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Parent topics
- National Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 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]
- SS state [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II [e]
Subtopics
- WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps [e]
- Nazi concentration camps [r]: The system of concentration and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, with a mixed chain of command but principally under the WVHA economic administration, under Oswald Pohl, of the SS; as part of Holocaust, they killed millions of Jews, but also Soviet prisoners of war and others seen as undersirable by the Nazis; they complemented killing activities in the field, such as Einsatzgruppen [e]
- RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD [e]
- Hannah Arendt [r]: (1906–1975) Political philosopher, political scientist, and commentator; a German ancestry to the U.S.; major academic works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, On Revolution and The Life of the Mind; well known for book Eichmann in Jerusalem containing the phrase "the banality of evil" [e]
- Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution [e]
- Reynhard Heydrich [r]: Add brief definition or description