The SS: A Warning from History
by Guido Knopp
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The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has ever seen. Often referred to as "the state within a state", the SS was Heinrich Himmler's personal fiefdom and its influence pervaded all walks of German life, both private and public. Its tentacles extended into the army and police, the business world and of show more course the death camps. Author Guido Knopp reveals Himmler to be a man despised but indulged by Hitler who was obsessed with crackpot theories of Germanic mythology and deeply involved in the Final Solution. He assesses the career of Reinhard Heydrich, who put the organizational muscle and ruthlessness into the SS. The Totenkopf Brigade, set up specifically to run the concentration camps and death camps, is examined, as is the Waffen-SS, the military formation which killed thousands of Jews and partisans across Eastern Europe and fought bitterly against the Allies in Normandy. Also outlined is the postwar story of the SS. show lessTags
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Indeholder "Forord", "Magtkampen", "Himmlers vildfarelse", "Heydrichs herredømme", "Totenkopf - Dødningehoveddivisionen", "Waffen-SS", "Myten 'Odessa'", "Hierarkiet i SA og SS", "Billedhenvisning".
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"Totenkopf - Dødningehoveddivisionen" handler om hvad det var for mænd, der stod for de uhyrlige massedrab. Desværre helt almindelige mænd, der ikke risikererede noget ved at sige nej tak til at være med i myrderierne. Men der var mange opportunister iblandt. Mænd, der kunne se en fordel ved at være med i partiet, en fordel mere ved at være med i SS og en fordel mere ved at være med i en bestemt del af show more SS.???
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Aug 9, 2024Danish
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Guido Knopp is Head of History and Current Affairs for ZDF, Germany's second national TV channel
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- Die SS. Eine Warnung der Geschichte
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- Berlin, Tyskland
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.54 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- Military history of World War II
- LCC
- DD253.6 .K6613 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Germany History of Germany History By period Modern, 1519- 19th-20th centuries Revolution and Republic, 1918- Hitler, 1933-1945. National socialism
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