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• n  special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps

• Schutzstaffel
• SS

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• Did Nazis Study Insects for Use in Biological Warfare?
  Was the Nazi SS studying insects with the intent of launching a bug-based attack? Scholars have known for decades the feared SS (Schutzstaffel or "protection squadron") in Nazi Germany had established an entomological research institute at the Dachau concentration camp. Documents that survived World War II describe experiments related to biological warfare. After reading through historical ...
  Feb. 22, 2014 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News