About the book: 2000 / Nick Worwohl is the literary pseudonym of a famous Germanist and translator. The book “SS Troops. Bloody Trail" is a successful attempt to lift the veil of secrecy over one of the most sinister military-political organizations of the 20th century. The history of the SS began with two people. By the end of World War II, the total number of NSDAP security detachments exceeded a million SS men. The SS turned into the 4th component of the Wehrmacht. Nick Worwohl's new book covers in detail such broad topics as the ideology of the SS, the symbolism of the SS, the structure of the SS, the combat operations of the armed SS formations on the fronts of the 2nd World War. SS - the whistle of the deadly flesh-cutting whip and the hiss of an angry snake. The lightning-like stroke of the SS runes crossed out the destinies and lives of millions of people. Europe shook in paroxysms of pain and despair under the boots of the Waffen SS marching standards. They passed through the continent with fire and sword, sowing pain, death, destruction and fear... The complex, powerful structure of the SS, fine-tuned like the mechanism of a Swiss chronometer, has always attracted the attention of researchers studying the history of the Third Reich. The ominous double “lightning bolts” in the buttonholes of the SS men became a symbol of inhumanity for all people of good will. The world shuddered upon learning of the atrocities committed behind the façade of the Third Reich; there is and cannot be an excuse for them…