The Nazi SS

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This paper examines the history and missions of the SS. SS units such as the Leibstandarte became Hitler's most effective fighting units for they were the most ideologically motivated and the best equipped divisions in the German military. The paper shows that like all SS units, the SS Leibstandarte had originally been formed as a one hundred twenty man personal bodyguard for Hitler and guarded him at the Nuremberg rallies.

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"On September 1, 1939 Adolph Hitler unleashed the overwhelming and terrifying military might of the German Luftwaffe and Whermacht upon Poland. Over the next few months Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, and France were also attacked and conquered. And in 1941, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Russia were invaded. All of this was done with the fervent and overwhelming approval of a great majority of the German people, tens of thousands of whom took a direct role in establishing the lethal infrastructure of Hitler's Final Solution, which was operated by Heinrich Himmler's SS. One the war began the original security role of the SS was expanded. In addition to being in charge of security, the SS also began to provide elite combat units."

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