Dressed in black uniforms emblazoned with the SS flash, Heinrich
Himmler's horsemen carried the SS banner across the German
countryside and to equestrian competitions throughout Germany and
Europe. They rode as the Equestrian SS, an SS cavalry force
designed to win elite support, to enhance social prestige, and to
attract farmers to Himmler's essentially urban organization. The
Equestrian SS was the only SS organization acquitted at the
Nuremberg Trials. Yet the Equestrian SS trained to be a security
and occupation force. In mounted Death's Head regiments in Poland
and in the SS Cavalry Brigade in Russia, Equestrian SS personnel
fulfilled their obligations as devoted SS political soldiers.
Driven by SS training, SS horsemen murdered thousands of Jews in
Eastern Europe. Wilson provides numerous anecdotes, statistics, and
capsule biographies of Equestrian SS personnel. This carefully
researched study is essential reading for scholars and lay people
interested in the history of Nazi Germany, the SS, and the
Holocaust.
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