Complex sentence: Carefully crafted articles in the paper gave both the SS men and the other readers an elitist image of the organization, by means of information about the SS, its activities and successes, which were constantly scattered throughout the whole of the paper.
Split into simpler sentences: Carefully crafted articles gave SS men and the other readers an elitist image of the organization. This by means of information about the SS, its activities and successes, which were constantly scattered throughout the paper.