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1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 min. 25 sec.) ; 305853944 bytes |
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The SS, symbol of terror and genocide 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 or 'protective echelon' to be transformed from an insignificant personal bodyguard to an all-powerful institution that tortured and murdered without the slightest compunction. The SS includes personal accounts from victims of the SS as well as testimony from former SS soldiers themselves, who only now, as their lives draw to a close, are prepared to speak up.The rise of the SS began with the murder of Ernst Roehm, the man who led the SA, the Nazi organisation of storm troopers. This murder was carried out on Hitler's orders and heralded a wave of terror during which prominent opponents of the regime were eliminated. Thereafter, the SS was firmly established as the supreme tool of the regime's terror-apparatus. (From Germany, in Germany, English subtitles) (Part 1) |
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Broadcast 2011-04-19 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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Mass murder.
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Murder -- Religious aspects.
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Nazis.
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Soldiers -- Conduct of life.
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Rome.
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Streaming video
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Afflerbach, Jens, director
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Brauner, Artur, contributor
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Cruger, Herbert, contributor
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Evans, Albert, contributor
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Fischach, Hans, contributor
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Giordano, Ralph, contributor
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Girgenson, Jurgen, contributor
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Gritschneder, Otto, contributor
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Held, Wolfgang, contributor
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Hohne, Heinz, contributor
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Kasza, Peter, director
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Krotz, Robert, contributor
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Kumm, Otto, contributor
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Kuntze-Fechner, Hannes, contributor
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Mertens, Emmy, contributor
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Munch, Hans, contributor
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Riedweg, Franz, contributor
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Schuller, Helmut, contributor
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Stephan, Rita, contributor
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von Schleicher, Lonny, contributor
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Weisskopf, Renate, contributor
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Wimmer-Lamquet, Reinhard, contributor
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Zander, Josef, contributor
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Zelionka, Petras, contributor
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