The SS

War Documentary hosted by Stephen Rashbrook, published by ZDF in 2002 - English narration



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-- Original title: "Die SS - Eine Warnung der Geschichte"--

It was the epitome of terror. It carried out the mass murder. SS - the two letters in old Germanic rune script represent the most effective and dangerous instrument of power of the Nazi dictatorship.
The SS represented more than any other Nazi organisation the wild and deadly delusions of those who believed themselves part of the master race. It took only a few years for Hitler's Schutzstaffel to be transformed from an insignificant personal bodyguard to an all-powerful empire of evil.
The entire series makes use of original film material that had long been thought lost or destroyed. There are personal interviews with survivors and and with those men who served the inhuman SS system. Only now, as their lives draw to a close, are they prepared to speak up.
In the world's first television series on the overall history of the SS, this documentary series takes a balanced view with many previously unpublished sources and with witnesses to the history of the SS: victims, perpetrators and opponents.

A Story House Production for ZDF in Co-Operation with Channel 4 and History Channel

4)  Death's Head
This episode looks at the Death's Head Battalion, whose members were identified by the badge with a skull on the right lapel of their uniform. They underwent rigorous training to abolish every trace of human emotion and independent thought, leaving them willing tools of the unimaginable crimes committed in its name. Interviews with Nuremberg Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz; former Auschwitz inmate and author of People in Auschwitz Hermann Langbein; Holocaust survivors Heinz Junge, Kazimir Smolen, Helmuth Szprycer and Hans Frankenthal as well as SS men Hans Münch and Harry Seidel.

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Video Codec: XviD 1.1.0
Video Bitrate: 873 kbps
Video Resolution: 576x432
Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 128kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 48 min
Number Of Parts: 6
Part Size: 350 MB / average
Source: PDTV
Encoded by: JimDiGriz@alt.binaries.tv

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Source: https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=The_SS