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Parent topics

• Heinrich Himmler [r]: German Nazi leader, head of the Schutzstaffel (SS) party elite; committed suicide after being captured at the end of World War II ^[e]
• Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard ^[e]

Subtopics

• RSHA [r]: Nazi Germany's Reich Main Security Organization, a division of the SS, first headed by Reinhard Heydrich and then Ernst Kaltenbrunner; included the Gestapo and SD ^[e]

Subordinates

• RuSHA [r]: Main Race and Settlement Office (Rasse-und Siedlungshauptamt), part of the RSHA of the SS; responsible both for development of implementation policy for Nazi race and biological ideology and examining individuals to determine their Nazi racial classification; the focus of the RuSHA Case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, which also judged three related organizations ^[e]
• KRIPO [r]: General German term for criminal investigation police (Kriminalpolizei); part of the WWII RSHA of the SS, first commanded by Artur Nebe and then directly to RSHA chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner ^[e]
  • Artur Nebe [r]: German police officer before the Nazis, first sympathetic then part of the resistance; headed KRIPO and then an Einsatzgruppe; executed for anti-Nazi activities ^[e]
• Gestapo [r]: The secret political police force of Nazi Germany, a state rather than party organization, reporting both to the SS (Party) and Ministry of the Interior (State) ^[e]
  • Heinrich Müller [r]: Direct commander of the Nazi Gestapo; only major war criminal whose post-WWII status was never officially confirmed ^[e]
• Sicherheitsdienst [r]: The intelligence service of the Nazi SS, originally separated into foreign and domestic offices, part of the RSHA ^[e]
  • Walter Schellenberg [r]: (1910-1952) SS-Brigadefuehrer, who headed the SD throughout WWII, which absorbed all other national foreign intelligence organizations of Nazi Germany; testified against major war criminals at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); later received a six-year sentence; commuted before his death from liver disease ^[e]
  • Otto Ohlendorf [r]: SS-Gruppenfuehrer; head of domestic intelligence (Amt III) in the SD; Commanding Officer of Einsatzgruppe D; executed by verdict of the Einsatzgruppen Case (NMT) trial in the Nuremberg Military Tribunals ^[e]
• Einsatzgruppe [r]: Plural is Einsatzgruppen; Nazi mobile security, and then killing units, which accompanied Army units advancing into Austria, Poland and Russia; units on Russian Front carried out mass murder in Holocaust prior to the construction of extermination camps ^[e]
• Alfred Naujocks [r]: Add brief definition or description

Operations

• Covert action [r]: Any of a range of activities, intended to affect the behavior of a target nation or non-national actor, where the fact of the action is known, but the responsibility for the action cannot be proven. ^[e]
• Venlo Incident [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alfred Naujocks [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Gleiwitz [r]: Add brief definition or description

Final Solution

• Wannsee Conference [r]: Nazi meeting in January 1942 to plan the killing of 11 million Jews of Europe, now known as the Holocaust. ^[e]
• Adolf Eichmann [r]: A key leader in the planning and operation of the Holocaust, who escaped Germany but was subsequently apprehended by Israeli agents in Argentina, and tried and executed by an Israeli court ^[e]
• Nazi concentration camps [r]: The system of concentration and extermination camps of Nazi Germany, with a mixed chain of command but principally under the WVHA economic administration, under Oswald Pohl, of the SS; as part of Holocaust, they killed millions of Jews, but also Soviet prisoners of war and others seen as undersirable by the Nazis; they complemented killing activities in the field, such as Einsatzgruppen ^[e]
  • Extermination camp [r]: Totenlager A subset of six Nazi concentration camps in Holocaust, designed principally for killing ideological and racial undesirables as part of the Final Solution ^[e]

Other related topics

• WVHA [r]: The economic and administrative organization of Nazi Germany's SS, whose responsibilities included the actual operation of concentration camps ^[e]
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) ^[e]