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The SS was responsible for the vast majority of war crimes perpetrated under the Nazi regime. In particular, it was the primary organization which carried out the Holocaust. As a part of its race-centric functions, the SS oversaw the isolation and displacement of Jews from the populations of the conquered territories, seizing their assets and transporting them to concentration camps and ghettos where they would be used as slave labor (pending extermination) or immediately killed.... Yeah you're probably right though.
Wrong, whilst the SS was Hitler's or rather the National Socialist Party's personal body guards, when the SS became an actual military fighting force, they were just like the Wehrmacht and had no connection to the work camps at all. Of course granted the security guards were former SS or Wehrmacht. The SS in the majority were pretty much just the elite Wehrmacht.
If we were talking about regular German soldiers i wouldn't have even commented. The SS were ran by Men who only answered to Hitler, rounded up political rivals, Jews, Gypsies, anyone who dodn't fit in, teachers, policemen. The SS were the footsoldiers of one of the most evil men to ever lived and would follow his every whim. but no history must be wrong. in regards to the picture it was probably staged.
pizzapastasaurous was speaking of the Waffen SS, the incredibly skilled, well-equipped combat unit who fought on the front lines of World War II, and not the SS thugs who roamed the streets of captured cities looking for political prisoners. Members of the Waffen SS had little to no contact with Hitler, and the majority of that contact were orders to attack. Soldiers of the Waffen SS had the same compassion for their fellow man as any other soldier would, far from the media-machines pounding hate into them every day.
The Waffen-SS was created as the armed wing of the Nazi Party's Schutzstaffel and gradually developed into a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of Nazi Germany.[3]
The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions during World War II, and served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it.[4] Adolf Hitler resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the armed wing of the Party and to become an elite police force once the war was won.[5] Prior to the war it was under the control of the SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht). (taken from wiki beceuse i can't be bothered arguing.)
The Waffen-SS grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions during World War II, and served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it.[4] Adolf Hitler resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the armed wing of the Party and to become an elite police force once the war was won.[5] Prior to the war it was under the control of the SS Führungshauptamt (SS operational command office) beneath Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Upon mobilization its tactical control was given to the High Command of the Armed Forces (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht). (taken from wiki beceuse i can't be bothered arguing.)
If you go back to my first reply to you, you'll see that you mistook the Waffen SS as the whole SS. I was merely clarifying that point for you. I hate the wretched Austrian-dominated SS thugs as much as anyone else, but the Waffen SS was a different breed under the same brand name.