![]() Based on the seniority system of SS membership number, this made Hitler senior in the SS to all other members even if not by rank.Īfter the Night of the Long Knives, when the SS became independent from the SA, Hitler was listed on SS officer rolls as member No. 2, although leadership was assumed by Julius Schreck who was member No. 1, Emil Maurice (considered the founder of the SS) was member No. ![]() Following the Night of the Long Knives Hitler "raised the SS, hitherto subordinate to the SA, to the rank of an independent organisation". Prior to 1934 the SS were nominally under the command of the Sturmabteilung and so it could be said that both Adolf Hitler as Oberster SA-Führer and Ernst Röhm as Stabschef SA outranked the most senior SS position of Reichsführer-SS. Inspection by the Nazi party and Himmler at the Dachau concentration camp on
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