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actions were planned by the special units -ander their
command.. This appears to be sonfirmed by/«tatement of
Reinhard Hsydrich, Chief of Sicherheitspolizei and
Sicheraoitsdienstt made in 1936. Heydrlch explained
the relai ionship of the Allgemeine SS to the SD as
follov
l.e nen of the SD are. 3$ leaders and 33
men of the SS as a whole(Gesamt SS) who have
their coiiB.iandö alfcematingly within the pi)
and if 1 thin the Allgemeine SSg«..' 1
1^« Strtiri.^t3:..o The Allgemeine SS was 8
regular formation (Gliederung) of the Nagi Party, Its
numerical rise and decline was sensational.. After a
steep climb from roughly 250 l.n 1925 to 250,000 within
fifteen years-, it had sunk after five years of war to a
mere fraction of its greatest strength» This was due,
chiefly., (as noted above) to the transfer of S3 rr-.en to
the Armed Forces, the Police, said, later, as a result of
the inc ?easinc importance of the V/affen J5S, to the latter
as the fighting formation of Kimmler end the real power
behind the ascendancy of the SS leadership to a ruling
croup«
Siio Functions, The functions of the Allgelmsine
SS per jre those of a para-nilitary organization,
"ToXgrigHbr"Beobachter, 26 April 1936 (on file with
. rjggD—Y)opar'tTaen'b) „
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