The SS: A Layman's Guide - What's in the book?
- Scott Addington
- Jul 22
- 2 min read
So what’s actually covered in the book? It's a fair question.
Below is the full chapter list for The SS: A Layman’s Guide. Think of it as a roadmap through one of the most disturbing organisations in history. From the paper-pushers to the war criminals, from the cult-like ideology to the cold mechanics of murder, every chapter aims to break things down clearly and in plain language.
If you’ve ever wanted to truly understand the SS - how it started, how it operated, and how it tried to survive even after the war - this is your guide.
Freikorps Foundations
Genesis: Saalschutz, Stabswache & Stosstrupp-Hitler
Putsch
Die Blutfahne: The Blood Flag
Reichsführer-SS
Half Teacher, Half Sadist: Heinrich Himmler
Himmler’s Quest for Athleticism
Siegrunes
Black, The Mask You Wear: SS Uniform
Brownshirt Bullies: The SA
The Blood Purge: Operation Hummingbird
Consolidation & Organisation
Bis in den Tod: The SS Oath
SS Recruitment
Junkerschulen
Blutgruppentätowierung: The Blood Tattoo
The SS Family
Making Babies: Lebensborn
Ahnenerbe: Mystic Science for a Master Race
SS-Verfügungstruppe
The Suits Behind the Skulls: The Allgemeine SS
Killing Is Our Business: WVHA
Gestapo
The Butcher of Lyon: Nikolaus Barbie
Members Only: The SS-Ehrenführers
Intellectual Gangster: Alfred Naujocks
A Choreographed Purge: Operation Tannenberg
Superiority Personified: Blitzkrieg in the West
Le Paradis
Wormhoudt
The Black Book: Sonderfahndungsliste G.B.
Foreign Expansion: Wiking
Himmler’s Dutch Poster Boy: Gerardus Mooijman
SS-GB: Britisches Freikorps
French Fascists: Charlemagne
Holocaust by Bullets: Einsatzgruppen
Babi Yar
The Man With the Iron Heart: Reinhard Heydrich
Das Konferenz: Wannsee
Grossaktion: Warsaw 1943
Operation Anthropoid
Lidice
Anthropoid's Last Stand
A Daring Attack, Completely Beyond all Foresight: Operation Eiche
A Very Difficult Subject: The Posen Speech, October 1943
Camps
Himmler's Helpers: SS-Helferinnenkorps
Beautiful Beasts: SS-Aufseherinnen
Policing the SS: Hauptamt SS Gericht
Auschwitz: The Meaning of Pain
Mengele: Angel of Death
Symphony of Destruction: Aktion Erntefest
Monsters of Men: SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger
Uprising: Warsaw 1944
RONA: The Kaminski Brigade
Rome Bleeds: Via Rasella and the Ardeatine Massacre
Das Reich on the Rampage: Oradour sur Glane
Massacre at Malmedy
SS Werewolves
In the Dock: The SS on Trial
Run Devil Run: Ratlines
The SS Lives On: HIAG
The Final Word: Never Again
The SS: A Layman's Guide is released on 23rd July on Amazon sites worldwide for the very special Kindle launch price of 99p / 99c.
