SS ELITE

Opera in tre volumi che presenta una breve biografia di tutti gli alti ufficiali delle SS. Centinaia di foto in bianco e nero in ogni volume.

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• An astonishing piece of research and the author’s life’s work
• Part three of a three-part series
• Superbly illustrated with 794 unpublished mono photographs

In the turbulent times of the post-First World War era, new political parties emerged frequently in Germany, many with opposing extremist policies. The Communist movement grew out of the Socialist working classes using the Russian Bolshevik Party as a template. In direct opposition, the new National Socialist German Workers’ Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler occupied the extreme right-wing position. Head-on conflict was inevitable and both parties organised violent demonstrations against the other.

Hitler recognised that he was physically vulnerable and ordered the formation of his own protection squad, made up of loyal men who would not shirk from a fight. From the rudimentary ranks of Hitler’s select few grew the infant SS, a modern praetorian guard, which developed over the years into a massive and efficient military style force with tentacles spreading into all elements of everyday life in Nazi Germany. To administer this organisation, Hitler appointed leaders upon whom he could rely.

Many names remain obscure, but this book highlights who they all were and how they appeared.

Featured in this volume are:

Friedrich Rainer

Johann Baptist Albin Rauter

Friedrich Wilhelm Otto Rediess

Wilhelm Reinhard    

Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop

Erwin Friedrich Karl Rösener    

Ernst August Albert Sachs    

Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel

Paul Scharfe    

Julius Gregory Schaub    

Gustav Adolf Scheel    

Georg Friedrich Schlessmann    

Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser    

Walter Schmitt    

Julius Schreck    

Friedrich Bernhard Gustav Karl Ulrich Erich Graf von der Schulenburg    

Franz Xaver Schwarz    

Oskar Schwerk    

Arthur Seyss-Inquart    

Felix Martin Julius Steiner    

Wilhelm Stuckart    

Siegfried Louis Emanuel Taubert    

Fritz Wächtler    

Mathäus Karl Wahl    

Josias Georg Wilhelm Adolf Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont

Paul Wegener    

Friedrich Philip Weitzel    

Otto Ferdinand Nikolai Winkelmann    

Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff    

Udo Gustav Wihelm Egon von Woyrsch    

Alfred Bernhard Julius Ernst Wünnenberg