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Also Known As Blackshirt • Schutzstaffel
Date April 1925 - 1945
Areas Of Involvement antisemitism • concentration camp • extermination camp
Related People Adolf Hitler • Adolf Eichmann • Heinrich Himmler • Reinhard Heydrich • Amon Göth • Karl Otto Koch • Josef Dietrich • Josef Mengele • Hermann Pister • Klaus Barbie • Ernst Kaltenbrunner • Otto Skorzeny • Paul Hausser • Rudolf Franz Höss • Josef Kramer

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