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Schutzstaffel

Nazi paramilitary organization (1925–45) with the Waffen-SS as a military branch; conducted the mass murder of the European Jews (holocaust)

11 dated entries naming Schutzstaffel, drawn from 9 separate years between 1925 CE and 1985 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as German SS in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1925November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany.source
  • 1932April 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.source
  • 1934June 30 – The Nazi Party SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the Schutzstaffel (SS).source
  • 1941July 2 – A German SS unit arrives in Vilnius, Lithuania, and begins the Ponary massacre, the systematic execution of up to 100,000 people over the next three years.source
  • 1941July 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."source
  • 194329 January – Dr Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds the late Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt controlling the Schutzstaffel Gestaposource
  • 1943July 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.source
  • 1946April 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.source
  • 196231 May – Adolf Eichmann (born 1906), German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, executed in prison at Ramla, Israelsource
  • 1981September 1 – Albert Speer, 76, German architect and Nazi Party politician, he served as the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production from 1942 until 1945, he briefly served as the Minister of Industry and Production of the Flensburg Government in May 1945,he was one of the defendants at the International Military Tribunal and was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in 1946,he revised his prison writings into two autobiographical books, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries, he later published a biographical work about Heinrich Himmler and Himmler's Schutzstaffel (SS) under the English title The Slave State: Heinrich Himmler's Masterplan for SS Supremacy, stroke while visiting London to participate in the BBC show Newsnightsource
  • 1985May 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.source

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