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Its total membership in 193'? ~as 4-0,COD, organized in regi-laa ailitaryunit«
When wer cime S3 Verfugmigatrxrogn, including %ri$$kpy,\e_~tjjndsp
participated in the cevipaign in Poland, In the «inter cf 193 2/1 MO those
r^giaisnts which had seen military e.c';i:>r were expanded lato l »igices and thea
into regular divisions, the first of wiich became the SS Totc-ftopj Diyis.ion
(later called tie SS Panzer Divis ion "Cotenxo^f' 1 )» It was th« that the
military formations of the SS acquired a designation of their cwi, namely,
Bewaffnete SS (laterally, Anted SS) aid finally %:t&*~ä§. (Cantoat SS). This
was the begimüxg of a cumulative effort on the part of the K^S ifjPjbrung^SjS
to Increase the volume of its combat uiits. Gradually* as thj w-ir went on
exd nore and moxe neighboring county. «5 came into the Germar SB stan­
dards were relaxed to permit the recruitment of Volksdeutsche (ricial Germans),
into the nuiJce of the y^&eji^S.. ^ hfl feffen-SS th*n e-ae?ged u ihe protago­
nist of tho 'Nordic" peoples, in ord