History between the Lines
Jonathan Brown and a range of guests talk about all things history, especially those bits of the past which are obscure and generally unknown.
History between the Lines
The Waffen-SS
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Jonathan Brown
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Season 7
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Episode 14
As the SS seize control of Nazi Germany's security apparatus during the 1930s, they have ambitions to be the elite of the Third Reich and form a military branch to expand their influence and empire into the army.
This unit, known as the Military or Waffen-SS, soon forms into a brutal fighting force of fanaticism and they will go down in history as some of the worst war criminals society has ever created.
Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses", by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.
Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.