Author: Adrian WealePublisher: Abacus Software
ISBN: 9780349117522
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The definitive history of the SS by an acclaimed expert.
Army of Evil
Author: Adrian WealePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101598077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In Nazi Germany, they were called the Schutzstaffeln. The world would know them as the dreaded SS—the most loyal and ruthless enforcers of the Third Reich. It began as a small squad of political thugs. Yet by the end of 1935, the SS had taken control of all police and internal security duties in Germany—ranging from local village “gendarmes” all the way up to the secret political police and the Gestapo. Eventually, its ranks would grow to rival even Germany’s regular armed forces, the Wehrmacht. Going beyond the myths and characterizations, Army of Evil reveals the reality of the SS as a cadre of unwavering political fanatics and power-seeking opportunists who slavishly followed an ideology that disdained traditional morality—an ideology that they were prepared to implement to the utmost murderous extreme, which ultimately resulted in the Holocaust. This is a definitive historical narrative of the birth, legacy, and demise of one of the most feared political and military organizations ever known—and of those twisted, cruel men who were responsible for one of the most appalling crimes against humanity in history. INCLUDES RARE PHOTOGRAPHS
History of the SS
Author: G. S. GraberPublisher:
ISBN: 9780709058809
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A history of the SS, the Nazi Party's military arm, woven around the life and career of SS chief, Heinrich Himmler. The author reveals the SS rituals; how it functioned as a business organization; and how the key men (Himmler, Heydrich, Eichmann and others) operated - often against one another.
The SS
Author: Adrian WealePublisher: Little Brown GBR
ISBN: 9780316727235
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
The SS is the most historically important institution of Third Reich Germany yet it remains amongst the least well understood. The SS was at the forefront of implementing the most radical and terrible policies of Nazi Germany: the Jewish Holocaust and mass resettlement of Russia and eastern Europe; the enslavement of the working population of the whole of occupied Europe. Yet at the same time members of the SS were subverting Nazi racial and foreign policy, associating with the Nazi resistance and even attempting to seek a separate peace with the western allies in direct defiance of Hitler's orders. This thought-provoking new book argues that as the ideological 'engine room' of National Socialism, a study of the SS is the best way of gaining insight into how Nazism would have evolved if Germany had not lost the war. Packed full of the exceptional detail that comes from careful new research, this book will be the book to buy on the SS for a generation.
Author: sir Joseph Archer CroweThe New History and the Old
Author: Gertrude HimmelfarbPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674013841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her exploration of the ways historians make sense of the past.
Author: Louis Ellies Du Pin
Author: Joseph A. Crowe
Author: Joseph Archer Crowe
Author: Patricia Owens