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To: BearWash

Isn’t the German term for Special Police, “S”chutz”S”taffen?


38 posted on 04/27/2007 9:43:24 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy
.Isn’t the German term for Special Police, “S”chutz”S”taffen?

SS stood for Schutzstaffel, which usually translates as "protective squad," which makes sense because they started at Hitler's bodyguards. "Gestapo" was a contraction of "Geheime Staatspolize"--Secret State Police. Then there were the Sonderkommando, which translates as "Special Squads"--they were the Jews in the camps forced to aid in the extermination (for a few weeks or months, before being killed themselves because they knew too much). Finally, there were the Einsatzgruppen, which translates to "task force" or "intervention group:. They were the ones travelling the countryside in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union killing "undesirables" without the formality of shipping them to death camps.

77 posted on 04/27/2007 10:16:10 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: massgopguy
Isn’t the German term for Special Police, “S”chutz”S”taffen?

In today's society it is more properly named "Sh!t Stuffin"

114 posted on 04/27/2007 11:44:37 AM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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