Hitler''s Foreign Executioners: Europe''s Dirty Secret

In Hitlers Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmlers secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of Germanic peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of Asia, to build an SS Europa. This revised and fully updated book, researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand testimony, exposes Europes dirty secret: nearly half a million Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism.

Even today, some apologists claim that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers like any other and fought a decent war against Stalins Red Army. Historian Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmlers murderous master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they were worthy of joining his future SS Europa. But as the Reich collapsed in 1944, Himmlers monstrous scheme led to bitter confrontations with Hitler and to the downfall of the man once known as loyal Heinrich.