Gestapos Cruelty and Role Played in the Holocaust

The roles of the SS,SA and the Gestapo are going to be revealed . These positions are all played in the Holocaust from 1929 to 1945. There was a very high role of cruelty and death taking in all three positions. Each played a role as for taking either a Jew’s life or anyone else that was considered undesirable. There will be over a million deaths just of these three positions because of the role played for the Nazi Party in Germany between that period of time involving World War 2. I The first topic is the Schutzstaffel, which is the SS. The SS was founded in April of 1925 by Adolf Hitler. The SS was discovered as a group of personal bodyguards for Hitler. The small group of the SS went from being only 300 members in 1925, to about 50,000 in 1933, because of Heinrich Himmler. Heinrich Himmler commanded the SS in 1929, to 1945 when its disintegration occurred. Between about 1934 to 1936, the SS expanded their responsibilities and gained control of Germany’s police forces. Since the SS gained more responsibilities they divided into two sub-units called the Allgemeine SS (General SS) and the Waffen (Armed SS). Both of the subunits combined were about 250,000 member by 1939. One of the roles, or something they dealt with (general SS) was the local police, and with â€Å"racial matters†, and also with foreign espionage and counterintelligence. General SS’s main program was Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA, Reich Security Central Office in German). The RSHA was divided into four