4. SS troops for special employment, including the Adolf Hitler
Bodyguard—before 1939, about 9,000 men.
5. Honorary Führer of the SS, whose number will probably turn out to be
very large, as, for instance, the Farmer Leaders (Bauernführer) of the
Reich Food Estate down to the District Farmer Leaders
(Kreisbauernführer) were for the most part appointed honorary Führer of
the SS. Similar conditions prevail with respect to the chiefs of several
branches of the state administration, who were often made honorary
Führer of the SS without any initiative on their part and without being
able to do anything about it. Likewise many leaders of the Reich
Veterans’ League received honorary ranks in the SS.
6. The “supporting members” of the SS, among whom were also many
non-Party members; their number is not yet known but it is certainly
very considerable.