{"slug": "schutzstaffel", "label": "Schutzstaffel", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44687", "qid": "Q44687", "description": "Nazi paramilitary organization (1925–45) with the Waffen-SS as a military branch; conducted the mass murder of the European Jews (holocaust)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1925, 1985], "span_label": ["1925 CE", "1985 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "adolf-hitler", "label": "Adolf Hitler", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "nazism", "label": "Nazism", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "the-holocaust", "label": "The Holocaust", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ronald-reagan", "label": "Ronald Reagan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367485783#November", "title": "1925", "revid": 1367485783, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1932, "year_label": "1932 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning bans the SA and the SS as threats to public order, arguing that they are chiefly responsible for the wave of political violence afflicting Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370718676#April", "title": "1932", "revid": 1370718676, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1934, "year_label": "1934 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 30", "text": "June 30 – The Nazi Party SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the Schutzstaffel (SS).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372993239#May–June", "title": "1934", "revid": 1372993239, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – WWII: The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S.S. General Reinhard Heydrich to \"submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#July", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – Krasowo-Częstki massacre: The village of Krasowo-Częstki in Nazi-occupied Poland is completely burned and 257 of its inhabitants, mostly women and children, murdered by the Ordnungspolizei and SS in retaliation for German deaths in a skirmish with Polish partisans nearby.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#July", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, former head of the Nazi SS, commits suicide in British custody.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#May", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1946, "year_label": "1946 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 14", "text": "April 14 – Sh'erit ha-Pletah members of Nakam, the \"Jewish Avengers\", use arsenic to poison bread baked for SS prisoners of war held at Stalag XIII-D by the Americans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372058859#April", "title": "1946", "revid": 1372058859, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1985, "year_label": "1985 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 5", "text": "May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369963057#May", "title": "1985", "revid": 1369963057, "section": "Events › May"}}]}