Beyond the Myth: The SS Unveiled63%
The SS was the Nazi state’s instrument of domination and oppression, responsible for the intelligence services and the police. The SS committed a horrific range of atrocities, including the Holocaust, the persecution of political opponents, and brutal war crimes. Millions of people were victims of the Schutzstaffel, and many of the perpetrators were unrepentant to the end. This six-part documentary provides a comprehensive overview of the SS, describing how a small group of thugs rose to become the most feared organ in the Nazi state. With the help of international experts, the film examines common myths about the organisation. Interviews with eyewitnesses and unapologetic perpetrators take us closer to the psyche of the SS supporters in an attempt to make the inconceivable comprehensible.
Season 1
- 1 From the “Protection Squadron“ to the SS State The first episode traces the rise to power of the SS: from their ascent in the Weimar Republic to their establishment within the Nazi regime to their role in the first concentrati…
- 2 Heinrich Himmler SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler is the focus of the second episode. An agriculturalist by training, he went on to lead the SS – and tried to escape responsibility at the end of t…
- 3 The Executioner: Reinhard Heydrich This episode focuses on Reinhard Heydrich. The leader of the Reich Security Main Office and Deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia was a careerist. An orchestrator of mass …
- 4 The Waffen-SS The fourth episode focuses on the Waffen SS. Nazi propaganda painted them as a military elite, intended to attract the best German soldiers. The fact that foreigners were later al…
- 5 The SS Death Head’s Unit The fifth episode casts a light on the infamous Totenkopfverbände or “Death Head Units” of the SS. They were guards at the concentration camps, torturing and murdering prisoners o…
- 6 Unrepentant: The SS and its myth after 1945 The sixth episode draws a line to the present. The myth of the SS has lived on after 1945. Many Nazi perpetrators fled to exile unscathed with the help of the Vatican or the US in…
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