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		brenden2 on May 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pentagon official: FCC decision on 5G threatens GP... I don't think the distinction matters. The SS was an armed military force, with 900,000 soldiers.

rumanator on May 7, 2020 [–]

Wrong. The SS was a paramilitary organization within the nazi party. It started as a small group of loyalist bodyguards.

Their name literally meant "hall security".

And when Himmler took over the organization, the SS featured less than 3k members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

You're either a poor troll or extremely uninformed.

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