The rise of the SS began with the murder of Ernst Roehm, the man who led the SA, the Nazi organisation of storm troopers.
This murder was carried out on Hitler's orders and heralded a wave of terror during which prominent opponents of the regime were eliminated.
Thereafter, the SS was firmly established as the supreme tool of the regime's terror-apparatus.
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