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Bringing History to Life Collector’s Edition’ is a 180 page must read special issue packed with in depth WW2 historical information narrated as a story and illustrated with informative graphs and timelines. Readers interested in WW2 will not be disappointed.

The hate brigade

1939 World War II breaks out • For a long time Adolf Hitler had threatened Nazi Germany’s neighbouring countries. Austria and Czechoslovakia were taken without a fight, but it would not be as easy with Poland. The country was bigger and had also received pledges of support from both France and Britain.

HITLER'S BLACK GUARD • The SS were the elite of the Nazi movement right from its start in 1925. The corps’ members underwent rigorous training and Nazi indoctrination, ensuring blind obedience to Adolf Hitler. Even after the war was lost, they did not ask questions, but fought on with fanatical courage. The SS were responsible for countless mass murders.

Hitler's first mass murder • In 1934, Adolf Hitler is feeling so threatened by rivals in the Nazi party that he orders more than 80 murders. During the two bloody days, the Führer’s personal SS unit slaughters several old friends among the Stormtroopers – plus 10-20 generals and government politicians, who had criticised him.

Hitler Youth Cannon fodder for the Führer • Hitler wanted German youth to be as tough as leather and as hard as steel from Krupp. Therefore, he forced all of the country’s boys into the Hitler Youth, where millions of children were brainwashed and trained for battle. And when the war demanded it, Hitler sacrificed them without hesitation.

TERROR CAMPAIGN IN EUROPE • In 1929, Heinrich Himmler was appointed as the new head of the Nazi party’s security organisation, the SS. Under his leadership, the group grew into a feared elite force, which ruthlessly suppressed its enemies to realise Hitler’s dream of a new Aryan Germany.

NAZIS KIDNAP ARYAN CHILDREN • People with the right genes are in high demand in Hitler’s Germany and the Nazis will do everything possible to provide the Third Reich with blonde-haired and blue-eyed citizens. The party even kidnaps children from occupied countries and endorses non-marital sex.

HIMMLER’S OCCULT WORLD • Since World War II, rumours have spread about SS leader Heinrich Himmler’s obsession with the occult. Himmler was preoccupied with the idea of creating an SS cult and ordered the Reich’s scientists to the most remote corners of the world in search of the Aryans and the origin of the German people.

REINHARD HEYDRICH HITLER'S BLONDE EXECUTIONER • He was the grandson of an opera composer – and Hitler's absolute favourite. The ice-cold, Aryan, fencing virtuoso, Reinhard Heydrich, crushed all rivals and destroyed any resistance to Nazism. At the top of his career, he devised the “Final Solution” – the extermination of Europe's Jews.

THE HATE BRIGADE • Poachers, murderers and rapists are armed and placed in a special SS unit for hardened criminals. The bloodthirsty brigade – created by Heinrich Himmler and led by a sadistic sex offender – is unleashed in occupied territories across eastern Europe.

THE BUTCHER OF LYONS • Red-hot needles, whips and boiling water – the butcher Klaus Barbie’s sadistic methods knew no limits. Over two years he tortured thousands of Jews and opponents in the French city of Lyon. When the Allies freed the city, Barbie fled and found a new employer.

KZ GUARDS AT THE FRONT • The armoured Totenkopf Division was infamous throughout France, Poland and the Soviet Union due to its brutal methods and ultra-aggressive tactics. Part of the Waffen-SS, the division recruited soldiers and officers from Nazi concentration camps.

SS FORCE’S BOLD RAID • In 1943, Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini was deposed and...