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The SS started as Hitler's elite bodyguard and developed into a huge organisation feared throughout Nazi Europe. The division known as Death's Head Brigade or Totenkopf in German had the responsibility of running of the concentration camps and ultimately the death camps. They were the powerful arm that the Nazis used to run all their programmes of atrocity. The name is derived from 'Schutzstaffel' in German, which means defence unit. The SS were also known as the Blackshirts.

P

Pacifism
Palestine
Pappen, Franz von
Partisans
Plebiscite
Pogrom
Propaganda
Proportional
representation
Putsch

R

Race
Racial Hygiene
Racism
Rathenau, Walter
Referendum
Refugee
Reich
Reichsführer SS

Reichstag
Reparations
Resistance
Rhineland
Rohm, Ernst
Rome-Berlin Axis
Roosevelt, President

S

SA
Saar
Sachsenhausen
SD
Segregation
Selection
Schirach, Baldur von Schushnigg, Kurt von Shoah
SIPO
Sobibor
Social Darwinism
Socialism

Sonderbehandlung Sonderkommando
SPD
SS
Sterilisation Stereotype
Swastika
Synagogue

T

Third Reich Totalitarian
Transit camp