Hitler's SS: Private Army

Of the Third Reich

-The blackshirted SS (Defense Detachment) of Heinrich Himmler, fulfilled certain things for Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party until 1932, the year before Hitler BECOMING A Chancellor.

-THE NAZI STREET THUGS WHO HAD ALREADY HARMED THE GERMANS IN MANY WAYS, OPPOSED THE NAZIS.

-SUBSEQUENTLY, HITLER CHOSE THE SS ARMY TO MURDER HUNDREDS OF HIS PRESUMED OPPONENTS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE SA—INCLUDING  THE CHANCELLOR WHO PRECEDED HIM.

-KURT VON SCHLEICHER—ON JUNE 30, 1934, THE "NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES."

Hitler’s Army:SA

-IN 1921 ADOLF HITLER FORMED HIS OWN PRIVATE ARMY CALLED STURM ABTEILUNG (STORM SECTION). THE SA (ALSO KNOWN AS STORMTROOPERS OR BROWNSHIRTS) WERE ORDERED TO DISRUPT THE MEETINGS OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS AND TO SAVE HITLER FROM REVENGE ATTACKS.


-THE SA WORE GREY JACKETS, BROWN SHIRTS (KHAKI SHIRTS ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR SOLDIERS IN AFRICA.

How did the use of fear helped Nazi become more powerful in Germany?

-The Night of the Long Knives, in June 1934, saw the wiping out of the SA's leadership and others who had MADE Hitler ANGRY in the recent past in Nazi Germany.


-After this date, the SS lead by Heinrich Himmler was to become far more powerful in Nazi Germany.


-For all the power the Enabling Act gave Hitler, he still felt threatened by some in the Nazi Party. He was also worried that the regular army had not given an oath of allegiance. 

-By June 1934, the regular army hierarchy also saw the SA as a threat to their authority. Röhm had openly spoken about taking over the regular army by absorbing it into the SA which alarmed the army's leaders.


-By the summer of 1934, Hitler had decided that Röhm was a 'threat' and he made a pact with the army. Röhm was removed and the SA men came under the control of the army and needed to be loyal to Hitler.


-The first the public officially knew about the event was on July 13th 1934, when Hitler told the Reichstag that met in the Kroll Opera House, Berlin, that for the duration of the arrests that he and he alone was the judge in Germany and that the SS carried out his orders. From that time on the SS became a feared force in Nazi Germany lead by Heinrich Himmler. The efficiency with which the SS had carried out its orders greatly impressed Hitler and Himmler was to acquire huge power within Nazi Germany.

Informations taken from these websites:

-http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3313nazi_private_army.html
-http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/night_of_the_long_knives.htm

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