Awards of Germany - National Socialism "NSDAP, SA, SS

NSDAP

The National Socialist Workers' Party was founded on 5 January 1919 as a right-wing splinter party by Anton Drexler, a railway fitter and journalist named Karl Harrer, as the DAP (German Workers' Party) in Munich.
February 24, 1920 was renamed the NSDAP. Adolf Hitler joined the party on September 12, 1919. July 29, 1921 became party chairman.
Since 1920, the swastika became the symbol of the party, and the Völkische Beobachter became the party newspaper.
In 1922, the party was banned in some countries, including Prussia, due to SA terror and a radical program.
After Hitler's arrest, the party was recreated in 1925. The number of members of the NSDAP was about 27,000 people. The economic crisis led to an increase in membership to 150,000. In 1930, the NSDAP already had 400,000 members. By the elections in early 1933, the party had 1.5 million members. In the Third Reich - 8.5 million. Hitler's deputy since 1933 was Rudolf Hess, and since 1941 - Martin Bormann.

SA (assault squad)

The SA was a militant and security propaganda group formed in 1920 as part of the NSDAP. The leader was a former freikor officer Ernst Röhm. Membership grew rapidly. So, in 1924 there were about 30,000 of them, and by 1933 the number had already grown to 700,000 members. She acted as auxiliary police in the persecution of political opponents and Jews. In 1933, SA began establishing concentration camps.
SA increasingly developed its own life and increased its influence within the NSDAP. Hytler acknowledged the danger in this and used the so-called Ryom putsch to force the SS to kill the entire SA 30.06 leadership. to the 01.07.1934.
Separated from the SA, the SS has since assumed the SA's original role as a NSDAP security and propaganda group.

SS (Protection Squadron)

The SS was a paramilitary group that initially acted as a personal defense of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi figures. Founded in 1925, the SS became an elite unit with special tasks. Since 1929, under the SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler, she performed police functions in the NSDAP. The number of members was 1939 240.000.
The SS then took on tasks such as assassinating the SA leadership and then guarding and managing numerous concentration camps.
At the Nuremberg trials, the SS was called the main instrument of political terror and declared a criminal organization.

National Socialist Automobile Corps of the NSKK

Adolf Künlein, head of the SS automobile industry, founded the NSCC as a paramilitary militant association in 1931. After 1933 it became a central straightening device in the automotive sector. The goals were to increase motorization and attract motorists from KhYU and special training in motorsport schools of the NSKK. Those who do not have a driver's license or their own car can join it. Membership in the NSDAP was not required and was not a prerequisite for joining. The NSKK was organized on the principle of the Fuhrer with a similar arrangement of individual levels in motorized acceleration groups, groups, brigades, standards, squadrons and storms. The NSCC had its own uniform.
During World War II, NSCCs were used in the occupied territories as auxiliary police.


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