Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret
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In Hitler’s Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler’s secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of ‘Germanic’ peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an ‘SS Europa’. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europe’s dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism.
Even today, some apologists claim that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers ‘like any other’ and fought a decent war against Stalin’s Red Army. Historian Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmler’s murderous master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they were worthy of joining his future ‘SS Europa’. But as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmler’s monstrous scheme led to bitter confrontations with Hitler – and to the downfall of the man once known as ‘loyal Heinrich’.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very thoroughly researched and interesting book. As it is a dark topic, however, it does not lend itself to bedtime reading. The protagonists involved are characterised in detail and well referenced throughout. It was frankly shocking to see the extent of physical collaboration in WW2 in the actual final solution by people from throughout countries who were subsumed into the German Reich. Hale as an author is clearly motivated to expose and highlight the appalling hypocrisy of what happened after the end of the War when many collaborators were able to take up new lives with either the US/UK or USSR Governments in a Cold War world. In addition he is keen to highlight that those who enlisted in the SS and fought against Russia on the Eastern Front did not do so solely for those reasons but also participated in many atrocities which they are keen to hide particularly in Baltic countries such as Latvia. To my mind he has published a good book and gotten his arguments across well.