SS and Gestapo: Rule by Terror (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Weapons Book No. 8)

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From their origin as a handful of men protecting Nazi political rallies, the SS and Gestapo grew to be the feared Police of the Master Race and subjected two-thirds of Europe to their organized tyranny. Under Himmler and Heydrich, these corps of "Aryan" elite administered the systematic genocide of European Jews and a reign of terror on all enemies of the Reich.