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World War 2 History: Eyewitness Accounts: Crimes Of The German FBK & SS
When Heinrich Himmler was appointed as its fourth leader in 1929, the SS consisted of less than three hundred volunteers whose job was to protect Nazi Party speakers. The SS was so short of cash that its members had to provide their own uniforms and fund their own meetings and transport.
By the end of World War Two, just sixteen years later, more than one million men had served in the combat arm of the SS alone and the SS controlled almost every aspect of life in Germany and in the occupied parts of Europe and Russia.
Members of the SS ran Concentration and Death Camps where millions were murdered. SS combat troops massacred prisoners of war and civilians and SS doctors conducted some of the most horrifying medical experiments the world has ever seen.
How could this have happened? How could a tiny, voluntary group in one of the most civilized European countries grow to become one of the most feared, hated and reviled state terror organizations in the world? This book tells the story of the SS, of its beginnings, its expansion, its leaders, its eventual demise and the horrendous crimes that were committed by its members during its short history…
By the end of World War Two, just sixteen years later, more than one million men had served in the combat arm of the SS alone and the SS controlled almost every aspect of life in Germany and in the occupied parts of Europe and Russia.
Members of the SS ran Concentration and Death Camps where millions were murdered. SS combat troops massacred prisoners of war and civilians and SS doctors conducted some of the most horrifying medical experiments the world has ever seen.
How could this have happened? How could a tiny, voluntary group in one of the most civilized European countries grow to become one of the most feared, hated and reviled state terror organizations in the world? This book tells the story of the SS, of its beginnings, its expansion, its leaders, its eventual demise and the horrendous crimes that were committed by its members during its short history…
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102 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 15, 2017
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May 2, 2026
Those who have studied the actions and behavior of the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler during World War II are well aware of the brutality, human degradation, and lack of mercy for those whom the SS targeted not only before the war started, but throughout. The author brilliantly describes the many branches of the SS after it take over from the SA which proceeded it in the 1920s.
Additionally, several branches of the SS were responsible for the slaughter and rape of Russians, including their POW’s would have been captured by this collection of thugs. It is estimated that the SS was largely responsible for murdering approximately 1.4 million Russians between 1941 and 1945. But before the SS went to work on Russia, they dedicated themselves to the murder of as many Jews and poles in Poland. Hitler had told him that he wanted them all killed without any mercy or exception.
This book describes as well, the massacre of several French cities and towns. It also discusses not only the brutality in murder, but the medical experimentation carried out against Jews in the concentration and death camps of which there were more than 1200 throughout Germany, Poland, and several of the other conquered areas. Many of those murdered in these camps died from inhaling toxic gases, as well as starvation, and being worked to death.
Author William Myron Price states in his concluding chapter that the world should not ever forget what the SS did during World War II because it is possible that something like this could happen again.
Additionally, several branches of the SS were responsible for the slaughter and rape of Russians, including their POW’s would have been captured by this collection of thugs. It is estimated that the SS was largely responsible for murdering approximately 1.4 million Russians between 1941 and 1945. But before the SS went to work on Russia, they dedicated themselves to the murder of as many Jews and poles in Poland. Hitler had told him that he wanted them all killed without any mercy or exception.
This book describes as well, the massacre of several French cities and towns. It also discusses not only the brutality in murder, but the medical experimentation carried out against Jews in the concentration and death camps of which there were more than 1200 throughout Germany, Poland, and several of the other conquered areas. Many of those murdered in these camps died from inhaling toxic gases, as well as starvation, and being worked to death.
Author William Myron Price states in his concluding chapter that the world should not ever forget what the SS did during World War II because it is possible that something like this could happen again.
March 21, 2023
Quick insight of world war 2
Book gives you a good insight on world war 2.
Worth a read to remind us of the horrible act’s we human have done.
Book gives you a good insight on world war 2.
Worth a read to remind us of the horrible act’s we human have done.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews