How did European nations try to maintain a balance of power?

The great European powers during the Age of Absolutism—England, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia—maintained a balance of power by forming alliances that prevented any one power from developing a hegemony. These alliances typically pitted Austria against Prussia and England against France.

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the ss was the main organization responsible for the genocidal murder of around six million people of european ethnic minorities, essentially jews, in the holocaust. the members of all its branches committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during the second world war (1939-1945). likewise, the ss were involved in commercial enterprises and exploited the inmates of the concentration camps as slave laborers.

the tortures and assassinations committed by the ss were the result of an ideology developed long before the armed conflict, this ideology was based on the racial supremacy of the germans over the rest.