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Parent topics

• German military forces [r]: German military traditions and organization from pre-19th century unification, through the World Wars, through reunification ^[e]
• Reichswehr [r]: German defense organization under the Weimar Republic; limited by the Treaty of Versailles but with a clandestine general staff and rearmament function in the Truppenamt ^[e]
• Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard ^[e]

Subtopics

• Waffen SS [r]: "Armed SS", principally SS elite combat units of divisional and corps strength, but also used for special duties in security and genocide; overall command of Oberstgruppenfuehrer Paul Hausser ^[e]

SS major units

Corps and commanders

• Sepp Dietrich [r]: Add brief definition or description

Divisions and commanders

• Das Reich Division [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Totenkopf Division [r]: Combat division organized from Totenkopf SS and commanded by Theodor Eicke; fought in the Battle of France under Erich Hoepner and on the Russian Front ^[e]
  • Theodor Eicke [r]: Nazi Gruppenfuehrer; first commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp and became Inspector of Concentration Camps; with Michael Lippert, personally killed Ernst Roehm during Night of the Long Knives purge; commanded SS Totenkopf Division 1939-1943, when killed in a plane crash ^[e]

Other related topics

• International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [r]: Conducted by the four major Allied powers in Europe, this proceeding tried the designated Major War Criminals of Nazi Germany, as well as determining whether certain Nazi organizations were to be considered as criminal conspiracies to which membership was a crime ^[e]
• War crime [r]: Acts that violate the laws of war as they applied in the time and place of commission, or that were deemed violations of law, possibly ex post facto, as determined by a competent tribunal ^[e]
• Einsatzgruppe [r]: Plural is Einsatzgruppen; Nazi mobile security, and then killing units, which accompanied Army units advancing into Austria, Poland and Russia; units on Russian Front carried out mass murder in Holocaust prior to the construction of extermination camps ^[e]
• Allegemeine SS [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Totenkopf SS [r]: Detachments of the SS organized into concentration camp guards by Theodor Eicke ^[e]
• RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD ^[e]
• WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps ^[e]