SS, SD, SA

• Who were the SD?

  The Nazi intelligence service
• What did the SD do?

  They looked after security and could arrest, search or spy on amyone
• what were the sd responsible for?

  hitlers personal safety
• Who led the SD?

  Reinhard Heydrich
• what is the name for the SA?

  stormtroopers
• Who are the storm troopers?

  Hitler's private army
• what did the stormtroopers do?

  attacked political opponents in a way that couldn't be linked to the nazis
• Who were the SS?

  Hitler's personal body guards
• who led the ss?

  Heinrich Himmler
• Who led the Storm Troopers?

  Ernst Rohm
• what did the ss do during the war?

  set up and ran concentration camps
• when was the SS set up?

  1925
• Why were the SA a threat to Hitler?

  Violent thugs, had more members than the army, Rohm wanted to control both sa and the army
• When was the Night of the Long Knives?

  30th June 1934
• What happened on night of long knives

  400 leaders of the SA were arrested and killed including Rohm and schleicher
• Impact of night of the long knives

  Rivals dead, SS now controlled Hitlers security, established murder as element of Nazi regime