History 3427E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Bavarian State Police
22 Apr 2016
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Equating the term german with aryan and jew with non-german. Head of the ss takes it over in 1929 when it was only 200 men. He takes over the ss to gain power in the reich. 1930: 2000 members and at its height 200,000. Established in 1925 to combat the sa (brown shirts who were getting out of hand) Members of the formal lower aristocracy it offers a chance to raise in ranks quickly. Most of them were rejects from society in some way or another many couldn"t get into the police force. You would have to trace you ancestors back to the 1600"s. If you wanted to get married it had to be personally approved by. These ideals were latter relaxed because they needed the man power later into the war. He doesn"t acquire state power until he becomes the head of the. This wasn"t prestigious but it was a stepping stone.
