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OCR: 55 is an ab breviation for Schutzstaffel, or Defense Echelon The was the black -uniformed elite police of the Nazi Party of Germany regarded by its commander Heinrich Himmler as an imperial guard The SS organized into military units, and trained separately from the German Army. Initially, the S5 was responsible the personal security Adoif Hitler, but its role expanded to include all police and racial matters in Germany and German held territories that capacity members of the organized and implemented the Final Solution. After the war the organization was declared illegal by the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, and its leaders were tried the Nuremberg Trials. impiemented