The SS
HistoryNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-ParteiNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. SchutzstaffelPolitics and governmentGermany, politics and government, 1933-1945
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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.
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HistoryNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-ParteiNationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. SchutzstaffelPolitics and governmentGermany, politics and government, 1933-1945Nationalsozialistische deutsche arbeiter-partei, schutzstaffel
Setting
Germany1933-1945
About the author
Gerald Reitlinger
2 March 1900 – 8 March 1978
Gerald Roberts Reitlinger (born 1900 in London, United Kingdom – died 1978 in St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom) was an art historian, especially of Asian ceramics, and a scholar of historical changes in taste in art and their reflection in art prices. After World War II he wrote three large books about Nazi Germany. He was also a painter and collector, mainly of pottery. Reitlinger's major works were The Final Solution (1953), The SS: Alibi of a Nation (1956), and between 1961–1970 he published The Economics of Taste in three volumes.
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