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Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-best-selling Killing series.

As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including the notorious SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Others, however, evaded capture through a sophisticated Nazi organization designed to hide them. Among those war criminals were Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death” who performed hideous medical experiments at Auschwitz; Martin Bormann, Hitler’s brutal personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, the cruel "Butcher of Lyon"; and perhaps the most awful Nazi of all: Adolf Eichmann.

Killing the SS is the epic saga of the espionage and daring waged by self-styled "Nazi hunters". This determined and disparate group included a French husband and wife team, an American lawyer who served in the army on D-Day, a German prosecutor who had signed an oath to the Nazi Party, Israeli Mossad agents, and a death camp survivor. Over decades, these men and women scoured the world, tracking down the SS fugitives and bringing them to justice, which often meant death.

Written in the fast-paced style of the Killing series, Killing the SS will educate and stun the listener. The final chapter is truly shocking.

©2018 Henry Holt (P)2018 Macmillan Audio
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The only murder here is the German language! Some of the pronunciations are laughable; it is not a scholarly work. I had hoped that there would be more information on the less well known Nazis who “got away” but all of the information here is well known and little is added to the ongoing narrative of Nazi hunting. However, it reminds one of some of the most evil people of all time.

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Bill O'Reilly has a passionate voice, perfect rythm and pause. Important subject of human evil.

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The killing series had me enticed through Bill O'Reilly's strong delivery of the stories and evidence available of its subject matter, so it was no wonder the only one in his series that he narrates would be on the most vile group in history.
This was truly an interesting topic as there were some names in Nazi Germany I wasn't familiar with. While the timeframe of events keeps steady some stories did throw me off when different names were butted back in, but I did piece it together afterwards.
Overall, a solid entry to start with but it'll be hard to choose from.

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