1. special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps; [syn: Schutzstaffel, SS]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Schutzstaffel
n 1: special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal
bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the
concentration camps [syn: Schutzstaffel, SS]