Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy: The SS Leadership,1925-1939

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The first book-length presentation on the social origins of the prewar SS leadership, this volume offers a complete picture of the men who, between 1925 and 1939, joined the vanguard of National Socialism and rose to the rank of SS-Fuhrer. Herbert Ziegler reveals that the Black Order was composed of people from all walks of life. Young Gymnasium an

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"Those interested in the officer corps of the Nazi SS will certainly be grateful to Professor Ziegler for his painstakingly statistical analysis of the three branches of the Schutzstaffel, Allgemeine SS, Totenkopf-Verbaende and Verfuegungstruppe... The three-dimensional statistical representations are the clearest I have ever seen, and the printing job is also superior to a great deal of the current batch of academic works."--The Journal of Soviet Military Studies