Output details
30 - History
University of Chichester
Book title
Un Suisse au service de la SS : Franz Riedweg, 1907-2005
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Editions Alphil - Presses Universitaires Suisses
ISBN of book
978-2940235599
Year of publication
2010
URL
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Number of additional authors
-
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
“This book presents the life of the Swiss Franz Riedweg, who rose up the ranks of the SS as a personal protégé of Heinrich Himmler, and became responsible for the recruitment of non-German Germanic Waffen-SS volunteers and the SS’ Germanic policy. In 1944, after being disowned by Himmler, he was transferred to the Eastern Front, where he spent the rest of the war. Despite legal proceedings against Riedweg in both Switzerland and Germany after the war, he was able to re-enter civilian life as a respected medical doctor, and to remain politically active within circles of Europe’s extreme right.”
