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The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945 Paperback - 1989

by Gerald Reitlinger


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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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  • Title The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945
  • Author Gerald Reitlinger
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
  • Date 1989-03-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780306803512 / 0306803518
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.7 x 1.23 in (20.78 x 14.48 x 3.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany - Politics and government - 1933-1945, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88033477
  • Dewey Decimal Code 943.086

About the author

Gerald Reitlinger (1900-1978) wrote three books on Nazi Germany, including The Final Solution and The House Built on Sand.
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