Adolf Hitler's Crime Against Humanity

Adolf Hitler was a cruel man that preached a message of hate and violence towards millions of Jews and his enemies. Even though Hitler hated his enemies he never killed them himself. He relied on ruthless organizations like the SS to carry out his vision of racial purity. The SS committed countless crimes against humanity for Hitler and Nazi Germany. Only die hard Hitler supporters, Aryans and cold-blooded killers were accepted into the SS. The SS was almost unavoidable as they were apart of the Nazi government, military and they oversaw every police unit wherever the Nazis invaded and in their homeland. The SS was a feared organization that used fear tactics and police brutality to carry out Hitler’s ideology. In 1925 the SS (Schutzstaffel) …show more content…
To join the SS any applicant had to meet Himmler’s very high expectations. Some of these expectations were you had to be unmarried, no criminal record, be five feet nine inches or taller and be able to prove you Aryan ancestry back to 1800. Every member had to be emotionless, ruthless and be willing to die for Hitler. The SS motto was “My honor is loyalty.” The SS established a reputation of being ruthless and cruel. The SS would willingly kill anyone Hitler deemed necessary. They were responsible for millions of deaths during World War 2 and many of the SS leaders were convicted or war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials. The SS completely obeyed Hitler and was willing to do anything for him and the …show more content…
Heinrich Himmler unified all the local German police units with the Gestapo in the Nazi capital of Berlin in 1934. Then on June 17, 1936 Adolf Hitler promoted Himmler to Chief of German Police and Reichsfuhrer SS. This promotion gave Himmler the authority to unify all of the detective forces in Nazi Germany with the Reich Criminal Police Office. Then Himmler centralized the Criminal Police and Gestapo with the Security Police Main Office. Then in 1939 after the invasion of Poland and after World War 2 began Himmler consolidated the SD and Security Police with the Reich Security Main Office. Between 1941 and 1942 this agency was given the duty of executing the Holocaust. The SS branch that over looked all of the police units and the Gestapo is the Allegeine-SS. Both the Allegeine-SS and especially the Gestapo overlooked espionage and any police duty with in Germany. All of these unifications would allow the SS to silence, detain or kill anyone who opposes Hitler or is not racially pure with much greater ease than