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 & 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 & its influence pervaded all walks of German life, both private & public. Its tentacles extended into the army & police, the business world & of course the death camps. The author reveals Himmler to be a man despised but indulged by Hitler who was obsessed with crackpot theories of Germanic mythology & deeply involved in the Final Solution. He assesses the career of Reinhard Heydrich, who put the organisational muscle & ruthlessness into the SS. The Totenkopf Brigade, set up specifically to run the concentration camps & death camps, is examined, as is the Waffen-SS, the military formation which killed thousands of Jews & partisans across Eastern Europe & fought bitterly against the Allies in Normandy. The postwar story of the SS is also outlined, from clandestine organisations of former SS men to the activities of ex-Nazis & neo-Nazis today. Supported by photographs & the words of former SS men, their close friends & colleagues, Guido Knopp brings back to life a generation whose fanaticism & violence shaped the identity of the Third Reich. ...

The SS was one of the least understood institutions of the Third Reich Germany but also one of the most important. At the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police & internal security duties & the militarised Waffen SS has more than 800, 000 men serving in the field, in direct rivalry with the traditional German armed forces, the Wehrmacht. Using previously unavailable material, this definitive book refocuses attention on & enhances understanding of the hard-nosed political fanatics & opportunists who were responsible for one of the most appalling crimes in human history: the attempted execution of the Jews of Europe. ...

In the darkest moment of history, one child found the courage & strength to survive the unimaginable. This is Henry's true story. One hot, humid day in July, 1944, the Gestapo abducted fifteen-year-old Henry & his mother, forcing them onto cramped cattle cars in the Lódz Polish Ghetto. Like so many Jews before them, they had been selected to disappear
- they were being sent to Auschwitz. Exhausted after hours of traveling, they finally emerged from the stifling, filth-ridden cattle car. Already devastated at having lost his father to starvation, Henry clutched his mother's frail h&, knowing she was all he had left in the world, & that he was the only one left to protect her. In a flash, he felt them being brutally torn apart. Crying out for her, his heart shuddered as he watched her disappear into a sea of other women. Henry knew that was the last time he would ever see her, & he felt like he had failed her. He was now completely alone in the world. Starving, & close to...
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