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Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler , 1900-1945, German Nazi leader. An early member of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party, Himmler took part in Adolf Hitler's "beer-hall putsch" of 1923, and in 1929 Hitler appointed him head of the SS, or Schutzstaffel, the party's black-shirted elite corps. ... Read more
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler , 1889-1945, founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), and German dictator, b. Braunau in Upper Austria. Early Life The son of Alois Hitler (1837-1903), an Austrian customs official, Adolf Hitler dropped out of high school, and after his mother's death in 1907 moved... Read more
National Socialism
National Socialism or Nazism, doctrines and policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. In German the party name was Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); members were first called Nazis as a derisive ab... Read more
secret police
secret police policing organization operating in secrecy for the political purposes of its government, often with terroristic procedures. The Nature of a Secret Police Enforcement of the law has required, in nearly all societies, a certain amount of secrecy, particularly in the investigat... Read more

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Alois Brunner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...born 1912) helped engineer the Nazi destruction of European Jews, sending over 125,000 people to death camps. SS (Schutzstaffel) Captain Alois Brunner served Adolf Eichmann in organizing the Nazi destruction of European Jews. Eichmann called Brunner...
National Socialism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...militia was the brown-shirted SA, the Sturmabteilung [storm troops]. The elite was the black-uniformed SS, the Schutzstaffel [security echelon], under Heinrich Himmler . The party had its own salute (the raised arm and the words Heil Hitler...
Heinrich Himmler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Himmler took part in Adolf Hitler's "beer-hall putsch" of 1923, and in 1929 Hitler appointed him head of the SS, or Schutzstaffel, the party's black-shirted elite corps. When Hitler came to power he made Himmler head of police in Munich and then...
SS
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...Hall putsch of 9 November 1923. With the re-launching of the Nazi Party in 1925 a small Stabswache reappeared, named Schutzstaffel soon after. From then on, it expanded more or less continuously, albeit in decentralized form, with the establishment...
Adolf Eichmann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of 1945-1946. For the first time a Jewish court convened in judgment upon a former persecutor. Eichmann was that SS (Schutzstaffel) officer responsible for transporting Jews and other victims to the extermination camps. What motivated him? The trial...
Franz Xaver Schönhuber
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...cities. In 1942, at age 19, Schönhuber volunteered for service in the elite military wing of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel), the Waffen-SS. He was posted to France, Corsica, Italy, and Yugoslavia. In 1943 he was decorated with the Iron...
Gestapo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...enforcement of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. In 1936, Heinrich Himmler, head of Hilter's special forces unit, the Schutzstaffel (SS), was given command of the Gestapo and the Kriminalpolizei , or Kripo. In 1939, in the months prior to the beginning...

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Gestapo
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...control of the force passed to HIMMLER , who had restructured the police in the other German states, and headed the SS or Schutzstaffel . The Gestapo was effectively absorbed into the SS and in 1939 was merged with the SD or Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service...
SS
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military SS 2 the Nazi special police force. Founded in 1925 by Adolf Hitler as a personal bodyguard, the SS provided security forces (including the Gestapo ) and adminstered the concentration camps. abbreviation of German Schutzstaffel 'defense squadron.'
Deutsches Insitut für Psychologische Forschung und Psychotherapie (Göring Institute)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...from German industry and business. Individual psychotherapists and psychoanalysts also worked under the aegis of the SS (Schutzstaffel) and the Wehrmacht (German Army). In 1942 the institute became a member of the Reich Research Council, which, under...

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The SS version.(Books)(Schutzstaffel, a large security and military organization of the Nazi Party in Germany)(Les Bienveillantes)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Les Bienveillantes, by Jonathan Littell; Editions Gallimard, 2006, 25 [euro]. IT IS HIGHLY DISTURBING to see the fall of the Reich and the Holocaust through the eyes of an unrepentant SS officer. We are used to Primo Levi and Imre Kertesz taking us down that terrible path and to fusing with the
REVIEW: The SS: A Warning from History.(Guido Knopp)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books; 5/14/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...2000-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Schutzstaffel ('Protective Corps') were formed...appointed Heinrich Himmler as leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1929 there were only 280...start of the Second World War, the Schutzstaffel had developed into the elite paramilitary...
crank call; King George
Newspaper article from: Seven Days; 12/15/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...difference between the Nazi "Sturmstaffel" and the "Schutzstaffel," or S.S. I can assure Mr. Eardley that I do know the difference, and that if I'd wanted to say "Schutzstaffel," I would have. Neither did I mention the S.S...
NAZI UNIFORMS HOLD LARGE STAKE IN MILITARY COLLECTIBLES
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 11/28/1997; 700+ words ; ...mannequins in his basement dressed in different World War II German uniforms, was interested in a Nazi Schutzstaffel uniform. The Schutzstaffel was the dreaded SS. The price on that gray uniform once worn by the SS officer is $800. Of course...
The library of the Reich Security Main Office and its looted Jewish book collections.
Magazine article from: Libraries and the Cultural Record; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...German Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst, or SD) operated as the intelligence branch of Hitler's bodyguards (the Schutzstaffel, or SS) and was responsible for the security of the Third Reich, the National Socialist Party, and Hitler himself...
Juxtaposed with history, inquiry into why Nazis did what they did.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 6/9/2002; 700+ words ; ...method of execution. The primary means of mass murder, the author tells us, were firearms and lethal privation. "The Schutzstaffel (SS), or Secret Police, which had existed in Germany as an independent organization under Adolf Hitler since 1934...
New books.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; When the Wehrmacht and Schutzstaffel arrived in Poland in 1939 (the Germans' third foray into European civilization in seventy years), these new terrors of anti...
Homophobic propaganda and the denunciation of same-sex-desiring men under National Socialism.
Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Sexuality; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...overthrow of Ernst Rohm and his associates within the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the attendant rise of Heinrich Himmler and the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1934, the rumor that "homosexual cliques" planned to seize power took hold, giving "homosexuals" another...
Every item has a story to tell.(Capital Region)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/24/2005; 700+ words ; ...its side with the angular double Sig rune, the helmet is believed to have belonged to the most feared Nazi troops - the Schutzstaffel , or SS. "They were the worst troops the Germans had. They were horrible," Hess said. "So that stuff demands big...
U.S., Soviets Ignored `Ivan' Evidence
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/15/1993; 700+ words ; ...a Ukrainian, not a German or Nazi, chose to become a number of the Ukrainian SS (Adolf Hitler's elite troops, the schutzstaffel) during World War II. Whether Demjanjuk was at Treblinka or Sobibor is not the point. He willfully joined an organization...