Who were the SS, SA, SD and SA?
The Schutzstaffel (SS), or the Protective Echelon, were the elite corps of the Nazi Party. The SS were responsible for security, identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy, and intelligence collection and analysis. The SS controlled the German police forces and the concentration camp systems. The Sturmabteilung (SA), or the Assault Division, was the sister organisation of the SS and both were in hostile competition for control of police force in Germany. Both the SA and SS were controlled by Himmler, and served as police force for Nazi Germany. However, the SS were by far the most violent and forceful group in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, and eventually rose in the hierarchy of Nazi Germany. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD), or the Security Service, was a security department in charge of foreign and domestic intelligence and espionage. All these groups were staffed with men who perceived themselves as the “racial elite” of Nazi future.
The men in the SA, SS, and SD were either volunteers who wholeheartedly believed in the twisted utopian vision of Adolf HItler, or were forced to join their ranks because their life and their families life were on the line.
Who was Adolf Eichmann and was was the Final Solution?
Karl Adolf Eichmann was a former SS officer who headed the Gestapo …show more content…
Wiesenthal hoped for a tomorrow, which drove him to survive. He did not necessarily hope for a happy ending to his suffering, he merely hoped to see a tomorrow. Wiesenthal “still clung to the belief that the world one day would revenge itself on these brutes...the day would surely come when the Nazis would hang their heads as the Jews did now...” (35). He did not seek revenge, nor did he hate the Nazi’s and German’s who stood by while the Jews were killed, however he wanted to know why it all happened and have justice be
The Schutzstaffel (SS), or the Protective Echelon, were the elite corps of the Nazi Party. The SS were responsible for security, identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy, and intelligence collection and analysis. The SS controlled the German police forces and the concentration camp systems. The Sturmabteilung (SA), or the Assault Division, was the sister organisation of the SS and both were in hostile competition for control of police force in Germany. Both the SA and SS were controlled by Himmler, and served as police force for Nazi Germany. However, the SS were by far the most violent and forceful group in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, and eventually rose in the hierarchy of Nazi Germany. The Sicherheitsdienst (SD), or the Security Service, was a security department in charge of foreign and domestic intelligence and espionage. All these groups were staffed with men who perceived themselves as the “racial elite” of Nazi future.
The men in the SA, SS, and SD were either volunteers who wholeheartedly believed in the twisted utopian vision of Adolf HItler, or were forced to join their ranks because their life and their families life were on the line.
Who was Adolf Eichmann and was was the Final Solution?
Karl Adolf Eichmann was a former SS officer who headed the Gestapo …show more content…
Wiesenthal hoped for a tomorrow, which drove him to survive. He did not necessarily hope for a happy ending to his suffering, he merely hoped to see a tomorrow. Wiesenthal “still clung to the belief that the world one day would revenge itself on these brutes...the day would surely come when the Nazis would hang their heads as the Jews did now...” (35). He did not seek revenge, nor did he hate the Nazi’s and German’s who stood by while the Jews were killed, however he wanted to know why it all happened and have justice be