Need info on honorary SS members

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Excellent, thank you HPL!

Andreas is always right. The document, though, is from January 1934, and the Hein book describes the further evolution of this aspect of the SS in
the years after Roehm's purge and the SS coming into its own as an institution of the party state.

The new scholarship goes well beyond what was in the Hoehne book from fifty years ago about the elite integration and such.

It is an interesting theme, and as worthy of inquiry as the Waffen SS fan boy club.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

All hail Andreas for his wonderful skill as a reference genius and his magisterial gift as a linguist. He has a marvelous gift upon which we all rely.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

These things are the real source of knowledge, but they are often locked with seven seals. We are blessed that some here have the art and craft to unlock them.

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I am going to make up a quiz on basic, intermediate and advanced knowledge for this site.

I am sure it would bomb totally, in fact.

[Friedrich-Berthold]

There is a Princeton UP press study on the sociology of the SS from the late 1980s and early 1990s.

I will find a citation for it, but the Hein book is much better.


Germany's New Aristocracy:
The SS Leadership,1925-1939
Herbert F. Ziegler

Paperback | 2014 | $29.95 | £24.95 | ISBN: 9780691606361
Hardcover | 2016 | $74.95 | £62.95 | ISBN: 9780691635125
202 pp. | 6 x 9
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The first book-length presentation on the social origins of the prewar SS leadership, this volume offers a complete picture of the men who, between 1925 and 1939, joined the vanguard of National Socialism and rose to the rank of SS-Führer. Herbert Ziegler reveals that the Black Order was composed of people from all walks of life. Young Gymnasium and university graduates rubbed elbows with former gardeners, mechanics, and office clerks, while "old fighters" of the pre-1933 Nazi movement climbed the ladder of SS ranks alongside those who did not find their enthusiasm for Hitler's new order until after the Nazi seizure of power. Within the confines of Heinrich Himmler's new knighthood was created a people's community in microcosm, furnishing many a recruit a vehicle for upward social mobility. Moving beyond earlier explanations of who provided the support for National Socialism, Ziegler describes practices within the SS that were akin to a democracy of personnel selection and that resulted, by 1939, in a leadership corps characterized by social heterogeneity rather than homogeneity. Taking advantage of the detailed information contained in the thousands of SS personnel files located at the Berlin Document Center, and using the tools of statistical analysis, he also probes the connections between social reality and the ideological credos and promises of the Third Reich.

Originally published in 1990.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Reviews:

"Those interested in the officer corps of the Nazi SS will certainly be grateful to Professor Ziegler for his painstakingly statistical analysis of the three branches of the Schutzstaffel, Allgemeine SS, Totenkopf-Verbaende and Verfuegungstruppe.... The three-dimensional statistical representations are the clearest I have ever seen, and the printing job is also superior to a great deal of the current batch of academic works."--The Journal of Soviet Military Studies

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Princeton Legacy Library

Subject Area:

European History

[Friedrich-Berthold]

In lieu of the Hein book, the Ziegler is very good. Hein expands on the same line of argument.
The Ziegler book is in a new edition. I bought it at the time, just like I bought as many of all the other books of this type for decades.....