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Author Koehl, Robert Lewis, 1922-2015, author

Title The SS : a History 1919-1945 / Robert Lewis Koehl
Published Stroud : The History Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (471 pages)
Contents Cover; About The Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Prehistory -- The Wild Bands, 1919-24; 2. The Early Years, 1925-29; 3. The Formative Years, 1930-32; 4. The Age of Opportunity, 1933; 5. The Betrayal, Winter 1933-30 June 1934; 6. The Years of Growth, 1934-39; 7. The Years of Tragic Fulfilment, 1939-45; 8. Conclusion: Behind the Mask of Possession; Glossary; List of Abbreviations
Summary The SS grew out of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler's obsession to prevent the treachery they believed to have caused the German defeat in the First World War. The SS was to be an elite corps of politically aware soldiers whose primary aim was to prevent the undermining of the Nazi Party by rendering its potential enemies 'harmless'. This disturbing story reveals not only the inner workings of the SS, but its paramount role in the mass murder of Europe's Jews, homosexuals and gypsies, its organisation of the death squads and the military campaigns undertaken by the Waffen SS
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2022)
Subject Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel -- History
SUBJECT Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel fast
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045717
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780752486895
0752486896