The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SSThe SS was the terror of Europe. Swearing eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler, it infiltrated every aspect of German life and was responsible for the deaths of millions. This gripping history recounts the strange and, at times, absurd true story of Hitler's SS. It exposes an organization that was not directed by some devilishly efficient system but was the product of accident, inevitability, and the random convergence of criminals, social climbers, and romantics. Above all, this eye-opening book describes in fascinating detail the chaotic political conditions that allowed the SS-despite rivalries and bizarre conditions-to assume and exercise unaccountable power. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE FORMATION OF THE SS | 14 |
HEINRICH HIMMLER | 29 |
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Abwehr Adolf Hitler Allgemeine-SS Army arrest Bavarian became Bennecke Berger Berlin Bormann Broszat Buchheim Central Archives Chancellery concentration camps Corps Court criminal Daluege Diels Dietrich Division East Eichmann Eicke Einsatzgruppe enemy fact Final Solution force Foreign Ministry formations Fritsch Führer Gauleiter German Gestapo Goebbels Göring Gruppenführer Hauptamt Hausser head Heinrich Himmler Heydrich Hilberg HSSPF Ibid IMT Vol Jewish Jews July June Kersten Krausnick Kripo later Leibstandarte military Minister Müller Munich murder National-Socialist Nazi NSDAP Obergruppenführer officers Ohlendorf op cit Ordnungspolizei organisation Party Poland Polish Political Police Polizei prisoners putsch racial realised recruiting regime Reichsführer Reichsführer-SS Reichswehr Reitlinger RFSS Microfilm Ribbentrop Röhm Röhm's RSHA Russian Sauer and Schulz Schellenberg Schwarze Korps SD's secret senior Sicherheitspolizei soldiers Soviet SS Commanders SS Headquarters SS leaders SS-Gruppenführer staff Standartenführer Steiner Stennes took Verbal information Verfügungstruppe Waffen-SS Wehrmacht Werner Best Wolff
