Any one interested in History??

[IanG]

Do you know that SS stands for SchutzStaffel???
does it not? (Defence or Protection Team or Squadron)
Schutzstaffel (German), in the Nazi regime: an elite paramilitary unit, originally of bodyguards to party leaders, later of ruthless and feared enforcers of Nazi policy in all areas, of which the Gestapo formed a part.
[1940s: German, meaning 'defence squadron'.]
As for the Democratic Republic's STASI that stood for Staats Sicherheits Dienst
Stasi German
abbreviation the name of the former East German secret police which was abolished in 1990.
[1990s: German, a shortened form of Staatssicherheitsdienst state security service.]

Gestapo is yet another Nazi contraction - Geheimnisse Staatspolizei
It literally means ' Secret State Police'. Considering how much Hitler banged on about a pure Germany, the Nazis really screwed up the German language to meet their own purposes, so there were words like 'Lebensraum' literally 'room to live' which was used in connection with the ghetto-ization and murder of Jews and the claiming of the Sudetenland as Germany territory.
'Die Endlösung der Judenfrage' or 'Final solution of the Jewish question' actually meant an acceleration of the mass extermination of Jews. Perhaps the most notorious of Nazi phrases was 'Arbeit macht frei' (Work sets one free) which was emblazoned above the gates of Aushwitz.