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.
The Hitler Youth was the soldiers in the SS who were not yet over the age of 18___They were a kind of Nazi party equivalent to the boy scouts. They were not 'soldiers in the SS'.
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.
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.
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Heinrich himmler
Schutzstaffel and led by Hitler and the entire Nazi Party.
Heinrich Himmler
They were a paramilitary group, controlled by the Nazi 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.
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
The Hitler Youth was the soldiers in the SS who were not yet over the age of 18___They were a kind of Nazi party equivalent to the boy scouts. They were not 'soldiers in the SS'.
Yes, Wernher von Braun was a member of the Nazi Party and the SS during World War II. He was a leading figure in the development of the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany before later working on the American space program.