1. Secret State Policy
1.1. Hunted down enemies of the Reich
1.2. Terror and control of German citizens
1.3. Prussian Secret Police
2. 1936
2.1. Under the administration
2.1.1. SS national leader
2.1.2. Heinrich Himmler Chief of German Police
3. 1933
3.1. Hitler (Chancellor)
3.1.1. Hermann Göring
3.1.1.1. Commander of the Luftwaffe
3.1.1.2. Hermann Göring as the Interior Minister of Prussia
3.1.2. The force was created
3.1.2.1. Combining the executive and the judicial branches
4. 1939
4.1. Was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt
4.1.1. (RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office")
4.1.2. Considered a sister organization
4.1.3. Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service").
5. Minister Responsible
5.1. 1933–1934
5.1.1. Hermann Göring
5.1.1.1. Minister President of Prussia
5.2. 1936–1943
5.2.1. Wilhelm Frick
5.2.1.1. (nominal authority), Interior Minister
5.3. 1936–1945
5.3.1. Heinrich Himmler
5.3.1.1. Reichsführer-SS, Chef der Deutschen Polizei, Interior Minister,
6. SS
6.1. Schutzstaffel
6.1.1. "Protection Squadron"
6.1.2. Paramilitary organization
6.1.2.1. Under Adolf Hitler
6.1.2.2. Under the National Socialist German Workers' Party
6.2. 1933
6.2.1. Ruthless State
6.2.2. Loyal to Adolf Hitler
6.3. Ideological Organisation
6.3.1. Responsible
6.3.1.1. Security and racial policy
6.3.1.2. Nazi concentration camp system
6.4. 1939
6.4.1. Nazi racial policy across occupied Europe
6.5. Extermination
6.5.1. Ernst Rohm
6.5.1.1. Commander of Storm Trooper
6.5.2. SA leadership
6.5.2.1. Private Army
6.6. Independent Organisation
6.6.1. Heinrich Himmler
6.7. Swore fealty to Hitler and the Reich
6.8. Two main constituent groups
6.8.1. Allgemeine SS (General SS)
6.8.1.1. Enforcing
6.8.1.1.1. General policing
6.8.2. Waffen-SS (Armed SS)
6.8.2.1. Combat units of troops within Nazi Germany's military