GESTAPO & S.S

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• Descriptions of organizations
• Job description within organizations
• Their differences
• Heinrich Himmler

S.S

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• Combat arm of the Schutzstafel
• Basically Hitler's body guards
• Started out as a humble protection unit
• Later grew into a HUGE division of 38 combat divisons
• Over 950,000 men

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• Combat training consisted primarily of several months
• Intensive training
• 3 objectives; Physical fitness, small arms proficiency, & political indoctrination
• 1/3 people failed to pass
• After selected; recruits would be sent to specialist schools, for more training

GESTAPO

GESTAPO

• Nazi Germany's feared police force
• During WW2; commanded by Heinrich Himmler
• had its own courts and effectively acted as judge, jury and frequently executioner.
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• Basically watched/hunted people,to make sure they werent a threat
• Threats: Jews, Communists, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals
• There greatest weapon was FEAR; was said they were everywhere
• Power of arrest, interrogation and incarceration.
• At the Nuremberg Trials, the Gestapo was declared a criminal organisation.

GESTAPOS JOB DESCRIPTIONS

• The Gestapo was designated as the fourth branch now headed by Heinrich
• The Gestapo followed Hittlers armies into every country during the conquest of Europe
• Gestapo was under the control of Heinrich Himmler who contolled all police units within Nazi Germany
• In 1942 the a Gestapo took things a step further via Hitlers Night and Fog decree.
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SS JOB DESCRIPTION

• The SS which stands for schutzstaffel formed on April 1995 as a section of the SA and a personal bodyguard
• On January 1929 Heinrich Himmler was appointed leader of the SS
• From 1932 the SS wore black shirts with a runic symbol SS on the collar to distinguish from the SA
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wHO WAS HEINRICH HIMMLER

• Born october in the 1900 and died in 1945
• He was the son of Pious
• Father was well read and intelligent
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HEINRICH GESTOPO/S.S

• Leader of Gestopo
• Commander of plitical police in 1934
• Head of all Hitlers body guards
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INERESTING FACTS

• First nazi to build a cocentrstion camp
• Had a thing for blue eyed , and blondes
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In our presentation we went over the description of organizations, job descriptions within organizations. How the two were different and Heinrich Himmler.
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