Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe

by Philip W. Blood

Book Overview

In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for "combating banditry" (Bandenbek mpfung), became the third component of the Nazi regime's three-part strategy for German national security, with genocide (Endl sung der Judenfrage, or "the Final...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159797157X
• ISBN13: 9781597971577
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"