Building a Nazi Europe : the SS's Germanic volunteers / Martin R. Gutmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
"This book examines the phenomenon of Germanic volunteers to the SS through the stories of the neutral volunteers to the Waffen-SS leadership corps...those who became officers or assumed other positions of responsibility...as well as the SS institutions they worked for. Though many of the hundr...
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| Główni autorzy: | Gutmann, Martin R., 1979- |
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| Format: | Książka |
| Język: | English |
| Wydane: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 |
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| Dostęp online: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Streszczenie: | "This book examines the phenomenon of Germanic volunteers to the SS through the stories of the neutral volunteers to the Waffen-SS leadership corps...those who became officers or assumed other positions of responsibility...as well as the SS institutions they worked for. Though many of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought for the Nazi regime were likely coerced into joining by the occupying Germans, this book focuses on volunteers from countries outside of Germany's control...Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark...thereby eliminating coercion or propaganda as explanations for their decisions to volunteer. Unlike non-Germanic volunteers who were given a lower status within the Waffen-SS or came under the command of the German army, volunteers from the Germanic countries were fully integrated into the Waffen-SS and were simultaneously members of the elite SS umbrella organization.^ |
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| Deskrypcja: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Opis fizyczny: | xvi, 237 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781107155435 9781316608944 |
