For many historians, the million French, Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian and Soviet citizens who served in the Waffen-SS were merely rank-and-file soldiers. Based on first-hand testimony and meticulous archival research across Europe, this history reveals that they were in fact hand-picked volunteers of ‘German blood’ who were fiercely antisemitic and anti-communist, and recruited by Heinrich Himmler as part of his plan for a SS-ruled ‘Aryan’ empire across Europe.
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'.
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https://www.psbooks.co.uk/hitler-s-foreign-executioners542563Hitler's Foreign Executionershttps://www.psbooks.co.uk/media/catalog/product/5/4/542563_media-0.jpg8.998.99GBPInStock/History/History/Military History/History/Military History/Categories/World War TwoFor many historians, the million French, Dutch, Belgian, Scandinavian and Soviet citizens who served in the Waffen-SS were merely rank-and-file soldiers. Based on first-hand testimony and meticulous archival research across Europe, this history reveals that they were in fact hand-picked volunteers of ‘German blood’ who were fiercely antisemitic and anti-communist, and recruited by Heinrich Himmler as part of his plan for a SS-ruled ‘Aryan’ empire across Europe.Paperback00https://www.psbooks.co.uk/media/catalog/product/5/4/542563_media-1.jpghttps://www.psbooks.co.uk/media/catalog/product/5/4/542563_media-2.jpgadd-to-cartrrp_info:£18.99productId:176494bic_code:HBTZ1, HBW, HBWQ, JPFQHBTZ1, HBW, HBWQ, JPFQ£18.99Christopher HaleGeneral234x154mmHistory PressYesPaperbackThe Holocaust
