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Schutzstaffel

schutzs·taf·fel

UK/ˈʃʊts.stæ.fəl/ uncommon

noun

1.

special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps

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Origin

Unadapted borrowing from German Schutzstaffel.

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