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The Soviet Army suspected most SS men of having committed atrocities. If they could, SS men tried to get taken prisoner with ordinary regular German soldiers and remove the tattoo.
The great majority of German soldiers in World War 2 were members of the regular armed forces, not the SS. The SS (stands for Schutzstaffel) was a special elite army. See related question below.
The Hitler Youth was the soldiers in the SS who were not yet over the age of 18___They were a kind of Nazi party equivalent to the boy scouts. They were not 'soldiers in the SS'.
The SS, or Schutstaffel, WAS the special death squad.
SS was the abbreviation for Schutzstaffel which means protection squad. The SS started out as Hitler's body guards and evolved into a voluntary army that was separate from the regular Germany army called the Wehrmacht.