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Hitler created the SS in 1925 as a private army that would be loyal to him to the death. The young German volunteers, who joined the SS, dreamed of joining the Third Reich’s racial elite. Submitted to intense propaganda and put in charge of the Reich’s concentration camps, these fanatical activists would soon become criminals, jailing communists, Jews, and all real and imagined enemies of National Socialism.
Nov-21 7:30pm SBS World Movies: The Last Vermeer
While Joseph Piller, a Dutch Jew, was fighting in the Resistance during the Second World War, the debonair art connoisseur Han van Meegeren was selling Dutch art to Hermann Goring and other Nazis. Read more
Dec-29 11:20pm SBS-TV: Uri Geller’s Secret Treasures
Uri Geller, the man who bends spoons, reads minds, and can stop your watch. Read more
Apr-25 11:45pm SBS-TV: Auschwitz – One Day
This documentary tells the story of a typical day in 1944 in the ‘death factory’ at Auschwitz from the viewpoint of victims – but it also allows insights into the mindset of the perpetrators. Read more
