Why did the German army in World War II have to be strictly divided into Wehrmacht and SS?

Because Hitler did not trust his generals, he divided the army into Wehrmacht and SS, some under his direct command and some for foreign warfare.

Because at that time Germany had a very large number of enemies in the world, and it was possible to obtain the efficiency of the war by putting absolutely very different types.

The Wehrmacht were all traditional Junker aristocratic soldiers. Hitler did not trust the Wehrmacht, and the SA were very loyal to Hitler.

First of all, there is no good thing to give to anyone who has the word Germany, the Wehrmacht and the SS are both military forces loyal to the Third Reich, the Wehrmacht is a regular German army, the military quality is excellent, and the equipment is very luxurious, while the SS is the private armed forces of the Nazi Party, although the combat quality is slightly worse than that of the Wehrmacht, but the fighting will is fierce, like the Third Skeleton Division of the SS, which is not worse than the Japanese first-class division, and even surpasses it.

The Wehrmacht and the SS, one was a regular army and the other was not, and the Wehrmacht was more combat-ready because it was a trained, regular army.

The Wehrmacht belonged to the regular army of the state, and the SS belonged to the armed forces of the Nazi Party. When it comes to combat effectiveness, the Wehrmacht as a whole is very strong, while the SS is a few of these units that are very combat-ready.

The SS was the private arm of the Nazi Party, while the Wehrmacht was a regular force, and the Wehrmacht was generally more combat-ready.

The Wehrmacht is filial to the country, and the SS is filial to the Führer.

Each has its own merits, and the Wehrmacht also has its own war five scum troops.

The great majestic and domineering SS.

Of course, the SS was awesome.

The SS can be said to be the private arm of the Nazi Party, mainly to prevent the Wehrmacht from betraying Hitler. The German Army has always been the pride of Germany, and they are loyal only to those who are of great help to the German national interests, which also explains why, before the fall of France, Hitler had always been wary of the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht did not like Hitler very much, and the Wehrmacht brought Hitler to power mainly to let him break the restrictions of the Versailles Treaty in preparation for the rebuilding of the army. If you want to say who is more powerful, of course, it is the SS.

Because the equipment of the SS is generally better than that of the Wehrmacht, the new ** is the first to be tested by the SS, and the training of the SS is harder than that of the Wehrmacht, and the conditions for conscription are more than those of the Wehrmacht, and the quality of the soldiers is very high. Now let's talk about their differences:

Uniform. The SS uniform was black, the hat had a skull emblem on it, and the steel helmet and neckline were two lightning bolts (SS symbol), and there were some differences between different units, such as the Viking flag, like leaves, etc. The Wehrmacht uniform is gray-blue, the steel helmet is the Imperial Eagle, and the hat is sandwiched between two olive branches (I don't know if it's an olive branch, but it's like it anyway) sandwiched between them.

Equip. As mentioned earlier, the SS would be given priority to the new equipment, and the SS would be better equipped than the Wehrmacht (a little more submachine guns, tanks, etc. would be allocated).

Tactics of war. The Wehrmacht was a veteran of the Prussian aristocracy and a professional soldier from a military academy, so the Wehrmacht was tactical, had a strong officer corps, and would not kill prisoners. The SS was mostly born as Nazi fanatics, so the SS charged with fanatical Nazi ideology, was deeply poisoned by Nazi ideology, and never took prisoners, and killed those who surrendered.

Therefore, although the SS achieved greater results than the Wehrmacht, its own ** was about the same as the enemy's**. It can be described by an idiom: kill a thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred.

Duty. The Wehrmacht was only responsible for fighting the war, while the SS was initially responsible for local policing and the arrest of Jews. In addition, the SS established the Gestapo (state secret police organization), which made the SS assume the role of maintaining law and order in both the early and later periods.

Later SS troops were sent to the battlefield in large numbers).

Faith. The Wehrmacht believed in the supremacy of national interests and the traditional Prussian military honor, and did whatever it could represent the interests of the German nation within the scope of military honor. The SS was constantly permeated with the dogmas of Nazi expansionism and racial discrimination.

Internationally. The SS was not recognized as a legitimate organization by the countries involved in the war at the time, so captured SS officers and men were often at risk of being shot at any time, as they were not protected by the Geneva Conventions. In battle, the SS was more tenacious and ruthless than the Wehrmacht, and the SS, with its higher military quality, better equipment, and more fanatical ideas, was more difficult for the enemy to deal with than the Wehrmacht.

That's pretty much it, welcome to add.

Downstairs, there were more SS than Wehrmacht? As long as the Wehrmacht mutinied, the SS could not save Hitler.

The SS had only a few hundred thousand, while the Wehrmacht had several million.

Of course, there are essential differences. In a normal country, the army is the army of the people, so it is only the legitimate election of the people, and it absolutely does not participate in politics, no matter how the regime changes. This is the Wehrmacht, and they owe allegiance to Hitler because Hitler was the Führer of Germany.

The SS was the private armed forces of the Nazi Party, which occupied a lot of advantageous resources after the Nazis occupied state power, and the limelight overshadowed the Wehrmacht, which made the Wehrmacht generals who were born in orthodox soldiers extremely unhappy.

In fact, in the end, they were all loyal to Hitler, the Wehrmacht was a regular army, and the German professional soldiers (Wehrmacht) never believed in a single person. The belief of the traditional German officer corps is only to serve the motherland and the people, and whoever is the emperor and who is the ** has nothing to do with themselves. In the early days of its existence, the SS was only Hitler's guard and a tool against political opponents, subordinate to the SA, and was very small.

is a professional hooligan) Subsequently, led by Himmler, the SS developed a lot. By the beginning of 1933, the membership had grown to more than 50,000. In July 1934, the SS replaced the SA as the leading role in the Nazi terrorist organization, with Hitler under direct control.

After the SS was exhibited, they selected outstanding soldiers, generals, etc. from the Wehrmacht.

The SS was divided into the General SS and the SS.

The SS was better equipped than the Wehrmacht, the SS had a stronger patriotic fervor and a sense of national identity than the Wehrmacht, and the SS had stricter selection and training than the Wehrmacht; However, the Wehrmacht accumulated more practical experience in the early stages of the war, and its number was much larger than that of the SS, so the SS only showed its edge in 1942, playing the role of a special elite unit in Germany, and was the "firefighter" in the German army. The national commander-in-chief of the SS almost never interfered in the actual combat of the SS, and the control of the SS in actual combat was mainly in the hands of Hitler himself and the division commanders.

In a dualist system of armies, a country has two legitimate armed forces.

The SS was divided into ordinary SS and Waffen-SS.

Ordinary SS coverage is more, doctors, **** or something.

Of course, the Wehrmacht was powerful, and the SS mainly suppressed internal terror and exterminated the Jews, but in the end it also went to the front and ran out.

National defense should be Germany's self-defense forces. The SS was Hitler's personal retinue.

The Wehrmacht served the country and the people, and the SS was an army that Hitler did not believe in the Wehrmacht and built to be loyal only to himself.

The Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Moscow were preceded by the Wehrmacht, and then by the SS. Upstairs it seems to be "Yuri".

Of course it's the SS, you know the Gestapo, such a powerful person is just the second in the SS, who is the boss? Hitler, of course ... It could be a spy organization that Hitler wanted to rule the world, or it could be a death squad...

From the depths of the heart to destroy the will of mankind ...

At the beginning of 1933, more than 50,000 SS troops.

Originally meant the Guards, the entire police department, including the State Secret Police (Gestapo), was also led by the SS. There were about 400,000 men, with two lightning bolts as the SS symbol, and the army of the German Empire was almost completely disbanded. Its lightning emblem was created by Walter Hecker

Heck) in 1932. July 1934. By 1921 it had been massively reduced to 100,000.

The Wehrmacht, in a big way, expanded.

At the end of the First World War, Röhm was executed. On 6 March 1919, a decree was issued that the SS played a leading role in the Nazi terrorist organization. In addition, there are special forces skeleton teams guarding concentration camps.

At its peak, the number reached more than 500,000. When Hitler came to power, he established the Provisional Wehrmacht, which at its peak numbered 17 million (including those recruited from the subject state).

The number of SS people changed.

As the SS grew in size, so did its numbers. Its number is as follows: the total number of field troops at the time.

Time total number of field troops.

December 31, 1938.

May 1, 1940.

September 1, 1942.

December 31, 1943.

June 30, 1944.

At the end of 1944.

About 910,000. The war ended.

About 950,000. In 45 years, a total of 8 million German soldiers surrendered to the Allies and the Soviet Army, and this number, minus the SS, is almost the size of the Wehrmacht.

Total troops: 3.8 million in Germany, 5 million in the Soviet Union.

Establishment: 156 German divisions and 2 brigades, 170 Soviet divisions and 2 brigades Tanks: 4,300 Germans, 1,475 new Soviet tanks Artillery: 10,000 German (50 mm or more), 10,000 Soviet guns.

Combat aircraft: 4,980 German, 1,540 new Soviet aircraft, a large number of old aircraft combat ships: 192 German, 396 Soviet.

Fighting on two fronts in the east and west, there is simply no way to draw people, no matter how powerful the SS is, it can't stand up to the crowd, it's okay for Britain and the United States, the Soviet Union's pure crowd tactics, it is recommended that the landlord take a look,, The memoirs of a forgotten soldier, a soldier of a great German-Italian division, not bad.

First of all, to answer your first question, the SS is not the best quality army! They were only a paramilitary team loyal to the Nazis strictly selected from among the Germanic people, and because of their fanaticism, they fought very tenaciously, but tenacity did not mean that they were the strongest in combat, because their military organization was only good for politics, but the real war was not very professional, which was mentioned in the memoirs of the more authoritative German generals! The second question, the reason for Germany's defeat, it can be said that Germany achieved a very brilliant victory that year, but with the entry of the United States, the ratio of military strength between the Axis and the Allies has changed fundamentally, Germany is not enough to resist the blows of many powers, its own military strength is very strong but in the face of so many strong enemies, once the blitzkrieg fails, the war of attrition is the result of defeat!

And you have to know that Germany is actually fighting alone, and there is nothing to pull out of the allies! The strongest ally of his allies is Japan, but Japan itself is not enough to confront the United States....

No, their quality is average.