storm up tyong short SA or storm division was the original paramilitary force of the Nazi party playing a crucial role in Hitler's Rise by protecting rallies disrupting opponents and engaging in Street battles with rival groups like The Communist Ro front kerun and R spanner Schwartz R gold of the social Democrats its members known as brown shirts were initially a rack tag mix of EX soldiers unemployed men and workingclass radicals the sa's origins traced back to World War I Stormtroopers who used infiltration tactics in small squats a method the Nazis co-opted for political street fighting after
Hitler took control of the Nazi party the sa grew into a massive Force eventually reaching 3 million members by 1933 its then leader Ann room had Grand Ambitions he wanted to absorb the German Army into the sa creating a revolutionary People's Army this alarmed both the military and Hitler's Inner Circle as it threatened Hitler's alliance with the r and challenged the authority of the Nazi leadership the sa also had ideological differences with the rising SS while the SS was made up of middle class men who embraced rigid discipline the sa was more radical and rebellious
with many of its members believing the Nazi Revolution was unfinished by 1934 room's Growing Power and the sa's unchecked influence became intolerable to Hitler pressured by himler guring and Gobles Hitler decided to act the secret State Police gestapo and security service provided intelligence that room was planning a coup and in June 1934 the night of the Long Knives saw room and over 100 sa leaders executed although the sa remained in existence until the fall of Nazi Germany it never regained its former dominance the sh Stuffle short SS or protection Squad started as a small security
unit for Nazi meetings but evolved into one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany originally just Hitler's personal Bodyguard the SS expanded under Heinrich himler into an Elite Force pushing Nazi ideology racial policies and brutal Terror tactics the SS was selective requiring proof of Aryan ancestry a commitment to the German nation and total loyalty to Hitler members were also expected to have more children than the average German family himla added esoteric rituals and pseudo religious ceremonies even replacing Christmas and Christian weddings with SS Pagan rights by World War II the SS had multiple branches
the general SS handled racial policy the vaff SS fought as an elite military force and the SS toen cop fand ran concentration and extermination camps as the chief enforcer of Nazi crimes including the Holocaust the SS was directly responsible for mass murder war crimes Mass surveillance and the oppressive control of occupied Europe the gapo short for gims poit was Nazi Germany secret police it was created by Herman guring in 1933 by merging Prussian police forces guring was the future commander of the Air Force and number two man in the Nazi party by 1934 himas SS
controlled both the security service SD and the gapo by 1936 him was named chief of German police and his Deputy Reinhard hyri took charge of the gestapu turning it into a national agency with unchecked power after the sa was taken out the gapu had full authority to investigate treason Espionage sabotage and opposition to the Nazi regime a 1936 law placed it above judicial oversight allowing it to imprison people under schutz protective custody detention without trial detainees were often forced to sign orders stating they had requested imprisonment the agency was instrumental in rounding up Jews ideological
dissidents and other targeted groups for deportation to concentration camps under the night and fog decree political prisoners in occupied Europe simply vanished but despite its fearsome reputation the Gestapo was relatively small and relied on German citizens to report each other making it extremely effective it played a major role in suppressing resistance movements carrying out Mass executions and enforcing Nazi racial policies after World War II the gapo was declared a criminal organization at the nurenberg trials and several of its top leaders were executed the einat meaning deployment groups or task forces were the Nazi regime's mobile
death squats responsible for mass shootings across German occupied Europe during World War II before the war the task forces had already been active securing government buildings and arresting police political opponents in Austria and Czechoslovakia they also participated in AIA the Nazis first mass murder program targeting the disabled operating under the SS and led by Reinhard hyri they played a key role in systematically taking out Jews Romani people Soviet political officers partisans and members of Poland's intelligencia including Catholic priests they worked hand inhand with the order police battalions and conducted massacres like Bobby Y and Rula
seeing tens of thousands murdered in just days the vermar provided the logistical support after the war 24 officers were tried for war crimes with 14 sentenced to death but many Ein group members escaped Justice the artaman league was a German agrarian ethnonationalist movement that believed Germany's salvation lay in abandoning City Life and returning to a racially pure rural existence founded in 1923 three it was part of the broader Leb Reform movement which dabbled in Health Fitness vegetarianism and naturism but took a hard turn into Nazi ideology the League's blood and soil philosophy painted Farmland as
the key to racial Purity and saw Eastern Europe as Prime real estate for German settlers preferably without the slaves already living there members worked on farms in Saxony and East Prussia doubling as an anti-slave militia while receiving lessons on racial Purity the superiority of the Nordic race and the alleged degeneracy of urban life and Jews as the political climate shifted many timans drifted into Nazism even Hinrich himler was a member and later brought its ideas into SS policies particularly the notion of the soldier peasant who would settle and defend newly conquered lands by 1934 the
artan league was absorbed into the Hitler Youth the Hitler Youth was the official Youth Organization of the Nazi Party founded in 1926 and expanding rapidly after the Nazis took power in 33 what started as an organization for boys aged 14 to 18 soon grew into a massive machine complete with a junior division for younger boys and a parallel girls group called bun deuta medal by 1936 it was the only legal Youth Organization in Germany and by 39 membership was mandatory whether parents liked it or not schools pressured students into joining and those who resisted were
