The SS and Gestapo

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1. Who set up the "Geheime Staatspolizei" (Gestapo)? Heinrich Himmler Hermann Goering Adolf Hitler Reinhard Heydrich

2. Who formed the "Schutzstaffel" (SS)? Heinrich Himmler Adolf Hitler Sepp Dietrich Reinhard Heydrich

3. In 1934 who was running the Gestapo? Reinhard Heydrich Ernst Kaltenbrunner Heinrich Müller Adolf Eichmann

4. What SS units were in charge of running the concentration camps from 1934 onwards? Totenkopfverbände-SS (Death Head Units) Waffen-SS (Armed SS) Allgemeine SS (General SS) Sturm-Abteilung (SA)

5. In 1942, after Heydrich was assassinated, the village of Lidice in Bohemia was wiped off the face of the earth. True False

6. Did the Waffen-SS recruit non-Germans? Yes No

7. Which conference is generally accepted as marking the start of the "Final Solution"? Berlin Prague Nuremberg Wannsee

8. Which high-ranking SS officer has never been found? Adolf Eichmann Ernst Kaltenbrunner Rudolf Höss Heinrich Müller

9. How many people served in the Waffen-SS from 1939-1945? 500,000 12,000,000 5,000,000 1,000,000 +

10. What specialized units followed the German Army in the invasion of the Soviet Union, with orders to eliminate Jews, saboteurs, snipers, and Communists? SD-Einsatzgruppen Death Head Units Waffen-SS Sturm-Abteilung (SA)