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Chargement... The SS alibi of a nation 1922-1945 + allegati (original 1956; édition 1981)par Gerald Reitlinger (Auteur), Martin Gilbert (Introduction)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945 par Gerald Reitlinger (1956)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Based almost entirely on original German documents, including the captured files of the SS leadership, The SS: Alibi of a Nation gives a final account of the Nazi Praetorian Guard. With steadily mounting tension, the story moves from the origins of the SS before 1923 to its supremacy, twenty years later, as the most appalling instrument of political and military terror known to history. ( )
An able, scholarly and full history of the principal instrument of Nazi terror. As the subtitle indicates, the author does not accept the theory that the S.S. alone was responsible for or aware of the atrocities of the Hitler era.
Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes. Wikipédia en anglais (19)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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)943.086History and Geography Europe Germany and central Europe Historical periods of Germany Germany 1866- Third Reich 1933-1945Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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