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In its role as the administrative department of the SS, the WVHA had an important function in both the Allgemeine SS and the Waffen SS. During the pre-war years Pohl's Verwaltungsamt handled the administrative functions of the Allgemeine SS, including controlling the funds raised from members of the Allgemeine SS, developing an administrative organization for all the branches of the Allgemeine SS, and training the personnel for this administrative system The WVHA also created a subsidiary organizations known as the Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe (German Economic Enterprises), generally abbreviated DWB as a project to profit from the use of Nazi concentration camp inmates as slaves, engaging primarily in the following types of commercial ventures: (English)
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