This division contained the Death's Head Batallions, smaller Einsatzgruppen, and the army-like Waffen.
This group's honorary rank of Group Leader was given to lawyer Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and former members of this group used escape routes called "ratlines" to avoid prosecution after joining the ODESSA Network. Founded with Josef Dietrich as head of a thirty-man personal bodyguard, this division massacred 84 prisoners of war at Malmedy and many civilians at (*) Babi Yar. This division contained the Death's Head Batallions, smaller Einsatzgruppen, and the army-like Waffen. Led after 1929 by Heinrich Himmler, for 10 points, name this black-uniformed Nazi paramilitary division that grew out of the SA, symbolized by two lightning bolts evoking its acronym and not to be confused with the Gestapo.
This group's honorary rank of Group Leader was given to lawyer Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and former members of this group used escape routes called "ratlines" to avoid prosecution after joining the ODESSA Network.
{Schutzstaffel} [or {SS}; accept {Protection Squadron}; prompt on {Nazi Party} or {Nazis} or {Nazi Army} until “{Josef}” is read but not {thereafter}]