Translation: Meine Ehre heiβt Treue

Introduction to the SS:

The SS (Schutzstaffel) is the German Schutz (guard, protection, personal guard) ) and the German Staffel (team, group, team), generally abbreviated as SS in English, is one of the establishments of the German Nazi Party used to perform security services, and stands side by side with the stormtroopers of the Nazi Party's armed combat execution force. Another Nazi party intelligence and surveillance, torture and execution organization.

It was originally a personal escort group set up by the Nazi Party for Hitler outside the SA. It was later affiliated with the SA and became independent from the SA in 1925. It was dedicated to protecting all high-ranking officials of the Nazi Party and counter-assassination intelligence. After 1929, it evolved into a security force that carried out investigations, "interrogations", security maintenance and "patrols" of the Nazi Party. The most important thing was to monitor the internal affairs of the Nazi Party and the SA. It was the military police of the Nazi Party itself. unit. Later, with the establishment of the National Security Agency through the SS National Leader Himmler as the German Interior Minister, which will be placed in the country's police intelligence, the SS has become Germany's de facto national public security unit and advanced to an intelligence " Surveillance "contained security organizations.

The team emblem uses two lightning bolts as the symbol of SS. In Norse mythology, one lightning bolt (its meaning represents the sun) symbolizes victory. Its lightning bolt logo was designed by Walter Heck in 1932.

The SS was a paramilitary department organized and trained with the approval of the German Wehrmacht called the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SSVT) and later reorganized into the Armed SS (Die Waffen Schutzstaffel, abbreviation) : Waffen-SS).

Except for a small number of Germans, most of the personnel who make up the SS are foreigners from Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Belarus, Norway, Bosnia, Hungary, France, Hungary, and the Netherlands. It consists of more than 30 European and Asian countries.