Research Pp,: Holocaust's Schutzstaffel (B-Grade)

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Honors English 9 (1) 30 March 2011 Schutzstaffel: the Bad, the Worse, and the Heinous Unambiguously the most terrible group of torturers to ever exist, the Schutzstaffel, more commonly known as the SS, were the leaders of the infamous Holocaust. The SS was an exceptionally methodical group, working rhythmically and brilliantly and nearly never failing to accomplish what they wanted to, when they wanted to. Hitler originally raised the organization as a group of elite personal bodyguards, and they remained as so until Heinrich Himmler was chosen as their leader by Hitler himself (USHMM: SS and the Camp System). The SS quickly evolved into the egregious coalition known to so many today. They orchestrated the majority of the Holocaust; the solution to the “Jewish question” as it was called by German forces (USHMM: SS and the Holocaust). The SS were known for their harsh, merciless brutality toward the prisoners in concentration camps and often abused them simply for their own personal enjoyment. The SS are covered extensively in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and other accounts of the Holocaust, and their acts can be divided into categories; including their rise to and fall from power, key figures in the establishment of the SS, and the treatment of prisoners at concentration camps. One category with major significance is the Nazis’ rise to and fall from power. The Nazis rose to governmental power through a long, thought-out series of actions that turned Hitler’s leadership into a dictatorship and started the Holocaust and World War II. The origin of the Nazi group was Hitler’s opinion that the German people and the entire world needed a solution to the so-called “Jewish question”; which he preached to young German men everywhere. His belief was that there was need for a pure and elite race, specifically the Aryan race, and he would go to extraordinary lengths in

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