Schutzstaffel

The document is a governmental order by Heinrich Himmler, outlining the rules that must be followed in order for a Schutzstaffel or SS member to be granted permission to marry. It was published as SS order no.65 on December 31st 1931, to be implemented from the following day onwards. The Marriage Order was written by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS with help from the agriculturalist R. Walther Darré. The document was intended to be seen by all unmarried members or aspiring members of the SS,…

the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said: The Jewish people are being exterminated. Every party member will tell you, perfectly clear; it’s part of our plans.”1 Heinrich Himmler was the head of the Schutzstaffel and chief of Nazi police. He was an significant figure for the Nazi Party in Germany and was a symbolic character throughout the Holocaust, as he played a major role in the genocide of Jews. As Hitler’s…

If any good came from the Holocaust, it 's the lessons we can take away. It is easy to focus on the devastating aspects of something so cruel, but with an event such as this comes passion and remorse that can result in positive change and preventative action. Heinrich Himmler played a big role in this tragic event, and his actions perfectly illustrate these lessons. For one, it was made clearly evident that a group of few people can make a difference, negative or positive. Ultimately, all it…

Josef Mengele was an infamous Nazi and a German doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Although he was described as a very classy, polished, and attractive man on the outside, Josef Mengele received the nickname “Angel of Death” after conducting fatal and bizarre medical experiments which contributed in killing over 3,000 sets of twins. (Levine, 2016) Mengele often prescribed death to patients in an attempt to gather as much research and conduct as many experiments as…

The SS stands for Schutzstaffel or protective echelon. Hitler founded the SS to serve as his protection and personal bodyguards throughout the war. The SS soon expanded to the most powerful military groups in all of Germany. The first SS consisted of only eight people who Hitler…

What comes to mind when you think of the Holocaust? Is it the millions of Jewish lives taken, or Adolf Hitler? These are all things that often come to mind But what about all the people affected emotionally by the horrors they experienced? When we think about the Holocaust as the event that killed 6 million Jews, we should also remember the impact that it had on those that survived too. These people were often left as hollow shells of what they once were, with nobody to turn to. We see these…

In the beginning, the Lebensborn were SS nurseries. In order to create a "super-race," the SS transformed these nurseries in "meeting places" for "racially pure" German women who wanted to meet and make children with SS officers. SS stands for Schutzstaffel or Protection Squadrons. Between 1935 and 1945, there were born some 10,000 children in Germany and an estimated…

The SS men were some of the most ruthless people of Hitler’s army. They were highly trained and swore loyalty to Hitler above all. They started as something small but rose to destructive terror with the help of some key individuals. In this paper I will describe to you the rise, duties, and fall of the SS men. I will also tell you of some of the people that were linked to the involvement of the SS. The SS were not always known as the SS. Before they were known for their terror and brutality…

As a young child Hitler suffered from disorders , according to the reading, “A Psycho-Historical Analysis of Adolf Hitler: The Role of Personality, Psychopathology, and Development” , we have read in class tells us that Hitler had many aspects during his early life ,in other words his characteristics has influenced him in many ways. One of the ways it has influenced Hitler was the way he grew up under a parenting style defined as an authoritarian .On page 60 of Psycho-Historical Analysis of…

to enforce compliance with the Nazi regime. Unlike the death camps that focused on extermination, Dachau was a labor camp where the main goal was to punish political prisoners. Heinrich Himmler was an officer in the Nazi organization of the Schutzstaffel, commonly known as the SS. He announced the opening of Dachau on March 20, 1933, at a press conference. Dachau was located ten…