What's the difference between the SS and the Wehrmacht?

Answer 1

The SS (schutz staffel) was composed of the General SS (not sure of the German spelling) and the Waffen SS (armed SS). They were originally an elite bodyguard for you know who. Eventually when their services were needed, they were used as regular soldiers along side the Wehrmacht. The Wehrmacht were the regular German army.

Answer 2

The German Army, or the Wehrmacht, were the regular army of Germany - its national army, which had always been there. If you consider that all Germans were Nazis in Germany under the Nazi regime, then yes they were Nazis. And when entering the army, soldiers swore an oath of allegiance personally to Hitler. The SS were more like Hitlers personal army - it was originally the SA or Brownshirts, but soon after Hitler came to power it changed to the SS. The SS were much more elite than the SA and the Wehrmacht, comprising mostly of young strong men with a strong Aryan bloodline, and usually blond hair and bue eyes. As the elite, they were also encouraged to have many children, even with mistresses, by being given promotions and the like. They ran the concentration camps, but some SS units did also fight with the regular army.

Answer 3

The SS was a branch of the Nazi Party and was not part of the Wehrmacht or the German armed forces which consisted of:
Heer (Army)
Kriegsmarine (Navy)
Luftwaffe (Air Force)
These organizations were placed under the command of the Ober Kommando der Wehrmacht "OKW" (High command of the Wehrmacht.)
The SS did field an army known as the Waffen-SS but was not an official branch of the Wehrmacht but at the front came under it's tactical command.

Answer 4

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What's the difference between the SS and the Wehrmacht?

Answer 5

Wehrmacht is the German army. The SS was Hitler's personal guards.

Answer 6

Wehrmacht was the standard army of Nazi Germany. The main Infantry.

The SS were the elite soldiers. Fanatical, dedicated. They started out as body guards for Adolph Hitler, and eventually grew to be a very large force. They also handled the concentration camps.

Answer 7

Schutzstaffel founded circa 1924-1925 after the Beer Hall Putsch at the Buergerbraeukellar in Munich, Germany. After the SA purge known as Nacht der Lange Messer (The Night of the Long Knives where the entire SA leadership was murdered, forced into exile, or forced to swear undying loyalty to Hitler.

The first SS unit consisted of 8-12 men called the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler's Bodygyuard)

Schutzstaffel organized into several branches

Waffen SS (Armed SS)-
Most often armored or mechanized infantry units. Often referred to as the Totenkopf Divisionen (Death's Head Divisions)

Totenkopfverbaende (Deaths Head detachments)- Guards at Concentration camps (Konzentrationenslagern)

Gestapo, Geheimestaatspolizei (Secret State Police)- Started by Hermann Goering in Prussia after Hitler named him the Police Commissioner, Regent of Prussia, and given full authority and control of Prussia. The Gestapo was the focus of a battle between Goering and Himmler of the SS as both vied for control of it in their quest to become the Police Commisioner of all Reich Police Forces

Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service)- One of several groups in charge of information control, intelligence and counterintelligence
in Nazi Germany

Algemeine SS

Bureaucrats
Gauleiters, Kreisleiters, Strassenleiters, etc.

Answer 8

SS was their secret police. The Gestapo. Wehrmacht was their war machine the Army.

Answer 9

Wehr were standard infantry dudes and the SS were Hitlers bodyguard that grew into a fighting force of their own.very fanatical.

Answer 10

the ss were military unites of the nazi party and the other is the german national army that existed before and after the nazi peroid