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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 54 sec.) ; 314556348 bytes |
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The SS represented more than any other Nazi organisation the wild and deadly delusions of those who believed themselves part of the master race. It took only a few years for Hitler's Schutzstaffel to be transformed from an insignificant personal bodyguard to an all-powerful empire of evil. Part two of this six-part series looks at Heinrich Himmler, the most powerful man in the Third Reich after Hitler. The SS expanded rapidly under Himmler's efficient leadership and soon cast a black shadow over Germany. Himmler chose the castle of Wewelburg in Westphalia as the centre of the SS cult, and invented a glorious historical past and a pseudo-religion. Eyewitness accounts include SS doctor Ernst Guenther Schreck, former concentration camp inmate Max Hollweg, former German army officer Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Himmler's personal staff member Gabriele Winckler and Florentine Rost van Tonningen who was a friend of Himmler's and the wife of an SS officer. (From Germany, in Germany, English subtitles) (Part 2) |
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Broadcast 2011-04-26 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Children and war.
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Concentration camp inmates.
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Mass murder.
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Soldiers -- Conduct of life.
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Germany -- Berlin.
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Germany -- Westphalia.
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Streaming video
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Bormann, Martin, contributor
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Brunstein, Esther, contributor
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Deick, Christian, director
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Frank, Niklas, contributor
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Goldmann, Gereon, contributor
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Gunther Schenck, Ernst, contributor
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Himmler, Heinrich, contributor
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Hollweg, Max, contributor
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Junge, Gertraud, contributor
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Katz, Zvi, contributor
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Kersten, Andreas, contributor
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Krotz, Robert, contributor
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Muller, Heinz, contributor
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Riedweg, Franz, contributor
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Riegner, Gerhart, contributor
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Ritchie, David, cast
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Rosenblum, Joshua, contributor
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Schafer, Ingeburg, contributor
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Scherer, Friedrich, director
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Skrzypek, Jerzy, contributor
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Twardecki, Alojzy, contributor
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van Tonningen, Florentine Rost, contributor
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von der Heyde, Annette, director
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von Loringhoven, Bernd Freytag, contributor
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Winckler, Gabriele, contributor
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Wolff, Karl von, contributor
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