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18 Cards in this Set
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Schutzstaffel
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SS, Protection squadron, provided security for Nazi party members.
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Black Order
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Nickname for the SS, who ran the concentration camps. Named so because of black uniforms, was a criminal organisation.
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Sicherheitsdienst - security force in 1931
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Security service, intelligence agency of the Nazi party, considered a sister organisation to the Gestapo
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Liebstandarte SS Adolf Hitler
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The first SS division, Adolf Hitler's personal guard.
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Heinrich Himmler
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Reich fuhrer of the Schultzstaffel, leading member of the Nazi party. Chief of German police/ Gestapo. Overseer of concentration camps and killing of 6 million Jews. Most directly responsible for the holocaust.
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"Blood and soil"
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An ideology that ties land and people together, namely Aryans and German land.
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SS Marriage order
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Order created by Himmler paired "superior" individuals together. Goal to purify Germans. New generation would make up SS, made up Aryan race, looked slavic.
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SS Branches
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Intelligence, military, police
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Totenkopf Sturmbanne - Death head units
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Organisation responsible for administering Nazi concentration camps. Camps function was genocide, facilitated "final solution".
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Waffen SS
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Armed wing (military) of the SS
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Ethos of the SS
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Devotion to Hitler
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Lebensraum
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Living space, eg. Poland, Austria, eastern Europe. Jews killed to make room for Germans.
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Waffen SS and Wehrmacht rivalry
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Wehrmacht was the German army, had the same job. Waffen SS saw themselves as superior.
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Economic base of the SS
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Exploited labour from concentration camps Formed their own businesses from human hair, fat, etc.
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Lebesborn program
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Fountain of life, creating a master race that would dominate Europe. Gave women financial incentives to have children.
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3 methods of Internal security
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Secret service, concentration camps, Police force.
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The Gestapo (German Staats Polizei - State secret Police)
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Relied on informers, secret police means people didn't know who they were. Anybody could be an informer, in reality had about 10,000 people.
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SS State
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Just the police SS under Himmler, self sufficient, ran their own businesses.
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