Ep 08 - Schutzstaffel - The Black Order (2)

tells the complete history of the SS, from a small paramilitary formation to one of the largest and most powerful organizations in the Nazi Germany.
They were the Nazi elite, the party Praetorian Guard, with personnel selected on the principles of racial purity and unconditional loyalty to Hitler. This is the story of the black uniformed Allgemeine-SS, which was the political wing of the SS, the military wing, the Waffen-SS, which evolved into a second German army within the Wehrmacht.