Adam B. How Hitler used the SS to Control the people of Germany.
As the SS grew so did Hitler's control of the population showing they were essential to the controlling of the country. The SS had started as only a small group of ‘bodyguards’ to protect Hitler but at the night of the long knives the SS replaced the SA. Himmler was the leader of the SS but it was separated into different groups of a network that did different things. But the whole SS network was being filled by as Himmler said “a master race” by the best examples of Germans.