Corrected entry: Col. Landa is referred to as an SS officer, but on the sleeve of his uniform you can see (for example- when he meets the actress and her companions at the cinema) the letters SD, which is a completely different branch of Nazi armed forces.
sjhonny
30th Nov 2009
Correction: The Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Security Service) is the intelligence service of the SS. (source: Wikipedia).