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Himmler creates the Security Service of the Nazi Party.
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The Nazis obtain control of the German state with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, marking the beginning of the Third Reich.
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Hitler announces that the SS is an independent organization as a reward for its role in murdering Ernst Röhm and the top leadership of the SA.
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The SS establishes the Lebensborn (Fount of Life) Society, which is to care for children born out of wedlock to women whom the SS deems racially suitable.
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Adolf Hitler appoints Himmler as Reichsführer SS and Chief of German Police. Himmler is now commander of all German police. Himmler completes the centralization of the various criminal police departments in Germany into the Reich Criminal Police Office .
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The SS takes control of the Ethnic German Liaison Office.
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The SD creates a station in Vienna to facilitate the forced emigration of Jews from Austria.
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The SS and police steer the violence of Kristallnacht toward the Jews of Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. During the pogrom, the German police round up around 30,000 Jews and incarcerate them in concentration camps.
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Himmler establishes the Waffen SS, an armed SS force.