Hitler's Foreign Executioners (eBook)

Europe's Dirty Secret

Christopher Hale (Autor)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
464 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-6393-3 (ISBN)

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In Hitler's Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler's secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of 'Germanic' peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an 'SS Europa'. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europe's dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism. Even today, some apologists claim that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers 'like any other' and fought a decent war against Stalin's Red Army. Historian Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmler's murderous master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they were worthy of joining his future 'SS Europa'. But as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmler's monstrous scheme led to bitter confrontations with Hitler - and to the downfall of the man once known as 'loyal Heinrich'.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: 2nd World War • 3rd Reich • Concentration Camp • Europe's Dirty Secret • foreign nazis • Germanic people • Germanic peoples • Heinrich Himmler • Hitler • Holocaust • loyal heinrich • Nazi • Nazi Germany • nazi infighting • non german ss • second-world-war • Second World War • ss empire • ss europa • ss foreign legions • The SS • Third Reich • world-war-ii • World War II • world-war-ii, second-world-war, holocaust, hitler, nazi, concentration camp • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-6393-4 / 0752463934
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-6393-3 / 9780752463933