Believe and Destroy: Intellectuals in the SS War Machine

by Christian Ingrao

Book Overview

There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party's elite protection unit, the SS. They theorized and planned the extermination of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745660266
• ISBN13: 9780745660264
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.3"