SS Ehrengarde

The SS Ehrengarde (English: Honour Guards), also known as the SS-Allgemeine-Leibstandarte, is an elite combined military unit within the SS made up of two divisions of the Nazi Party's elite of the Waffen-SS. Adolf Hitler decreed at the time that the Honour Guards was neither a part of the police nor the German Wehrmacht, but military-trained men at the disposal of the Führer.

During the final stages of the German Civil War, the unit was designated to be combined from the divisions of the Leibstandarte SS and the SS-Verfügungstruppe to be larger than it is meant to be, commanded by men from the Allgemeine SS.

After the end of the war, it was rumoured that the last of the Honour Guards went into hiding within Germany and were said to house the true successor of Adolf Hitler himself; Heinrich Himmler. It was because of this rumour that Wilhelm II ordered the members of the army to be executed immediately without question. Though, a lot of its members managed to evade capture and remain in hiding, answering only to Heinrich Himmler.

They are recognised widely because of their black uniforms in both civil and paramilitary formations, even on the battlefield.

Formation and recruitment
The SS-EG was formed on 1st Junuary 1936 by orders of Adolf Hitler to act as the personaly army loyal only to the Führer, made up of members of the SS-Liebstandarte.With the size set to a corps, the SS-EG was made out of only the best and most superior of all "Aryans" in the Waffen-SS, those who showed complete and utter loyalty to the Reich, willing to follow orders without question or remorse, and those who are the most physically fit to become the Führer's personal bodyguards.

The training experienced by the men of the Ehrengarde, as per the Führer's orders, is very brutal and tiring, intended to weed out the weak from the strong by forcing the worst onto each of its members. This method is often referred to as pure spartanism, with each member stripped of any sort of innocense and trained only in the art of warfare. Because of this, they were considered the strongest unit in the entire Waffen-SS.