Title: Waffen-SS recruits, Vienna, Austria, 1937 Description: Nazi physicians inspect naked recruits to the Waffen-SS, making sure none have been circumcised as a way of knowing they are not Jews; this elite 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: Vienna, Austria 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: Landscape Dimensions: 1800 x 1266 (2.28 MPixels) (1.42) Print Size: 15.2 x 10.7 cm; 6.0 x 4.2 inches File Size: 6.53 MB (6,846,754 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000011018 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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