: Blood challenges the post-war myth of the "clean" Waffen-SS. He demonstrates that the combat units of the Waffen-SS were just as involved in these atrocities as the SS police units.
: The work portrays Heinrich Himmler not just as a bureaucrat, but as the active driving force behind these security campaigns, coordinating a vast enterprise of terror. Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Oc...
: Blood explains how the Nazis transitioned from traditional anti-partisan warfare ( Partisanenkrieg ) to "bandit fighting." By reclassifying resistance fighters and civilians as "bandits" rather than soldiers or political enemies, the regime justified extreme violence that was unconstrained by international laws of war. : Blood challenges the post-war myth of the