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Parent topics

• Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard ^[e]
  • WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps ^[e]
  • Waffen SS [r]: "Armed SS", principally SS elite combat units of divisional and corps strength, but also used for special duties in security and genocide; overall command of Oberstgruppenfuehrer Paul Hausser ^[e]

Subtopics

• Night of the Long Knives [r]: 30 June 1934 Nazi purge, personally led by Adolf Hitler of internal political opponents, primarily Ernst Roehm and the SA, but including various others, such as Gregor Strasser or Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, considered a risk or embarrassment to the new coalition with the Right ^[e]
  • Michael Lippert [r]: (1897-1969) SS Assistant to Theodor Eicke, assisting him in killing Ernst Roehm; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1936); severely wounded on Russian Front commanding SS-Volunteer Legion Flandern; first commander, as Standartenfuehrer of 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg ^[e]
  • Ernst Roehm [r]: (1887-1934) Career military officer; early Nazi and closest friend of Adolf Hitler, and the operational leader, in the 1930s, of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Troops"; “Brownshirts”, SA); revolutionary who emphasized socialism in National Socialism; purged and killed 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives ^[e]
• Inspector of Concentration Camps [r]: Amt (Office) "D" of the WVHA, with direct responsibility for the Nazi concentration camps, although some independent action was taken through the chain of command of RSHA personnel, primarily Gestapo, assigned to the camps ^[e]
• Totenkopf SS [r]: Detachments of the SS organized into concentration camp guards by Theodor Eicke ^[e]
  • Totenkopf Division [r]: Combat division organized from Totenkopf SS and commanded by Theodor Eicke; fought in the Battle of France under Erich Hoepner and on the Russian Front ^[e]