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The SS: Alibi of a Nation 1922-1945
by Reitlinger, Gerald
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- vg
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Melbourne; London; Toronto: Heinemann, 1957. Second revised. Hardcover. vg. Large octavo. XI, [5], 502pp. Original printed dust-jacket over cloth with silver lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of Heinrich Himmler. Publisher's logo on title page. In this remarkable work, 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. This work is illustrated with 3 maps and numerous b/w photographic reproductions. Minor creasing along edges of dust-jacket. Price clipped. Dust-jacket in overall good to good+, binding and interior in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32884
- Title
- The SS: Alibi of a Nation 1922-1945
- Author
- Reitlinger, Gerald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second revised
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne; London; Toronto
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Nazi organizations, Nazi administration in the Third Reich, German military intelligence, Holocaust, Nazi persecution of Jews, Illustrated, Reference
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- VG
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- Title Page
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