Schutzstaffel
Nazi paramilitary organization (1925–45) with the Waffen-SS as a military branch; conducted the mass murder of the European Jews (holocaust)
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Summary
Schutzstaffel is a paramilitary organization[1]. Schutzstaffel ranks in the top 0.57% of paramilitary organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (53,161 views/month, #1 of 176).[2]
Key Facts
- Field of work: political repression[3], genocide[4], war[5], oppression[6], counter-insurgency[7]
- Country: Weimar Republic[8], Nazi Germany[9]
- Instance of: squadron[10], military organization[11]
- Headquarters location: Berlin[12], Munich[13]
- Subclass of: Nazi Party[14]
- Child organization or unit: Allgemeine SS[15], SS-Totenkopfverbände[16], Sicherheitspolizei[17], SD-Hauptamt[18], Ordnungspolizei[19], SS-Verfügungstruppe[20], Waffen-SS[21], SS-Ärztliche Akademie[22]
- Commons category: SS (Nazi Germany)[23]
- Chairperson: Reichsführer-SS[24]
- Has part(s): SS-Hauptamt[25]
- Inception: April 4, 1925[26]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: May 8, 1945[27], October 10, 1945[28]
- Participated in conflict: World War II[29]
- Parent organization or unit: Nazi Party[30]
- Topic's main category: Category:Nazi SS[31]
- Director / manager: Julius Schreck[32], Joseph Berchtold[33], Erhard Heiden[34], Heinrich Himmler[35], Karl Hanke[36]
- Political ideology: Nazism[37]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[38], The SS state: The system of German concentration camps[39]
- Replaces: Bayerischer Heimatschutz (Wehrverband)[40], Stoßtrupp Adolf Hitler[41]
- Motto text: Meine Ehre heißt Treue[42]
- Motto: Meine Ehre heißt Treue[43]
- Native label: SS[44]
- Subject named as: SS[45]
- Owner of: Ostindustrie[46]
- Different from: Sturmabteilung[47]
- Member count: 800,000[48]
Why It Matters
Schutzstaffel has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] Schutzstaffel is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]
Works attributed to Schutzstaffel include The Black Book[51], a Wikimedia information list[52], founded in 1940[53], written by Walter Schellenberg[54].