Army of Evil: A History of the SS (72 page)

Left
: Ulrich Graf, one of Hitler’s earliest bodyguards. (
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Right
: Ernst Röhm, revolutionary, military radical and SA Chief of Staff. (
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Left
: Kurt Daluege, Berlin sanitation engineer turned police chief. (
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Right
: Prince Josias zu Waldeck-Pyrmont, one of Himmler’s earliest aristocratic recruits. (
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Left
: Oswald Pohl, business and administrative chief of the SS. (
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Right
: Reinhard Heydrich, disgraced naval officer turned security chief. (
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)

March 1933, the Nazi terror begins. A Jewish lawyer is humiliated by SS auxiliary policemen on the streets of Munich. The placard reads:
Ich werde mich nie mehr bei der Polizei beschweren
(I will no longer burden the police). (
Bundesarchiv)

Spring 1933, a police officer swears in SS men as auxiliaries. (
Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz)

May 1933, detainees at work at the newly established Dachau concentration camp. (
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May 1933, SS guards roll-call at Dachau. (
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Himmler standing next to his ideological mentor, Richard Walter Darré, and the police president of Berlin, Graf Helldorf, January 1939. (
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1939, the chiefs of the SS security apparatus: (
left to right
) Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Himmler, Heydrich and Heinrich Müller. (
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Left
: Rudolf Diels, the Nazi fellow traveller who was first chief of the Gestapo. (
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