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SS and Police Leader (German: SS- und Polizeiführer) was a title for senior Nazi officials that commanded large units of the SS during and prior to World War II. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The, officially National Socialist German Workers' Party, ( abbreviated NSDAP) was a Political party in Germany between 1919 and 1945 The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The office of SS and Police Leader was one of the most powerful postings in Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers

The first SS and Police Leaders were appointed in 1938 from the existing office of the Allgemeine-SS Oberabschnitt Führer (Senior District Leader). Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Allgemeine SS (German for "General SS" literally "Universal SS" was the biggest SS branch in terms of members The purpose of the SS and Police Leader was to be a direct command authority for every SS and police unit in a given geographical region with such authority answering only to Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler. Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 was a Nazi German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately By the start of World War II, the SS and Police Leaders were divided into three rank levels: SS and Police Leaders (SS- und Polizeiführer, SSPF), Higher SS and Police Leaders (Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer, HSSPF), and Supreme SS and Police Leaders (Höchste SS- und Polizeiführer, HöSSPF). The office of Higher SS and Police Leader (in German: Höhere SS und Polizeiführer) was the most commonly appointed. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages.

SS and Police Leaders directly commanded a headquarters staff with representatives from almost every branch of the SS. This typically included the Ordnungspolizei (regular police), Gestapo (secret police), Totenkopfverbände (Nazi concentration camps), SD (intelligence service), and certain units of the Waffen-SS (combat units). The Ordnungspolizei (Orpo was the name for the uniformed Regular German Police force in existence during the period of Nazi Germany, notably Police are agents or agencies usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimatized use of force The ( contraction of ge heime Sta ats' po' lizei: "Secret State Police" was the official Secret police of Nazi Germany Secret police (sometimes political police) are a Police agency which operates in Secrecy to maintain National security against internal SS-Totenkopfverbände ( SS-TV) was a German Nazi formation of concentration camps guards See also List of Nazi-German concentration camps, Extermination camp Prior to and during World War II, Nazi Germany under Hitler maintained The Sicherheitsdienst (SD Security Service was primarily the Intelligence service of the SS and the NSDAP. An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to the Information gathering (known in the context as " intelligence " The Waffen-SS ( German for "Armed SS" literally "Weapons SS" was the Combat arm of the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron" The ComBat was an Aluminium Cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979. In theory, an SS and Police Leader had authority to command and commandeer any SS unit available in a particular region; however, in practice SS units answered to their immediate chain of command and would only be requisitioned by the SS and Police Leader in the event of an emergency.

One of the more notorious functions of the SS and Police Leaders was to serve as the Commanding SS General for any Einsatzgruppen (mostly death squads) that were activated in the SS and Police Leader’s area. Einsatzgruppen ( German: "task forces" "intervention groups" were Paramilitary groups formed by Heinrich Himmler and A death squad is an armed Squad that kills civilians terrorists or guerillas Such duties typically involved ordering the deaths of tens of thousands of persons and, following the close of World War II, nearly every SS and Police Leader, who had served in Poland and the Soviet Union, was charged with war crimes. The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses the German invasion of Poland through to the end of World War II The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war" including but not limited to "murder the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied A large number of the SS and Police Leaders, who had been involved with such crimes, committed suicide before capture.

SS and Police Leaders were also the overseeing authority of the Jewish Ghettos in Poland and, as such, directly coordinated deportations to extermination camps with the administrative help of the RSHA. A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social legal or economic pressure Extermination camps were two types of facilities that Nazi Germany built during World War II for the systematic killing of millions of people in what has become The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Security Head Office was a subordinate organization of the SS. The SS and Police Leaders were also afforded direct command over Police Battalions and SD Regiments that were assigned to keep order in the ghettos. The classic image of SS troops, storming through a Jewish Ghetto murdering victims at random, can be attributed to troops under the command of the SS and Police Leaders.

The grand dream of Heinrich Himmler was to evolve the SS and Police Leader into an SS Lord of the Lebensraum which the SS would rule and control after Germany had won World War II. Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 was a Nazi German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS. ( German for " habitat " or literally "living space" served as a major motivation for Nazi Germany 's territorial aggression Himmler’s dream envisioned twenty eight SS States, spread throughout the East, each one of which would be ruled by an SS and Police Leader, militarily controlled by the Waffen-SS, and worked and lived on by SS warriors of the Allgemeine-SS. The Allgemeine SS (German for "General SS" literally "Universal SS" was the biggest SS branch in terms of members Whether or not Himmler’s vision was plausible, and if the more rational elements of the Nazi government would have permitted an SS nation in the east, remains one of the great “what-ifs” of history.

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