Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS Heinz Zollin Hohne
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf (Verlag der Spiegel, Hamburg, 1966), by Heinz Höhne; translated as The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Richard Barry, transl.) (Pan Books 1972). €Eicke viewed the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head unit) as an elite within the elite structure of the SS. At any given time, only about 600 or so members of the Order are alive, who are It was for this same reason that the death head was once the symbol of Hitler's SS (another group that may or may not just coincidentally also call themselves "the Brotherhood of Death"). One of the most elitist societies in history, Skull & Bones has only inducted about 2,500 members since its founding. The SS was the terror of Europe. Swearing eternal allegiance to Adolf Hitler, it infiltrated every aspect of German life and was responsible for the deaths of millions. Will could just as easily have argued that representative government, or elections themselves, aren't a sign of "civic health," given how they were misused and perverted by Hitler and his associates. By CNN National Security Producer Jennifer Rizzo The military's top brass went into damage control mode Friday after a picture of an elite Marine unit posing with a flag symbol that is similar to a Nazi "SS" logo surfaced on the Internet a day earlier. Do not fail to recognize the fundamental revisionist nature of the current German government's stance toward the history of the Sudeten Germans and the Volksdeutsche! Himmler joined the SS when it was still a bodyguard unit with no more than about three hundred members, and he marched with Hitler's men during the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, carrying the Reichskrieg flag. The Order of the Death's Head : The Story of Hitler's SS by Heinz Zollin Hohne. Beyond this, Gruppenfuehrer Fegelein, according to the Nazi witnesses whose story still forms the “official” version of the final events in the bunker, was executed under orders from Hitler, and yet his name is not crossed off the list. You might want to check out a historic novel “The Order of the Death's Head – The Story of Hitler's SS”, by Heinz Hohne (1966). The Topography memorial is built around the ruins of buildings where the Gestapo secret police, the SS and the Reich Security Main Office ran Hitler's police state from 1933 to 1945. The Waffen-SS, like today's marines, were fast lethal, and brutally efficient at what they do, even if it is dealing death. Eicke repeatedly pressed home his principles in orders, circulars and memoranda. In Nazi Germany, SS stood for "Schutzstaffel," the elite paramilitary force of Adolf Hitler's party. I watched yet another of the awesome History Channel exposes the other night: this one was about the infamous "Night of the Long Knives" in June, 1934, during which Hitler used his growing SS organization to destroy They succeeded in fatally wounding Heydrich with the gunshots and bomb, and he died eight days later from blood poisoning from the infected wounds -- shrapnel, pieces of the car upholstery, and even pieces of his own "death's head" SS uniform. This concept grew from the fact that the most dangerous political enemies of the state were incarcerated in the concentration camps and Hitler had given sole responsibility for guarding and running the camps to the SS- Totenkopfverbände.