Useful Fact Books

SS

The Black Corps - The structure and power struggles of the Nazi SS
(Hardcover) 437 pages - Printed 1983
By: Robert Lewis Koehl

Price: 52,00 € - Available
A few notes inside, lightly worn dustcover,
otherwise good condition!

This is a one of the best fact/reference books about the German SS.
The author did a huge research going through personnel records of SS officers in Berlin document center back in the sixties.
A very useful reference matter with interesting structure diagrams, maps and notes is included in this original first edition.
The book is must for people with a genuine interest in the terms and structure about the different branches of the complex organization SS.
This is the first edition and it's out of print since long.

The Order of the death's head - The story of Hitler's SS
(Paperback) 690 pages
By: Heinz Höhne

Price: 22,00 € - Available
very good condition! like new!

"Höhnes masterpiece is a very useful reference for people with a genuine interest in the different branches of the complex organization SS.

The Waffen SS -Organization, ideology and function
(Hardcover) 428 pages - printed 1990
By: Bernd Wegner (Translated by Ronald Webster)

-Not Available at the moment

This is IMO the best reference book so far regarding the organization and structure of the Waffen SS.
This book is a comprehensive study of the military wing of the SS, one of the central organizations of the Nazi state, from its inception to Germany's capitulation.
This book is very hard to find but I will hopefully listed it as soon as I get my hands on another copy.

The Nazi Secret Service-
(Hardcover) 320 pages - printed 1974
By: André Brissaud (Translated by Milton Waldman)

-Not Available at the moment

This book is all about the German Secret service Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and it's mission from the beginning to the end as the unique and mighty secret service of the Third Reich.
The author meet Walter Schellenberg (head of the SD - Ausland) a short time before hi died in Italy 1952 and some of the material is based on the interviews he had with Schellenberg.
This is a very interesting book that gives the reader a good understanding to the SD as organization and their leader (Heydrich) as well as the people who worked around him.

This book is hard to find but I will hopefully listed it as soon as I get my hands on another copy.

Walter Schellenberg - The memoirs of Hitler's spymaster
(Hardcover) 479 pages - printed 2006
By: Walter Schellenberg (Edited and Translated by Louis Hagan)

-Not Available at the moment

This book is written by Walter Schellenberg the head of the SD - Ausland. I really enjoy to read books written about people who actually were there and this guy was one of Heydrich closest men so who can give the reader the inside story better than Schellenberg? This book gives you a different view on historical event regarding the SS and SD and together with The Nazi Secret Service by Andre Brissaud you can hardly find a more interesting read.

This book is released 2006 in U.K so there should not be any problem for europeans to find a copy.

 

 

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