The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Classic Military History)
by Heinz Zollin Höhne
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Author: Heinz Zollin HöhneTranslator: Richard Barry
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-01
ISBN: 0141390123
Number of pages: 704
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary: 5 Stars
This is a staggering work. A monumental historical effort that ranks as the singular history of Hitler's SS by which any other would have to measured. It is nearly 600 pages and very dense. Perhaps at points you will get lost in the names, places or detail but the major figures and pivotal moments in the development of this terror machine are quite clear. The book is absolutely thorough, fastidiously researched and annotated.
Hohne is adept at illuminating the forces, dynamics, motives, backgrounds and personalities that, albeit at turns accidental, bureaucratic and chaotic, created and led the SS. The SS was a killing machine, blindly loyal to the state as epitomized by Hitler. It was led by ruthless, despicable, ambitious, little men; calculating and cold. They weren't noble, intelligent, admirable or influential. In any other context they would have been comic and pathetic, with their bumbling, fawning ambition.
While this work is not gory it is chilling and frightening because you can easily discern the same forces at work today in individuals, nation states, movements, idealogies and prejudices. Throw together another frustrated despot, add in a few technocrats and psychopathic criminals, along with a herd of vacuous citizens - and perhaps there is only six degrees of separation between us and them.
Therein lies the residual value for posterity of Hohne's critical work.
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