Himmler accepted Hitler and Nazi ideology, and saw the SS as a chivalric Teutonic order of new Germans.

Weale states that the SS ideology gave the men a doctrinal framework, and the mission command tactics allowed the junior officers leeway to act on their own initiative to obtain the desired results.

Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ).

Under Himmler, the SS selected its members according to the Nazi ideology.

Furthermore, the SS purge was extended to those viewed as threats to " race hygiene " or Nazi ideology — including the mentally or physically handicapped, homosexuals, and political dissidents.

In contrast to the Imperial military tradition, the nature of the SS was based on an ideology where commitment, effectiveness and political reliability, not class or education, would determine how far they succeeded in the organization.

He also adopted the SS ideology wholeheartedly, as can be seen from his resignation from the church in 1937.

The United States officials have declared the Baltic Waffen SS units not to be hostile to the Government of the United States and the units were " considered as separate and distinct in purpose, ideology, activities and qualification from the regular SS According to Andrew Mollo, a British authority on the SS: " the Estonian SS were very different from other SS units: Estonia had been occupied by the Red Army in 1940, the Estonians fought for the independence of their country and were brought under the SS umbrella against their will.

In line with the Führerprinzip (" leader principle ") of the Nazi Party's ideology, the word Führer was incorporated into all ranks except those for basic SS troopers.

He and other members of his party, notably neo-Nazi Bert Eriksson, wanted to render respect and flower the graves of the 38 Flemish SS collaborators who fought for Nazi Germany and embraced fascist Nazi ideology.

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov wrote in 2003 about Mommsen ’ s functionalist understanding of the Third Reich that :" In this reading, ideology is recognized and then dismissed as irrelevant ; the suffering of the victims is readily acknowledged and then omitted as having nothing to tell us about the mechanics of genocide ; and individual perpetrators from Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heyrdrich to the lowliest SS man are shoved out of the historical picture as contemptible, but ultimately unimportant pawns in the larger scheme of a “ polycratic state ” whose predilection for “ cumulative radicalization ” was a function of its structure rather the product of intentional planning or self-proclaimed will ”

Sum of squared errors, typically abbreviated SSE or SS < sub > e </ sub >, refers to the residual sum of squares ( the sum of squared residuals ) of a regression ; this is the sum of the squares of the deviations of the actual values from the predicted values, within the sample used for estimation.

He began his activity in the study of animation by making some short films: Zasadil dědek řepu ( Grandfather planted a beet, 1945 ); Zvířátka a Petrovští ( Animals and Bandits, 1946 ), awarded at the Cannes Film Festival just one year after he began working in films, Pérák a SS ( The Springer and the SS men, 1946 ), an anti-Nazi film, and Dárek ( The Gift, 1946 ), a satire on the values ​​ of middle class close in a style echoing surrealism.

A semi-fictional movie about his emotional search for Christian values and ultimate decision to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust through informing the Catholic Church, Amen., was released in 2002, starring Ulrich Tukur as Kurt Gerstein and directed by Costa-Gavras.

The SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV ) was the SS organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps for the Third Reich.

At this time, the Gestapo was condemned as a criminal organization with the SS.

The Schutzstaffel (, translated to Protection Squadron or defence corps, abbreviated SS — or Runic " ᛋᛋ " with stylized " Armanen " sig runes ) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ).

After 1945, the SS was banned in Germany, along with the Nazi Party, as a criminal organization.

These escapes are said to have been assisted by an organization known as ODESSA, an acronym of the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which translates as the Organization of Former Members of the SS.

In 1931, as the SS began to increase its membership to over 100, 000, the organization was again restructured beginning with the SS-Oberleitung, which was replaced by the SS-Amt, divided into five sections as follows:

Following Hitler's assumption of power in Germany, the SS became regarded as a state organization and a branch of the established government.

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By mid-1934, the SS had taken control of all concentration camps from the SA, and a new organization, the SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV ) had been established as the SS Concentration Camp Service.

The Auxiliary-SS ( SS mannschaft ) was an organization that arose in 1945 as a last-ditch effort to keep concentration camps running.

This rotation of personnel is the main argument that nearly the entire SS knew of the concentration camps, and what actions were committed within, making the entire organization liable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a " sister organization " with the Gestapo, which the SS had infiltrated heavily after 1934.

By 1933, the organization was known as the SS SD-Amt and, in 1934, became the official Party security organization of the NSDAP.

The organization of these administrative territories led to conflict between Rosenberg and the SS over the treatment of Slavs under German occupation.

In 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg formally judged the SA to be a criminal organization alongside the SS and the Nazi Party.

Learning that the German officer escorting him around the camp was a member of the Abwehr, Archer follows him back to London, where he discovers Mayhew conspiring with top Abwehr officials to free the King, an act that would humiliate the SS as the organization in charge of guarding him.

Esso claimed that the $$ resemble the SS of the Nazi paramilitary organization.

* ODESSA, an organization of former members of the Nazi SS ( Organisation Der Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen )

Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.

Books of homilies were compiled from the writings of SS.

The first concentration camps were under the direct command of SS – Polizei-führer Globocnik, and operated by SS Police battalions and Trawnikis — volunteers from Eastern Europe ; whereas the SS-Totenkopfverbände managed the Nazi Concentration Camps such as Dachau and Ravensbrück.

The initial, formal killings of the Final Solution were undertaken by the SS Einsatzgruppen ( Task Forces ) death squads who followed the Wehrmacht during the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the USSR in June 1941.

Himmler also gained authority over all of Germany's uniformed law enforcement agencies, which were amalgamated into the new Ordnungspolizei ( Orpo: Order Police ), which became an agency of the SS under Kurt Daluege.

These groups — the Nazi party and government leadership, the German General Staff and High Command ( OKW ); the Sturmabteilung ( SA ); the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), including the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ); and the Gestapo — had an aggregate membership exceeding two million, making a large number of their members liable to trial if the organisations were convicted.

SiPo members were encouraged to become members of the SS.

Personnel assigned to these auxiliary duties were often removed from the Gestapo chain of command and fell under the authority of branches of the SS.

The Gestapo maintained police detective ranks which were used for all officers, both those who were and who were not concurrently SS members.

Applicants were vetted for Nordic qualities — in Himmler's words, " like a nursery gardener trying to reproduce a good old strain which has been adulterated and debased ; we started from the principles of plant selection and then proceeded quite unashamedly to weed out the men whom we did not think we could use for the build-up of the SS.

SS men were carefully vetted for their racial background and were required to get racial certificates of any prospective spouses.

He also gained authority over all of Germany's uniformed law enforcement agencies, which were amalgamated into the new Ordnungspolizei ( Orpo: " order police "), which became a branch of the SS under Daluege.

The stylised lightning bolts of the SS insignia were based on the Armanen runes of Guido von List.

The stylised lightning bolt " SS " runes were derived from the Armanen runes of Guido von List, which he had loosely based on the indigenous runic alphabets of the Germanic peoples.

Himmler modified a variety of existing customs to emphasize the elitism and central role of the SS ; an SS naming ceremony was to replace baptism, marriage ceremonies were to be altered, a separate SS funeral ceremony was to be held in addition to Christian ceremonies, and SS-centric celebrations of the summer and winter solstice were instituted.

The couple were also foster parents to a boy named Gerhard von Ahe, son of an SS officer who had died before the war.