Avenues for Further Learning

Blood, Philip W. Hitler’s Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2008.

Browder, George C. Hitler’s Enforcers: The Gestapo and the SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Fischer, Klaus P. Nazi Germany: A New History. New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1995.

Grunberger, Richard. Hitler’s SS. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1970.

Hoffmann, Peter. Hitler's Personal Security: Protecting the Führer, 1921-1945. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979.

Hölne, Heinz Zollin. The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS. Trans. Richard Barry. London: Penguin Press, 2000.

O’Donnell, James P. The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

Reitlinger, Gerald. The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945. New York: Da Capo Press, 1989.

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Touchstone, 1959.

Sydnor, Charles W. Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death’s Head Division, 1933-1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Time-Life Books, eds. The SS. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books Inc., 1988.

Wegner, Bernd. The Waffen-SS: Organization, Ideology, and Function. Trans. Ronald Webster. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Weingartner, James J. Hitler’s Guard: The Story of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 1933-1945. Nashville, Tenn.: Battery Classics, 1989.

Williamson, Gordon. The SS: Hitler’s Instrument of Terror. Osceola, Wis.: MBI Publishing Company, 2004.