Henrich Himmler was leader of all SS troops. He was captured at the end of the war and committed suicide while in captivity to avoid war crime trials.
The Nazi SS stormtroopers wore brown shirts and uniforms from 1929 to 1932. However, the Nazi SS soldiers also wore uniforms that were black in color and shirts that were brown. With time, there were other changes to the SS Nazi uniform in terms of insignia, colors, and to show the different ranks.
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