some members of the Nazi SS became eligible for their 25-year SS Long Service Awards well before their completion of 25 years of service?
due to standing among corpses in his coat and rubber gloves while holding a syringe, SS-OberscharführerJosef Klehr has been described as the ultimate caricature of the omnipotent Auschwitz doctor?
despite jointly murdering at least 1,000 inmates at Auschwitz, former SS-UnterscharführerOswald Kaduk earned the nickname "Papa Kaduk" among patients at the hospital he worked at after the war?
as the SS struggled to keep up sorting the valuables plundered from prisoners at Auschwitz, Karl Möckel stated that fifteen to twenty suitcases of them were sent to the WVHA quarterly?
Untersturmführer was the first commissioned officer rank of the German SS?
Question 2: To maintain the political power and security of the ________ (and later the nation), the SS established and ran the Sicherheitsdienst ("Security Service") or SD and took over the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo), the state secret police.
Question 6: These escapes are said to have been assisted by an organization known as ________, an acronym of the German phrase Organisation der ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen, which translates as the Organization of Former Members of the SS.
Question 8: The SS ________death squads, formed by his deputy, Heydrich, murdered many civilian non-combatants, mostly Jews, in the countries occupied by Germany during World War II.
Question 9: The Allgemeine-SS members were considered more or less reservists, and many Allgemeine-SS personnel served in other branches of the German military, the ________, departments of the RSHA or the Waffen-SS.
Question 10: The SS was formed in 1925 as a personal guard unit for Nazi leader ________, ("Die Schutz-Staffel der NSDAP" [Shield Squadron of the NSDAP]).