The Nazi Murder Machine: 13 Portraits in Evil

by Ben Stevens · 2014

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'...We are barbarians - pitiless... The world can only be ruled by fear...' So declared Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany. A leader of millions, served by men and women of such appalling savagery, such merciless evil, that they make the words 'barbarians' and 'pitiless' seem all but redundant. This book features 13 such 'servants of Hitler'. Included are names almost as infamous as Hitler's own - Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels - yet also the cowardly, but wholly sadistic Irma Grese (female guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp, in sole charge of some 30,000 inmates) and Bruno Tesch, one of the owners of the pest-control company Tesch and Stabenow, who amassed a fortune through the sale of the Zyclon-B gas crystals, used in the concentration camp gas chambers, to the Nazis.

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war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of this
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HolocaustHolocaustMore like thisLess of this
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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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