The SS ran the concentration camps and extermination camps.
The SS carried out the Holocaust and the SS officers obviously played a key role in organizing it.
The SS in the holocaust were the meanest soldiers. they were basically trained to kill anyone that got out of line. which is sad. The SS was a Germany's security force that provided protection for the entire country, not just concentration camps.
The SS ran the death camps and was also responsible for an enormous number of massacres.
Three of the major oppressors in the Holocaust would be the Gestapo, the SS, and Hitler and his inner circle.
There was no budget for the Holocaust and the victims had to pay for their own sufferings and their death. In 1939-40 the SS became in part a vast business entreprise. The Holocaust was financed by slave labour hired out (under SS discipline) to private entreprise. About 2,000 (!) German corporations used SS slave labour ... In addition, the victims' assets and personal possessions were seized by the SS and stolen. In all, the SS made money from the Holocaust. According to the Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg, the Nazis made more from Jewish slave labour than from seized assets.
The SS ran the concentration camps and extermination camps and organized the holocaust.
The SS carried out the Holocaust and the SS officers obviously played a key role in organizing it.
They wore SS uniforms, of course.
The SS.
It stands for Schutzstaffel.
SS Officers and SS Death Squad officers
Heinrich Himmler.
the main role of the SS during the Holocaust was to run the concentration camps.
The SS in the holocaust were the meanest soldiers. they were basically trained to kill anyone that got out of line. which is sad. The SS was a Germany's security force that provided protection for the entire country, not just concentration camps.
The SS ran the death camps and was also responsible for an enormous number of massacres.
Three of the major oppressors in the Holocaust would be the Gestapo, the SS, and Hitler and his inner circle.
The camps were run by the SS.