    
Title: SS Members Attend lecture, Berlin, Germany, 1937 Description: Members of the SS attending a lecture on German history - the SS version - at the lecture hall at the History Museum; this elite SS military organization was not controlled by the German Army's high command, but by SS leader Heinrich Himmler, its members considered Hitler's personal bodyguards - Hitler called them his "iron youth" all SS members followed Himmler's strict racist codes based upon Aryan supremacy and the dedicated persecution of Jews and other minorities thought by the Nazis to be "inferior and unclean" the Waffen-SS units fought at fronts in all theaters of the war and being Nazi fanatics were used as shock troops, while other SS units served as police and guards at German concentration or death camps, religiously murdering millions of people; Location: Berlin, Germany Date: 1937 Category: World War II Keywords: anti-Semitism, bigotry, bigots, death camps, extermination camps, genocide, Germans, Germany, holocaust, Jewish murder victims, Nazis, racists, racism, Second World War, Schutzstaffel (SS), Third Reich, World War II, WWII Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1390 (1.67 MPixels) (1.16) Print Size: 10.2 x 11.8 cm; 4.0 x 4.6 inches File Size: 4.78 MB (5,009,786 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000011029 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
