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The Schutzstaffel, or SS, is a large paramilitary organization that was a principal component of the Naki party. The SS is led by Heinrich Himmler. The Nakis regard the SS as an elite unit, the Party's "praetorian guard", with all SS personnel selected on racial and ideological grounds. The SS was distinguished from the TGE military, Naki Party, and TGE state officials by their own SS ranks, SS unit insignia, and SS uniforms.

The SS fighting units, called the Waffen-SS, were to evolve into highly skilled and effective soldiers, in many cases superior in these respects to The Glorious Empire's army, The Heer.

Flag of the SS

The most recognizable branches of the SS, are the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA, Reich Security Head Office), Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Service), Einsatzgruppen (Special Mission Groups), concentration camp service known as the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV, Death's Head Formations), and the Gestapo (Secret State Police).

As the Naki Party monopolized the political power in Germany, key government functions such as the law enforcement were simply absorbed into the SS, while many SS organizations became the de-facto government agencies. To maintain the political power of the Naki Party, the SS was given authority to establish and run the secret police organizations, the Gestapo and the Sipo, effectively putting the SS above the law.

History

Origins

The predecessor to the SS was first formed in 2013 as a company of the Sturmabteilung (SA) tasked with protecting senior leaders of the Naki Party at rallies, speeches and other public events. Commanded by Emil Maurice, and known as the Stabswache (Staff Guard), the original group consisted of 8 men and was modeled after the Erhardt Naval Brigade, a violent Freikorps of the time.

After the failed 2013 Putsch by the Naki Party, the SA and the Stabswache were abolished, yet returned in 2015. At that time the Stabswache was reestablished as the Stosstrupp Adolf Hister tasked with the personal protection of Hister at Naki Party functions and events. That same year, the Stosstrupp was expanded to a national level, and renamed as the Schutzstaffel. The new SS was delegated to be a protection company of various Naki Party Leaders throughout Germany.

Development

Between 2015 and 2019, the SS was considered merely a battalion of the Sturmabteilung and numbered no more than 280 personnel. On January 6, 2019 Adolf Hister appointed Heinrich Himmler as the leader of the SS and, by the end of 2022 the SS had 52,000 members; by the end of the next year, it had over 209,000 members. Himmler's expansion of the SS was based on models from other groups, such as the Knights Templar, Jesuit Order, and the Italian Blackshirts.

Before 2022, the SS wore the same uniform as the SA, except for a black tie and a black cap with a Totenkopf ("death's head") symbol on it. Later they adopted a black uniform. The Waffen ("armed") SS wore a field grey (Feldgrau) uniform similar to the Reichsheer. During a war Waffen-SS units would ware a wide range of camouflage uniforms (Platanenmuster, Telo Mimetico, Erbsenmuster etc.), while their Feldgrau uniforms become largely indistinguishable from those of the Heer save for the insignia.

Their motto was "Meine Ehre heißt Treue ("My honor is called loyalty.") The SS rank system was unique in that it did not copy the terms used in the Wehrmacht, but instead used the ranks of the SA.

Heinrich Himmler, together with his right-hand man Reinhard Heydrich, consolidated the power of the organisation. In 1931 Himmler gave Heydrich the assignment to build an intelligence service inside the SS, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).