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Ss: Hitler's Instrument of Terror (Hardcover)
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Ss: Hitler's Instrument of Terror (Hardcover)
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List price R711
Loot Price R560
Discovery Miles 5 600
You Save R151 (21%)
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In the beginning just a handful of men were raised to be Adolf
Hitler's personal bodyguard, the SS - meaning protection squad -
this small group eventually became a multi-headed beast with many
responsibilities. It ran internal security with ruthless
efficiency; it implemented the horrific Nazi racial policy and ran
the concentration camps; it was an important, and in the end solely
reliable, part of the Reich's intelligence services; and perhaps
most strikingly, it developed its own combat units. Numbering over
900,000 soldiers by the end of 1944, the Waffen-SS (Armed SS)
campaigned in Poland, western Europe, the Balkans and the Soviet
Union, fighting to the end in the ruins of Berlin. SS: Hitler's
Instrument of Terror is a balanced, authoritative account of
Hitler's private army, the very cornerstone of the Third Reich's
internal security forces. Every aspect of the SS is examined in
full: its units and their battles, the foreign legions, the various
non-military departments, and the key figures who led formations in
the field and oversaw internal affairs within Nazi Germany, men
such as Heinrich Himmler,`Sepp' Dietrich, Theodor Eicke and Kurt
Meyer. In addition, the questions of atrocities committed against
prisoners and civilians, and the SS's role in the concentration
camp system, are addressed in full. SS: Hitler's Instrument of
Terror is illustrated with 270 colour and black and white
photographs, many from private collections and not seen before, and
including 25 colour artworks. For any student of modern military
history and elite fighting formations, this comprehensive work is
bound to fascinate. The book is the definitive account of Nazi
Germany's most notorious organization, and its important role in
the Third Reich.
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