SD

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SD is the abbreviated name commonly used for the SS Security Service, the intelligence and security agency of Nazi Germany’s Schutzstaffel.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi organization
intelligence agency
security service
abbreviationFor Sicherheitsdienst
activeDuring Nazi era
World War II
allegiance Adolf Hitler
branch Allgemeine SS
Waffen-SS (field intelligence elements)
collaboratedWith Gestapo
Kripo
SS-Totenkopfverbände
country Nazi Germany
dateEstablished 1931
dissolved 1945
establishedBy Heinrich Himmler
fullName Sicherheitsdienst
function intelligence gathering
internal security
persecution of Jews
political repression
support for the Holocaust
surveillance of population
headquartersLocation Berlin
ideology Nazism
jurisdiction German Reich
occupied Europe
leader Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Reinhard Heydrich
notableCommander Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Reinhard Heydrich
operatedBy Schutzstaffel
oversaw ideological monitoring of German society
parentOrganization Schutzstaffel
partOf Nazi security apparatus
SS
recognizedAs criminal organization at Nuremberg Trials
responsibleFor crimes against humanity
war crimes
subordinateTo RSHA
Reich Main Security Office
targetedGroup Jews
political opponents
resistance movements
usedMethod coercion
informant networks
interrogation
surveillance reports

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