The SS were the corporate militia of I.G. Farben, "The Devil's Chemists" (took blame for losing WW1 because of taking 6 months too long to turn coal into gasoline, after turning air into gunpowder, Faber-Bosch Nitrogen Fixation Process; were looking for the man who became Hitler in 1923, to atone for losing WW1, started WW2 as a profit-making operation, started Auschwitz as a gasoline plant, only killing Jews as a sideline). When the Wehrmacht invaded Czechoslovakia in the Anschluss, the SS raced around them to the Skoda Werke chemical company, literally put a gun in the owner's mouth a pen...