Reports and images have circulated that state that the suspect in the shooting had a tattoo of a Totenkopf and SS bolts.

The Schutzstaffel, best known by its shortened name the SS, was a paramilitary organisation operating beneath Adolf Hitler during the Second World War. Beginning as a volunteer guard unit which acted ...

They began as bodyguards - but became the most feared killers in Nazi Germany. The SS didn’t just enforce Hitler’s will - they became his ultimate weapon of terror, responsible for the Holocaust and ...

Neufeld, Michael J. 1997. [Book review] "Hitler&#39s Enforcers: The Gestapo and SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution." German Studies Review, 20, (3), 473–474.