Название: The SS Hunter Battalions: The Hidden History of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944-45
Автор: Perry Biddiscombe
Издательство: Tempus
ISBN: 0752439383
Год: 2006
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 448
Размер: 1,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Allies and the Soviets were the only side in the Second World War to support resistance movements. However, based on recently-released archival sources, "The SS Hunter Battalions" shows that Hitler had his own version of the SOE and the OSS, and that the Nazis too encouraged underground resistance against their enemies, especially as Europe was liberated in 1944-5. The Nazis tried to exploit the misguided activism of ex-collaborators, ethnic nationalists and rabid anti-communists, but their efforts were clumsy and they were hamstrung by the sordid reputation that they had gained as wartime occupiers.