Hitler's Jihadis: Muslim Volunteers Of The Waffen-Ss (Hitler's Legions) - Softcover

Trigg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752465864 ISBN 13: 9780752465869

Verlag: The History Press, 2012

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Book by Trigg Jonathan

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By the end of the Second World War there were soldiers of more than thirty different nationalities in the Waffen-SS, and Reich Germans themselves were in the minority. How did a regime that believed so completely in the racial superiority of its population come to welcome hundreds of thousands of foreigners into its military elite? Who were these foreign SS men, and why did they fight so long and so hard for such a murderous regime? Hitler's Jihadis provides an analysis of some of the most intriguing and controversial of these foreign volunteers - the thousands of Muslims, from as far away as India who wore the SS double lightning flashes alongside their erstwhile conquerors. Jonathan Trigg gives an insight into the pre-war politics that inspired these Islamic volunteers, who for the most part would not survive. Those who did survive the war and the bloody retribution that followed saw the reputation of the units in which they had served berated as militarily inept and castigated for atrocities against unarmed civilians. Using first-hand accounts and official records, Hitler's Jihadis peels away the propaganda to reveal the complexity that lies at the heart of the story of Hitler's most unlikely `Aryans'.

Biografía del autor:

Jonathan Trigg is the author of "Hitler's Flemish Lions," "Hitler's Gauls," and "Hitler's Vikings."

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• Verlag: The History Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0752465864
• ISBN 13: 9780752465869
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256