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The (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; Secret State Police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... The double-Sig Rune SS insignia. ... Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ... Sicherheitsdienst (SD) sleeve insignia. ... A member of Einsatzgruppe D is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1942. ... Reinhard Heydrich - the first director of RSHA The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Main Office), was a subordinate organization of the SS created by Heinrich Himmler on September 22, 1939, through the merger of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, or Security Agency), the Gestapo (Secret State Police) and the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police). ... The Ranks and insignia of the Schutzstaffel were a paramilitary rank system used by the German SS, to differentiate the group from the German military, German state, and the Nazi Party. ... This is a list of German divisions in WWII. Only ground units are covered; divisions of aircraft are not. ... The Leibstandarte on the march. ... The SS-Verfügungstruppe (combat support force) (short: SS-VT) was created in 1934 from the merger of various Nazi and right-wing paramilitary formations. ... Heinrich Himmler as the Reichsführer-SS Reichsführer-SS was a special SS rank that existed between the years of 1925 and 1945. ... The Allgemeine-SS was the name for the General SS (as in generic or basic SS) which consisted of part-time mustering SS formations created under the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1945. ... Flag of the Ordnungspolizei The Ordnungspolizei (OrPo) was the name for the regular German police force that existed in Nazi Germany between the years of 1936 and 1945. ... The Sicherheitspolizei (security police) was a term used in Nazi Germany to described the combined forces of the Gestapo and Sicherheitsdienst (the SD) between 1934 and 1939. ... Higher SS and Police Leaders were senior Nazi Party officials that commanded large units of the SS during and prior to the Second World War. ... ... Das Schwarze Korps (The Black Corps), the official SS newspaper. ... The SS-Führungshauptamt (SS-FHA) was the operational headquarters of the SS. It was responsible for the administration of Officer Schools (Junkerschulen), Medical services, logistics, and rates of pay. ... The SS-Hauptamt (translated as SS Head Office) was the central command office of the German Schutzstaffel (SS). ... The Allach makers mark featuring the SS insignia. ... The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt or WVHA (also SS-WVHA) was the Economics and Administrative Department of the SS. It was formed in March 1942 under the command of Oswald Pohl and evolved to five main divisions (German: Ämter or Amtsgruppe): Amt A, Finance, Law and Administration Amt B, Supply, Administration... SS Heimwehr Danzig was an SS unit established in the free city of Danzig (today Gdańsk, Poland) prior to the start of the Second World War. ...
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