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Night Of Broken Glass Essay Topics

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Ben Kuhlmann
Ms Lane
English 10
05 May 2023
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Originally a small, security-based unit focused on protecting Hitler and other Nazi elite, the SS, or Schutzstaffel, later evolved into a powerful paramilitary organization with divisions intent on the planning, leadership, and execution of the events that instigated the Holocaust. Throughout the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler charged these so-called “Protection Squads” to not only be his security measures but also be the main tangible perpetrators of the removal and extermination of the Jews and other “racially inferior” groups. While the SS was neither the Weimar Republic’s nor Nazi Germany’s legitimate military, it was still a group to be both feared and respected by not only German-occupied Europeans …show more content…

The SS’s beginning of implementing the “Final Solution” came in 1934 when a special department was created in the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst-SD) to start “researching” the Jews. Shortly after this, they, along with other police forces, directed the Kristallnacht and focused it specifically towards the Jews. Although this “Night of Broken Glass” was only meant to encourage the Jews to quickly leave the German Reich, how the SS handled it impressed Hermann Goring and he then gave authorization to Reinhard Heydrich to start developing plans to “solve the Jewish Question.” From this moment, the SS essentially took over realizing, overseeing, and running the Holocaust. As World War II started, the SS was divided into two main branches: the Waffen-SS (Armed-SS) and Allgemine-SS (General-SS). While the Waffen-SS focused on fighting the Allies, the Allgemine-SS began to focus on bringing about the Holocaust and so, the SS began to house many more divisions and groups that each played a unique role in the Holocaust. The Reichssicherheitshauptamt department (RSHA; Reich Security Central Office) oversaw the police and investigative forces such as the SD, Kripo, and Gestapo that identified and took away the Jews. Other divisions, like the einsatzgruppen (mobile death squads), which traveled throughout Europe killing Jews on …show more content…

Their role was instrumental in the Holocaust not only in the planning and effectiveness but also as a whole. If not for the SS, the Holocaust’s outcome would not have been what it was, if even anything at all. With no SS, Nazi Germany would lack the organizational and numerical means to make the Holocaust possible considering there would be no guards to run the camps, no way to send prisoners to camps, no workers to build said camps, no police to round up said individuals, and no intelligence agency to find them in the first place. Without the SS, Hitler would just be a man with an idea of exterminating the Jews and have virtually no one to actually plan or carry it out. The SS’s blind loyalty, unwavering obedience, and eager willingness towards Hitler without giving a second thought about a human’s sanctity of life or respective rights made the atrocities of the Holocaust a

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