The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police and internal security duties in Germany and the militarised Waffen SS had more than eight hundred thousand men serving in[...]

In Nazi Germany, they were called the "Schutzstaffeln." The world would know them as the dreaded SS--the most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich.
It began as a small squad of political thugs. Yet by the end of 1935, the SS had taken control of all police and internal security dutie[...]

Trots att SS var en av Tredje rikets viktigaste institutioner är dess olika roller ofta missförstådda och hopblandade. Från slutet av 1935 kontrollerade SS samtliga polis- och säkerhetsfunktioner i Tyskland. Den militariserade grenen, Waffen-SS, hade mer än 800 000 män i aktiv tjänst och sto[...]