The Executioners

Following Germany's defeat in World War II, the tribunal at the Nuremberg trials officially declared them a criminal organisation.

SD agents worked hand in glove with the Gestapo, the secret police of Hitler, but even amongst all other kinds of Nazis – even amongst the Gestapo – they were regarded with fear and foreboding. The scary and most sinister part was that they were masters of disguise. Often you could not see them coming until it was too late. But if yours was the very bad luck to meet an SD agent in a dark alley you would be dazzled by how shiny were his shoes.

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Image is from Holocaust museum

SD (Sicherheitsdienst) Operatives

No time for cheap suits. Very sharp dressers. Certainly, they cut a striking figure – but then so did Lucifer. If you crossed one of the SD, you didn’t just end up in a ditch; you ended up erased. It would be as if you’d never even existed.

It was SD operatives who orchestrated the beginning of World War Two. It was a false flag job called Operation Himmler. The ruse was a fake raid on a radio station.

The SD were known for running false-flag tactics. In an assassination mission, they might:

• Stage an assassination attempt to look like it was carried out by local dissidents or a rival faction within the target’s own ranks to deflect suspicion.

• Use fake uniforms or plant evidence suggesting the involvement of another enemy state, such as the Allies or a nearby rival power, to create political turmoil.

Operation Himmler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler

Other examples of SD handiwork include Kristallnacht, Operation Tannenberg and The Final Solution. The SD first would gather lists of names of people who were a threat to the Nazi occupation. Soon after that would follow arrest and then execution.

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Heinrich Himmler with Reinhard Heydrich