Schutzstaffel (SS)

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The Schutzstaffel (SS) was Nazi Germany’s paramilitary organization that became a central instrument of terror, overseeing the police state, racial persecution, and the operation of extermination and concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi organization
paramilitary organization
security organization
controlled German police forces
security services in occupied territories
country Nazi Germany
dateFounded 1925
declaredCriminalOrganizationBy Nuremberg trials
surface form: International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
declaredCriminalOrganizationIn Nuremberg trials
surface form: Nuremberg Trials
dissolved 1945
dissolvedAfter defeat of Nazi Germany
distinctFrom SA
Wehrmacht
engagedIn ethnic cleansing
forced labor system
genocide
medical experiments on prisoners
foundedBy Adolf Hitler
grewFrom Hitler’s personal bodyguard unit
ideology Nazism
antisemitism
fascism
racism
leaderTitle Reichsführer-SS
loyalTo Adolf Hitler
Führerprinzip
militaryBranch Waffen-SS
nativeLanguage German
nativeName Schutzstaffel (SS) self-link
surface form: Schutzstaffel
notableLeader Ernst Kaltenbrunner
HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler

Karl Hanke
ReinhardHeydrich
surface form: Reinhard Heydrich
operatedDuring World War II
oversaw concentration camps
extermination camps
police state apparatus
partOf Nazi Party
peakMembership over one million members
placeFounded Munich
predecessor Stoßtrupp-Hitler
primaryFunction enforcement of Nazi racial policy
internal security
suppression of opposition
responsibleFor Holocaust
crimes against humanity
mass murder of Jews
mass murder of Roma
mass murder of political opponents
war crimes
shortName SS
subOrganization Schutzstaffel (SS) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Allgemeine SS

Gestapo
Kripo
Reich Main Security Office
Waffen-SS
surface form: SS-Totenkopfverbände

Reich Main Security Office
surface form: Sicherheitsdienst

Waffen-SS
symbol SS runes
translation Protection Squadron
uniformColor black

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Brack memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
subject surface form: Viktor Brack
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Helmut Vetter memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Hanns-Martin Schleyer memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Hans Kammler memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Rudolf Hermann Brandt memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Walter Reder memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Desiderius Hampel memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Fritz Witt memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Viktors Arājs memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
Jeckeln memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
subject surface form: Friedrich Jeckeln
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel
SS officer Kurt Franz memberOf Schutzstaffel (SS)
subject surface form: Kurt Franz
this entity surface form: Schutzstaffel