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The regular German army was the Wehrmacht. The SS amounted to an entirely separate, additional national army. The regular army wore gray uniforms; the SS wore black. The regular army had several hundred divisions, the SS had several dozen. The regular army was highly professional and had many officers of very high ability and training. The SS men were often fanatical Nazis, and their officers were selected more for racial purity and political reason than for any professional ability. Because of the fanatical fighting tendencies of their men and their ruthlessness the SS were nevertheless formidable foes. Because the SS were the darlings of the political leadership they often got first dibs on new equipment and supplies. The SS and Wehrmacht units often fought side by side, but cooperation could be difficult due to the lack of professional officers in the SS. The SS had several branches. The branch which put troops in the field to fight alongside the army was the Waffen SS. There were also branches which ran the concentration camps, including the death camps, and also the Einsatzgruppen, which murdered people in masses where they were found in occupied countries, without bothering to send them to any camp. (The Wehrmacht also engaged in war crimes, though not on as large a scale and not as part of its official goals and plans, usually).

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