Editing Schutzstaffel (section)

====''SS-Frauenkorps''====
The ''SS-Frauenkorps'' was an auxiliary reporting and clerical unit,{{sfn|Lower|2013|p=108}} which included the ''SS-Helferinnenkorps'' (Women Helper Corps), made up of female volunteers. Members were assigned as administrative staff and supply personnel and served in command positions and as guards at women's concentration camps.{{sfn|Schwarz|1997|pp=223–244}}{{sfn|Lower|2013|pp=108–109}} While female concentration and extermination camp guards were civilian employees of the SS, the ''SS-Helferinnen'' who completed training at the ''Reichsschule für SS-Helferinnen'' in Oberehnheim (Alsace) were members of the ''Waffen-SS''.{{sfn|Mühlenberg|2011|pp=13–14}} Like their male equivalents in the SS, females participated in the mass murder of Jews, Poles, and others.{{sfn|Lower|2013|p=109}}

In 1942, Himmler set up the ''Reichsschule für SS Helferinnen'' (Reich School for SS Helpers) in [[Obernai|Oberehnheim]] to train women in communications so that they could free up men for combat roles. Himmler also intended to replace all female civilian employees in his service with ''SS-Helferinnen'' members, as they were selected and trained according to Nazi ideology.{{sfn|Century|2011}}{{sfn|Rempel|1989|pp=223–224}} The school was closed on 22 November 1944 due to the Allied advance.{{sfn|Mühlenberg|2011|p=27}}