SS Founded: Hitler's Bodyguard Becomes a Terror Machine
Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party established the Schutzstaffel as a small personal bodyguard unit, initially numbering fewer than a dozen men. Under Heinrich Himmler's later command, the SS expanded into a vast paramilitary empire that ran concentration camps, fielded combat divisions, and executed the Holocaust.
April 4, 1925
101 years ago
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