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How the Waffen-SS trained Hitler’s most fanatical soldiers

The Waffen-SS was built through a combination of harsh military training, relentless ideological indoctrination, and absolute loyalty to Adolf Hitler. At elite SS-Junker schools, recruits endured ...
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The general who ignored Hitler and saved three elite SS divisions

As Soviet forces closed around Kharkov in 1943, Adolf Hitler demanded that German troops hold their positions regardless of ...