USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE HOLOCAUST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The SS were:
A
A name for members of the Nazi Party
B
The Hitler Youth
C
Hitler’s personal bodygaurds and agents of destruction
D
The German police force
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Rochus Misch, “Adolf Hitler’s devoted bodyguard for most of World War II and the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader’s final hours in his Berlin bunker, ” has died, The Associated Press reports. Misch was 96.

Detailed explanation-2: -The SS. The SS (Schutzstaffel, or Protection Squads) was originally established as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard unit. It would later become both the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler’s executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties, without regard for legal restraint.

Detailed explanation-3: -The last defenders in the area of the bunker complex were mainly made up of Frenchmen of the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne, others being Waffen-SS from the remnants of the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland, Latvian SS and Spanish SS units.

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