Definitions for "Schutzstaffel"
"protective squad" --originally Hitler's bodyguard, the SS grew into any army of 600,000 men (the Waffen-SS), totally independent of the Wehrmacht.
special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
Literally "Protection Squad", the feared independent arm of the army
The (German for "Protective Squadron"), abbreviated