Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe

In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia. The directive for "combating banditry" (Bandenbekampfung) became the third component of the Nazi regime's three-part strategy for German national security, with genocide (Endlosung der Judenfrage, or "the Final Solution of the Jewish Question") and slave labor (Erfassung, or "Registration of Persons to Hard Labor") being the better-known others. An original and thought-provoking work grounded in extensive research in German archives, "Hitler's Bandit Hunters" focuses on this counterinsurgency campaign, the anvil of Hitler's crusade for empire.

Author: Philip W. Blood
Publisher: Potomac
Extra Details: Pictorial Card Covers 6 x 9 inches tall, 400 Pages, Illustrated with B&W photos.