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::::::By 1942, when the Holocaust ("Final Solution") was implemented as government policy, all able-bodied men were serving in either the Wehrmacht or SS. The SA by that time was just a bunch of old fat local party hacks.  
 
::::::By 1942, when the Holocaust ("Final Solution") was implemented as government policy, all able-bodied men were serving in either the Wehrmacht or SS. The SA by that time was just a bunch of old fat local party hacks.  
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::::::The SS was created in 1927 as Hitler's personal bodyguard, recruited from the SA with 100 members. When the Nazi Party assumed power in 1933, it was split off from the SA completely, had about 15,000 members, took over local the German police forces, and created the Gestapo. By 1945, it had about 1 million members from nearly 3 dozen nationalities.
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::::::The SS was created in 1927 as Hitler's personal bodyguard, recruited from the SA with 100 members. When the Nazi Party assumed power in 1933, it was split off from the SA completely, had about 15,000 members, took over local the German police forces, and created the Gestapo. By 1945, it had about 1 million members from nearly 2 dozen nationalities.
    
::::::Yes, the SA was primarily responsible for [[Kristallnacht]] in 1938, but that was at least three and half years before the Holocaust.
 
::::::Yes, the SA was primarily responsible for [[Kristallnacht]] in 1938, but that was at least three and half years before the Holocaust.
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