The SS Race and Settlement Main Office was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial purity of the SS" within Nazi Germany.
SS christening of a child born through the RuSHA's Lebensborn program in 1936
Babies born during the SS Lebensborn program in 1943
Some of the 14 defendants in the RuSHA Trial at Nuremberg read the indictments against them in July 1947.
Bundesarchiv Bild 119 2179, Walter Richard Darré
Allgemeine SS
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The Allgemeine SS was a major branch of the Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany; it was managed by the SS Main Office. The Allgemeine SS was officially established in the autumn of 1934
SS Race and Settlement Main Office
…1931–1945) Agency executives Walther Darré, 1931–1938 Günther Pancke, 1938–1940 Otto Hofmann, 1940–1943 Richard Hildebrandt, 1943–1945 Parent agency Allgemeine SS The SS Race and Settlement Main Office (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt der SS, RuSHA) was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial purity…
Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler leads an SS ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Heinrich I at Quedlinburg, July 1938.
1939 photograph; shown from left to right are Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller. According to the archival caption, these men are planning the investigation of the bomb assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler of 8 November 1939 in Munich.
Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arriving at Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944