{"product_id":"hitlers-foreign-executioners-europes-dirty-secret-9781803990606","title":"Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven 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'. \u003cb\u003eBut 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'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803990606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464","brand":"Christopher Hale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43600278552757,"sku":"9781803990606","price":31.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5bce3971-99e6-46fc-9f8a-f54815e181af.jpg?v=1707206806","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/hitlers-foreign-executioners-europes-dirty-secret-9781803990606","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}