![Members of the SS (Schutzstaffel; originally Hitler's bodyguard, later the elite guard of the Nazi state) parade during a rally. [LCID: 86520]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/92a51bae-8871-445c-ace8-73f901d84814.jpg "Members of the SS (Schutzstaffel; originally Hitler's bodyguard, later the elite guard of the Nazi state) parade during a rally. [LCID: 86520]")
Members of the SS (Schutzstaffel; originally Hitler's bodyguard, later the elite guard of the Nazi state) parade during a rally. Germany, date uncertain.
Item View![Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, speaks to an inmate of the Dachau concentration camp during an official inspection. [LCID: 10719]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a05a39c1-e27c-4079-b0bb-7a804df94c03.jpg "Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, speaks to an inmate of the Dachau concentration camp during an official inspection. [LCID: 10719]")
Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, speaks to an inmate of the Dachau concentration camp during an official inspection. Dachau, Germany, May 8, 1936.
Item View![Police search a messenger employed by the Social Democratic newspaper Vorwaerts. [LCID: 45001]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/757683c9-b896-4816-8686-c15f9f70db65.jpg "Police search a messenger employed by the Social Democratic newspaper Vorwaerts. [LCID: 45001]")
Police search a messenger at the entrance to the building where Vorwaerts, a Social-Democratic Party newspaper, was published. The building was subsequently occupied during the suppression of the political left wing in Germany that was carried out in response to the Reichstag Fire. Berlin, Germany, March 3–4, 1933.
Item View![An early view of the Dachau concentration camp. Columns of prisoners are visible behind the barbed wire. [LCID: 63606]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/22454ca6-c397-4a81-be54-9a8d58fc65b4.jpg "An early view of the Dachau concentration camp. Columns of prisoners are visible behind the barbed wire. [LCID: 63606]")
An early view of the Dachau concentration camp. Columns of prisoners are visible behind the barbed wire. Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1933.
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