Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret

Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret by Hale, Christopher. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780752459745.

How and why more than one million non-Germans joined Hitlers "war of annihilation" Revealing for the first time Heinrich Himmlers master plan for Europe, this book discusses his dream of an SS empire with 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 to build an "SS Europa." This book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europes dirty secret—that nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich—to fight a crusade against "Jewish-Bolshevism." No other historian has examined the connections between these SS "foreign legions" (both police and Waffen-SS) and the Holocaust. Even today, some apologists claim that the foreign volunteers were merely soldiers "like any other" and fought a decent war against Stalins Red Army. Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken.