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…;Germany occupied western Poland in fall 1939. Much of this territory was taken over by the German Reich. At the Wannsee Conference in Berlin in January 1942, the SS and representatives of German government ministries estimated that the "Final Solution…

…Youth undoubtedly played a key role in the overall plan for the Third Reich. The movement was an invaluable source of zealous members for the NSDAP and affiliated organisations and later the main source of recruits for the SS. However the youth movement…

…-Westpreussen and Wartheland. Also, following the initiative of the Gauleiter of the Prussian province of Pomerania, transports of German handicapped were sent to killing sites in the east where a local SS battalion (Wachsturmbann) under the command of SS…

…, this is controversial among the literature. Hilberg claims that “on November 29, 1941, he [Heydrich] sent invitations to a number of Staatssekretäre and chief of SS main offices for a “Final Solution” conference (The Destruction of the European Jews, p164.) The institution…

…a special force which would be used to transport and take care of all political prisoners and people thought to be inferior. The name of the force was the feared SS. Mass propaganda was used to persuade the German people that the "Fuhrer" would make the country…

…when it came time for them to go to the camps they had a false sense of hope. Most often these people were minutes away from their last breath. The Concentration camps were a place that the SS or the Schutzstaffel or protective units took the non-Aryans…

…, and an attempt by the prosecution to substitute his son for trial was rejected by the Tribunal. The prosecution made a decision to charge a number of Nazi and army organizations, such as the SS and the General Staff, as criminal organizations, which added…

…. This was just a legend and all that happened was that a associate officer of Stauffenberg accidentally saluted the swastika and at that time it was not yet the state flag. Stauffenberg was disgusted with the actions of the Schutzstaffel also known as the SS…

…the SS, Hitler's secret police force. The women in the SS corps were just as brutal as the men; some were stationed at the concentration camps during the Holocaust. There are stories which exist that tell of female SS officers ripping babies out…

…been briefed on certain "special orders" affecting the conflict ahead. These involved the use of collective measures against villages in areas of partisan activity. Russian political officers, partisans and Jews were to be handed over to the SS…