ridiculed denied diplomas or blocked from jobs the program was structured like a military operation drilling Nazi ideology into young minds with a heavy dose of racial propaganda members were trained to see Jews and slaves as enemies and were encouraged to disrupt church activities and spy on religious groups during World War II arur axman transformed the Hitler Youth into an auxiliary force and by 1944 teenage soldiers were thrown into battle most notably at Normandy where over 20,000 young recruits fought the Allies as Germany's losses mounted the Nazis recruited younger and younger members drafting 12year olds for
the final desperate defense of Berlin when the war ended the Hitler Youth was officially disbanded as part of the nazification lebensborn meaning found of life was an SS initiated organization in Nazi Germany aimed at increasing the birth rate of children who met the regime's racial Purity standards established by Hinrich himla in 1935 it provided welfare to mostly unmarried mothers offered secret maternity homes to avoid social stigma and facilitated adoptions by racially approved families particularly those of ss members the program later expanded into occupied countries like Norway and many Li spawn facilities operated in confiscated Jewish
property Awards like the cross of honor of the German mother encouraged High birth rates among Aryan women during the nurenberg trials evidence revealed the largescale kidnapping and forced germanization of many ethnic polish children as part of the program the thul society started as a German nationalist study group but evolved into a secretive organization with deep ties to early Nazi ideology founded in 19177 by valta n house it was heavily influenced by occultism racial theories and the belief in an ancient Aryan Homeland called THU supposedly located near Greenland or Iceland members were obsessed with proving Aryan
superiority and were hostile to Jews and Communists the group became politically active plotting against socialist leaders in Bavaria and even attempting a failed coup in 1919 th members helped create the German Workers Party which later became the Nazi party when Adolf Hitler joined the society also purchased a newspaper that eventually became the official Nazi publication the fish many early Nazi leaders had ties to the thul society making it a key ideological stepping stone anen AB short for ancestral heritage research and teaching Society was founded by hinry Shimla in 1935 as an SS Affiliated Research Institute
aimed at proving Nazi racial theories himler was influenced by racial etnography grapher Hans fcar Gunter he claimed that Aryans had conquered much of Asia around 2000 BC and argued that Buddha was of Nordic Aryan descent the Anan Abba Scholars conducted archaeological anthropological and historical studies to establish the supposed superiority of the Aryan race including a 1938 expedition to Tibet to investigate whether Aryans had once ruled Asia they also planned missions to Bolivia Iran and Iceland but as World War II progressed their focus shifted to looting cultural artifacts in occupied territories later they mapped holy lay
lines some kind of energy highways to Sacred Germanic sites like the exter Steiner or vilborg Castle the Nazi government used an and ABA findings to justify policies including the Holocaust and claims of Aryan settlements in Eastern Europe to support territorial expansion post World War II theories even claimed the an research division pursued the mystical real energy for Supernatural powers or futuristic technology as the war ended members destroyed records to avoid persecution but their ideas have since influenced Neo-Nazi circles and pseudo archaeological myths the National Socialist women's league or NS frena was the official Nazi women's
organization formed in 1931 by merging various women's groups its main goal was to reinforce the Nazi ideal of of women as Homemakers and mothers promoting traditional gender roles women were encouraged to focus on Child Care household duties and supporting the party's agenda one of its biggest impacts came through mother training courses which reinforced Nazi parenting ideals the organization also established children's groups to free up mothers for wartime labor Beyond ideology the NS fra played a practical role in daily life promoting german-made Goods running classes for brides and school girls organizing War efforts like scrap collection
and food distribution and even allocating forced domestic labor from occupied territories to large families the German labor front was one of the largest Nazi organizations with the purpose to control workers while eliminating independent trade unions founded in 1933 it absorbed the assets of the unions after the stor up tyong violently shut them down with leaders arrested and funds seized collective bargaining was banned strikes were outlawed and labor trustees appointed by Hitler dictated contracts this was a huge win for employers as the regime needed Industries Corporation for rearmament unlike traditional unions the daf included employers and
professionals branding itself as an organization for all creative Germans of brain and fist workers couldn't negotiate wages or switch jobs freely but to keep them pacified the daf set up the strength through Joy progr program strength through Joy or craft was essentially a statun Leisure organization blending propaganda with Recreation to keep workers loyal to the Nazi regime founded in 1933 as part of the German labor front it organized everything from Factory sports events to discounted concerts art exhibitions and even luxury cruises the idea was to make middle class leisure activities accessible to the masses reinforcing
the Nazi vision of a People's Community while preventing anti-state Behavior by 1939 it had become the world's largest tourism operator though the outbreak of War saw most projects like the prora holiday Resort on the island of rugan cancelled the kdf also entertained troops even in concentration camps and was portrayed as just as essential as the vermar in Nazi propaganda the r Labor Service or rice arites de was a massive paramilitary organization designed to reduce unemployment militarize the workforce and indoctrinate young Germans with Nazi ideology in 1935 it became mandatory for men aged 18 to 25
lasting 6 months while women were only required to join After the War Began young men lived in camps working in agriculture infrastructure and settlement projects while framed as national service rad training emphasized discipline obedience and physical labor preparing men for military service when the war broke out female rad members were assigned to Agricultural and social work while men were sent to the front lines to build roads repair air strips and support the Army some units were trained for anti-aircraft duties and as the war progressed rad troops were increasingly thrown into direct combat especially on the
Eastern front by 1944 they were used as Battlefield reinforcements suffering heavy casualties especially in battles like on him
