How Did The Government Have A Large Amount Of Power And Authority

The SS had a large amount of power and authority in the government. They were given places in the government to allow the people of Germany to see good in the actions of the SS officers. The authority in the government and to the people had an impact on what the people believed and who answered to whom. The SS was run by eight individuals over a large amount of years, with the most known being Heinrich Himmler. These individuals commanded the Nazi force and personally guarded Adolf Hitler. Up until the assassination of Ernst Rohm and the government before the SS officers came into play, the government was all connected and worked together. When Ernst Rohm was assassinated, the SS split from the entire government of Germany and became independent,
They got to implement their own ways in running the camps and how to treat the prisoners in them. After 1934, the SS controlled all of the concentration camps across German-occupied territories. A branch of the SS called the Totenkopfverbande ran the concentration camps, who caused the mass genocide, and also allowed the other SS officers to believe that they had complete control over Nazi Germany. They had power and lots of ways to use it. Within the first 3 years of the concentration camp's existence, the camps had expanded to hold all the new prisoners coming into the camps and also to increase the amount of labor they were getting per day. However, not everyone was physically able to work. Women, children, elderly, and sick people did not have the capabilities to complete the tasks that the SS wanted them to complete, so upon arriving, the people that fit the standards of work were sent to the dorms to live, while the rest went to the gas chambers and were killed off. According to the article on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, titled “SS and the Camp System,” around 2 million prisoners in the camps were killed during the war by gassing. Many died from overworking. The prisoners only jobs were to complete work that the SS assigned to them, and more likely than not, it was extreme labor that had detrimental effects to their health and happiness. The work was manual labor out in the fields to build buildings for more prisoners to arrive, farming, or coal mining. The soil around the camps was very suitable for farming, which was the deciding factor on where the camp would be located. The location of the camps was not decided on the conditions for the prisoners to live, but on how well the soil would make bricks and stone quarries. These areas were very muddy and often got soggy, and would