Ss Officer
Aide to erich von dem bach zelewski.
Ss officer. Waffen ss officer and son in law of ss oberstgruppenführer paul hausser 1938 arpad wigand. Ss and police leader ss und polizeiführer sspf in warsaw from 4 august 1941 until 23 april 1943. A trial of 40 ss officers and guards from auschwitz took place in kraków in november 1947.
Most were found guilty and 23 received the death penalty. Founded by adolf hitler in 1925 as a small personal bodyguard the ss grew with the success of the nazi movement and became virtually a state within a state. Security service was responsible for the roundup of jews throughout europe for deportation to extermination camps.
An ss officer receives the nazi salute from other party members on his wedding day credit. It ruthlessly eliminated opposition to the nazis within germany and its occupied territories and in partnership with the sicherheitsdienst sd. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.
Gestapo the political police of nazi germany. In addition to those tried by the western allies an estimated 37 000 members of the ss were tried and convicted in soviet courts. When the nazis seized power in january 1933 members of the ss numbered more than 52 000.
One photograph shows the nazi occupation of department store wolf. Ss abbreviation of schutzstaffel german. In 1981 wigand was found guilty in hamburg for war crimes and was sentenced to 12 5 years.
Sentences included hangings and long terms of hard labor. Protective echelon the black uniformed elite corps and self described political soldiers of the nazi party. The ss as ideological executive force.