Tornado - Army Series 02 - SS Soldiers, Equipment, Equipment, Tactics MILITARY HISTORY, HOBBY & ENTERTAINMENT Tornado - Army Series 02 - SS Soldiers, Equipment, Equipment, Tactics Author: Collective Name: SS soldiers, equipment, equipment, tactics Publisher : Tornado, Riga Year of publication: 1997 Number of pages: 41 Language: Russian Format: PDF Size: 21 MB Quality: Good Series Army Series 2. The rapid growth of the SS began in 1929, when Heinrich Himmler - a weak, gentle, but at the same time unusually vain man - was appointed to the post of Re.. Jhsfhrer SS . Over the next ten years, Himmler expanded his "eparchy", especially after Hitler refused to comply with the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles in 1935 and introduced universal conscription. By September 1939, Himmler had three reinforced regiments (Leibstandarte 'Adolf Hitler', Siandane 'Deutschland' and Standarte 'Germany'), and the fourth - Austrian - the regiment was in the formation and training fala. In addition, the SS troops included Totenkopfverb . Snde (Dead Head Unit), guarding prisoners in concentration camps, subsequently deployed to a motorized division. By the end of the war, the SS had 38 divisions. Many of them were quite powerful parts, while some existed only on paper. By that time, the SS had already earned its nickname - "soldiers of destruction".. com 85