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SS (Schutzstaffeln, guards unit) Chief paramilitary force of Nazi Germany. It was originally Adolf Hitler's bodyguard but expanded after 1928, under Heinrich Himmler, to become the Nazi Party militia and internal police force. With its distinctive black uniform, the SS controlled the Gestapo and the SD (security organization). It ran the concentration camps and, from 1936, controlled the police. After the outbreak of war it formed its own fighting units, notorious for their ferocity, known as the Waffen SS.

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