Fourth printing: January 1973; Ballantine Books publishers, New York; softbound; very good condition of pages and covers.
 
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"Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, weapons book, No 8"
 
From their origin as a handful of men protecting Nazi political rallies, the SS and Gestapo grew to be the feared Police of the Master Race and subjected two-thirds of Europe to their organized tyranny. Under Himmler and Heydrich, these corps of "Aryan" elite administered the systematic genocide of European Jews and a reign of terror on all enemies of the Reich.