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PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100306803518
ISBN-139780306803512
eBay Product ID (ePID)81643
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Book TitleSs : Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945
Number of Pages528 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1989
TopicHolocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / Germany
FeaturesReprint
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorGerald Reitlinger
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN88-033477
TitleLeadingThe
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisThe SS,short for the German Schutzstaffeln ,was a far-flung organization, of which the Gestapo was only one branch, that served as the tyrannical expression of Nazi bureaucracy, a politics of terror. Germans in high places still use the SS as a standard excuse for the acts of murder, extortion, and genocide that were facts of daily life under the Nazis. Reitlinger explores the complex social machinery that allowed the SS to operate,the administration and internal rivalries, the SS field divisions, German military intelligence, and the organization of the concentration and death camps. He shows how the SS was embedded in the basic government of the country during those years and how its members were not so much lunatic killers as loyal citizens doing the bidding of a country that had gone insane. Powerful, objective, and based on original German documents and interviews,including information from Himmler's statistician,this book rejects the SS as an alibi for a nation's responsibility in the most far-reaching racial massacre in history., The SS--short for the German Schutzstaffeln --was a far-flung organization, of which the Gestapo was only one branch, that served as the tyrannical expression of Nazi bureaucracy, a politics of terror. Germans in high places still use the SS as a standard excuse for the acts of murder, extortion, and genocide that were facts of daily life under the Nazis. Reitlinger explores the complex social machinery that allowed the SS to operate--the administration and internal rivalries, the SS field divisions, German military intelligence, and the organization of the concentration and death camps. He shows how the SS was embedded in the basic government of the country during those years and how its members were not so much lunatic killers as loyal citizens doing the bidding of a country that had gone insane. Powerful, objective, and based on original German documents and interviews--including information from Himmler's statistician--this book rejects the SS as an alibi for a nation's responsibility in the most far-reaching racial massacre in history.
LC Classification NumberDD253.6.R46 1989
