These are some facts and curiosities about the SS:
• the first SS formation appeared in 1923. In fact, it was in March of that year that the first military formation of the future SS Order was formed, the Strabswache, guard of the headquarters.
• Born to be Adolf Hitler's bodyguard, they swore an oath of loyalty and honor to him alone.
• To distinguish itself from other SA formations, the new formation chose the skull as its distinctive sign.
• On January 6, 1929, Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler head of the SS, which at the time numbered only 280 men. With Hitler's approval, Himmler expanded the ranks of the SS and by the end of 1932 it already had 52,000 members. After just one year they had reached over 209,000 men.
• Their motto was "My honor is called loyalty".
• Rudolf Hoss, the commander of Auschwitz, said in his autobiography: The Fuhrer commands, we obey, it was neither a phrase nor a slogan for us. It was a concept taken terribly seriously.
• The SS received control of the Gestapo in 1936. By the time the Second World War began, the number of members rose to 250,000; the Waffen-SS was formed in December 1940 to fight alongside the Wehrmacht, often with wide autonomy of action.
• Only two institutions were not affected by the SS penetration: the army and the Ministry for Propaganda.
• More than any other organization in Hitler's Reich, it embodied, propagandized and implemented the illusion of the dominant race: The Aryan Race.
• The minimum acceptable number of children for an SS member was four.
• No member of the organization can marry without the permission of the Reichsfuhrer SS (but it's your business, eh Himmler? What a nosy bespectacled hamster)
• On September 30, 1946, the judges of the Nuremberg trial court condemned the SS, declaring it a criminal organization. The judges underlined this ruling by declaring that «the SS was used for purposes that were criminal, which included: the persecution and extermination of the Jews, brutality and executions in concentration camps, excesses in the administration of the occupied territories, the administration of the of slave labor and the mistreatment and murder of prisoners of war. The ruling went on to state that the suspicion of war crimes would involve all persons who had been officially accepted as members of the SS… who became or remained members of the organization knowing that it was being used to commit acts declared criminal by Article 6 of the London War Crimes Statute."
• A fundamental characteristic of the SS was the (mandatory) tattoo on the inside of the left arm which reported the blood type and the SS serial number
•Members of particular note:
Heinrich Himmler: Reichfuhrer SS
Reinhard Heydrich: Head of the SD
Theodor Eicke: the first commandant of Dachau
Rudolf Hoss: the first commandant of Auschwitz
Josef Mengele: The Angel Of Death or '' Doctor Auschwitz''
Adolf Eichmann: Director of the department in charge of deportations and other “Jewish issues”
Heinrich Muller: ''Gestapo Muller'' the head of the Gestapo
Ernst Kalternbrunner: Heydrich's successor
The Totenkopf (from the German, skull), made up of a grinning skull and crossed bones, was undoubtedly the symbolic emblem of the SS and the terror associated with it. Referring to the tradition of the military corps of the Kingdom of Prussia first, and of numerous Freikorps later, the SS also adopted the death's head as their characteristic decoration
Established by Himmler on 10 April 1934, the Totenkopfring der SS ("SS Skull Ring") was one of the most coveted decorations of the SS. It had the value of a very high recognition since it was an indication of the personal merits of the wearer, of his devotion to duty, of loyalty to Hitler and National Socialism.
Heinrich Himmler, famously passionate about occultism, adopted many of these runes as a symbolic reference for the SS divisions. The symbol with the double Ss, created by placing two Sig - Runen (ᛋ) side by side, was created by the German graphic designer Walter Heck in 1933. Other runes, the Armanen Futharkh, were created by Guido von List and some were taken directly from the ancient Futhark.
Above: SS- Runen on the SS Ring of Honor ( i will make a separate post on this topic with all the ruins and their meaning hehe)
SS: the black order of the reich by Enrico Cernigoi
Rudolf Hoss: Commandant at Auschwitz
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