By Gordon Williamson, Stephen Andrew
Regardless of being disdained by means of the German Army’s expert officer corps, the army department of the Nazi SS defense business enterprise grew from an preliminary energy of just a handful of battalions on the outbreak of battle in 1939 to thousands of troops in dozens of divisions. The battlefield recognition of the superior armoured and mechanised divisions could develop into moment to none; lavishly outfitted and considered as completely trustworthy, they have been thrown into many determined battles on either Western and japanese fronts, usually attaining striking effects. Illustrated with infrequent photos, this primary of 4 Men-at-Arms titles info the supplier, uniforms and insignia of the Waffen-SS.
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1 Only Prussia and Bavaria had political police forces of importance. Besides Department lA of the Berlin Presidium of Police, itself ultimately under the authority of the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, there was in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior a Prussian Political Police. In April I 933 Goring as Prussian Minister of the Interior created the Preussisches Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt (Gestapa, Secret State Police Bureau) with offices located at 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse where Department lA had already been moved a few days earlier.
38 Whilst the new intelligence-gathering service contributed to greater overall security, there were ample reasons for vigilance in protecting the life of the Fuhrer more immediately. Hitler frequently got into dangerous situations, as during the Kapp putsch in I 920, when he had flown to Berlin to try to participate. ' As BEFORE I933 I9 Hitler carried two passes, one for the 'Whites' and one for the 'Reds,' he had only to show the appropriate one to get petrol for the rest of the journey (he was nevertheless late for this putsch).
Frau Stennes got in touch with Goring, who protected his former fellow-cadet against an SS assassination squad, and highly-placed friends-including the Papal Nuncio, the Archbishop of Cologne, and Stennes' father (who knew Ludendorfl)-interceded on his behal£ It was finally Goring, then Ministerpresident of Prussia, and his Chief of the Prussian Secret State Police, Diels, who got Stennes out of Germany to the Netherlands, whence the refugee travelled to England and on to China. He joined the staff of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and worked with the Chinese dictator's bodyguard and security service, also commanding his Headquarters Air Transport Detachment.