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Schutzstaffel

//ˈʃʊts.stæ.fəl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Squadron of the Luftstreitkräfte of the German Empire; Schusta. historical
  2. 2
    special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps wordnet
  3. 3
    The internal security force of Nazi Germany; the SS. historical
  4. 4
    A division or corps of this force.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Schutzstaffel.

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