When the SS Tried to Save Themselves

As the Reich collapsed, SS officers abandoned their ideology for survival.
Some destroyed evidence, others fled in disguise, and many turned on one another.

This episode uncovers the hidden networks, fake identities, and desperate flights of the SS during the final days of the war.

📚 Sources
• Höhne, The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS (1969)
• Padfield, Himmler: Reichsführer-SS (1990)
• Weale, The SS: A New History (2010)
• Westermann, Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (2005)
• Longerich, Himmler: A Life (2012)

#WWII #SS #NaziGermany #Escape #HistoryDocumentary

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