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The SS Medical Corps was a formation within the SS of professional doctors who provided medical services for the SS, including experiments on and the development of different methods of murdering prisoners. ==Formation== The first units of the SS Medical Corps began to appear in the 1930s. Within each ''SS-Sturmbann'' (battalion), there existed one company of SS personnel whose duty was to serve as medical support personnel to the rest of the SS battalion. Known as the ''Sanitätsstaffel'', these formations were originally small units under the command of local SS leaders. After 1931, however, the SS formed a headquarters office known as ''Amt'' V, which was the central office for SS medical units. At this same time, a special SS unit was formed known as the ''Röntgensturmbann SS-HA'', or the ''Hauptamt'' X-Ray Battalion. This formation comprised 350 full-time SS personnel who toured Germany offering X-ray diagnostics to any SS member. While the ''Röntgensturmbann'' was an independent office, the local ''Sanitätsstaffel'' were under dual command of both the SS Medical Office (Amt V), and the leaders of the various ''SS-Sturmbann'' and ''Standarten''. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the SS was reorganized and an office of the SS Surgeon General was established. Commanded by an ''SS-Obergruppenführer'', the SS Surgeon General was a member of the personal staff of the ''Reichsführer-SS'', with the SS Medical Corps, as a whole, losing the status of a headquarters office. This was an important development in changing the nature of service for members of the SS Medical Corps. By 1935, the SS Medical Corps was considered an 'auxiliary duty', and all members of the medical corps were also attached to regular SS formations. To denote medical corps status, the SS authorized a serpent crest to be worn on the collar patches of SS unit insignia. Because SS Medical Corps members could now serve in any branch of the SS, this expansion allowed medical professionals to join every SS office and participate in a variety of duties. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Medical Corps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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