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The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945

The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945

By Gerald Reitlinger

Viking, 1957, 502 pp.

An able, scholarly and full history of the principal instrument of Nazi terror. As the subtitle indicates, the author does not accept the theory that the S.S. alone was responsible for or aware of the atrocities of the Hitler era.