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Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party established the Schutzstaffel as a small personal body
1925 Event

April 4

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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