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Schutz⋅staf⋅fel
[shoo
ts-shtah-fuhl] 
–noun German.
| an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS |
Origin:
lit., defense echelon
lit., defense echelon
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Schutzstaffel
"internal security force of Nazi Germany," 1930, from Ger., lit. "defense squadron." Better known by its initials, S.S.
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| schutzstaffel | |
noun | |
| special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps |
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