Showcasing the Third Reich: The Nuremberg Rallies by Rawson Andrew

Showcasing the Third Reich: The Nuremberg Rallies by Rawson Andrew

Author:Rawson, Andrew [Rawson, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-28T16:00:00+00:00


Admiral Raeder, General Blomberg and General Fritsch enjoy the manoeuvres.

Generalfeldmarshall Hermann Göring (1893–1946) represented the German Air Force and the Luftwaffe made its first appearance at the rallies in 1935. Although the German Navy could not take part in the rallies, their Chief of the Naval High Command, Generaladmiral Erich Raeder (1876–1960) attended.

THE PROTECTION ECHELON, THE SCHUTZSTAFFEL (SS)

The SS began life in 1925 as an eight-man bodyguard chosen by Julius Schreck to protect Hitler after he was released from Landsberg prison. By September, additional bodyguard details had been formed at each district NSDAP headquarters to protect local leaders. Erhard Heiden was appointed Reichsführer-SS in 1927 but membership declined and the 280-strong organisation was taken over by his deputy, Heinrich Himmler, in January 1929. Membership increased rapidly over the next four years and the organisation was divided into brigades and regiments.

The SS numbered nearly 50,000 when Hitler was made Chancellor in January 1933 and SS units acted as auxiliary police units, rounding up enemies of the State following the Reichstag fire in February. The Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler was soon organised under Joseph Dietrich as the core of the Armed Troops-SS (Verfügungstruppe-SS) separating it from the General SS (the Allgemeine-SS), the business side of Himmler’s empire.

A new concentration camp at Dachau, near Munich, became a model camp and the SS soon took control of all the concentration camps across Germany. At the end of June 1934 the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler rounded up opponents of the Nazi regime (and many leaders of the SA) during the Night of the Long Knives, executing many of their victims. A month later the SS was formally separated from the SA.

By 1939 the SS had grown into a huge organisation encompassing the State police, the Party police, armed units, a network of concentration camps and a large business empire employing camp labour. A large part of this slave labour was employed quarrying stone for the Nuremberg Rally Grounds.



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