... act as his elite bodyguard in 1925. Its leader Heinrich Himmler transformed it into a powerful army in 1929. By 1933 the SS numbered 52,000. The SD, a violent security service, was formed in 1931 and commanded by Reinhard Heydrich. It was the intelligence arm of the SS with the job of maintaining the security of the Führer, party leadership, Nazi party and Reich. They had the power to arrest, put people on detention and execute. Although Hitler gained tremendous popularity, he also developed an extensive system of concentration camp where the entire dissident were redacted, and taught lessons in compliance. During the Nazi years about 5,000 Germans passed through the concentration camps, but at the same time about 14 million Germans joined the Nazi party and other Nazi organisations. Hitler's popularity on the home front was the foundation of his regime, the Germans followed their adored Führer on the path of ...

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