Waffen-SS

The Waffen-SS is a special German ideological army formed from the Leibstandarte, the elite bodyguard regiment of Adolf Hitler. The Waffen-SS makes up most the German SS, along with SS-Abwehr and the Gestapo. The Waffen-SS is mostly made up German nationalists and members of the so-called 'Herrenvolk', or 'master race'. The Waffen-SS saw most of it's service to the Reich on the Eastern Front.