The SS (Schutzstaffeln), Security Services,
and Police

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Overview
Administrative Structure

Ten Years Security Police and SD Published in Die Deutsche Polizei, 1 February 1943

Organization and Obligations of the SS and the Police [a Lecture by] Heinrich Himmler

Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 23 January 1946

Walter Schellenberg joined the SD in 1934, served with the Gestapo in counter espionage until June 1941 when he joined AMT VI of the SD, then dealing with foreign intelligence, becoming its chief a year later. In 1944 this bureau covered all intelligence operations in Germany, as well as foreign and military intelligence. The affidavit provides information on the operations and structure of the SD, sections II and IV, the relations between the Einsatzgruppen and the Wehrmacht, section III,  and on negotations between the former president of Switzerland, Musy, and Himmler, late in 1944, on the bartering of monies and goods for Jews, section V, .

Concentration, Slave Labour and Extermination Camps

The Concentration Camps, Nuremberg Charges, Part I, Part II

Einsatzgruppen

Report by Einsatzgruppe A on Liquidation Activities Carried out in the Baltic States, 1942

The "Einsatzgruppen Case" (Trial of under Control Council Law 10)

Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945

Ohlendorf was a senior officer in the RSHA, an early Nazi Party member (1925) and, most importantly, the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which was one of four special purpose Action Groups charged with the extermination of Jews, Commissars, Partisans and other "undesirable" segments of the USSR populace.

Final Solutions

Affidavit of Dieter Wisliceny, 29 November 1945

Dieter Wisliceny was an SS "specialist on Jewish matters" for Slovakia, attached to AMT IV A4 of the RSHA, who worked closely with Adolf Eichmann. His expertise was also brought to bear on the Jewish communities of Hungary and Greece. His affidavit provides useful inside information on the policies implemented by the SS to achieve a "solution" to the "Jewish question."

The Geheime Staatspolizei (GESTAPO) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) Nuremberg Charges, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V,  Part VI

Glossary (Third Reich)

Ideological Statements

Policies

Letter from Office of Chief of Department D of WVHA, Concerning Handling of Prisoners Who Fall Under Night and Fog Decree, 7 June 1943

Personnel

Bioprofiles
Senior Einsatzgruppen Officers

RSHA

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Chief of the RSHA 1943-1945) Nuremberg Tribunal Charges, 1945

Speeches, etc.

Himmler's Address to Officers of the SS-Leibstandarte "Adolf Hitler" on the "Day of Metz" (Presentation of the Historical Nazi Flag)

Speech of the Reichsfuehrer-SS at the meeting of SS Major-Generals at Posen, October 4th, 1943

This is one of the most notorious and frequently quoted speeches of Himmler's in the academic literature, which includes the oft quoted:

"Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death [verrecken-to die-used of cattle] interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our Kultur; otherwise, it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interests me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished."

Speech of the Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich  Himmler at Kharkow April 1943

Political Way by Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945

Otto Ohlendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, expounds his views on Fascism and National Socialism:

"These principles advocated, as the foremost goal of National Socialism, to develop the best characteristics of the people and to form them into a community of equality and to furnish the best possible spiritual and moral existence for the individuals of the people."

War Crimes

Trial of Albert Kesserling. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1949

Trial of General Von Mackensen and General Maelzer. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Other Relevant Pages

Crimes, Trials and Laws
War Crimes and Criminals
Country Occupation Policies (USSR, Poland)
Holocaust Index Page