Founded:

1933

Dissolved:

1945

The SS, a major paramilitary organization of the NSDAP, was considered a state organization and a branch of the government after 1933.

Mentioned in

• Antisemitism and Persecution (Werner Bergmann)
• Around the Alster, Around the World – the Wolf Brothers in Exile in Shanghai (Xin Tong)
• Hannah Arendt, Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Field Reports, 1948–1951, Field Report No. 18, February 15 – March 10, 1950
• Haute Couture from Israel. Designer Galia Lahav and Hamburg’s Past as a Place for Jewish Fashion Houses (Julie Grimmeisen)
• Interview with Ruth Dräger, née Geistlich, conducted by Linde Apel, on September 13, 2007 [in excerpts].
• Letter by Karl Bodenschatz, Chief of the Ministeramt Reichsmarschall des Großdeutschen Reiches, Berlin, October 17, 1944
• Martha Glass. “Every day in Theresin is a gift” (Barbara Müller-Wesemann)
• Martha Glass: Theresienstadt Diaries 1943-1945
• Persecution and Marginalization of So-Called “Mixed-bloods”. The Case of Friedrich Wilhelm Lübbert (Beate-Christine Fiedler)
• The Aftermath of Exile. Children’s Book Author Grete Berges Returns to Hamburg (Jasmin Centner)
• The Memoirs of Cantor Joseph Cysner. A rare testimonial of the Polenaktion (Bonnie M. Harris)
• The Number of Jews in Hamburg on April 30, 1945 (Jörg Berkemann)
• “This cannot end well.” Käthe Starke-Goldschmidt's Memories of Theresienstadt (Linde Apel)