Summary of Richard Rhodes's Masters of Death

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. #1 In 1941, a police academy in Pretzsch, a town on the Elbe River about fifty miles southwest of Berlin, became the site of a sinister assembly. Thousands of men from the SS, the Nazi Party’s Schutzstaffel, were ordered to report for training and assignment. They were not told what their assignment would be, but their commonalities suggested they would be sent to Russia. #2 By the spring of 1941, Poland had been decapitated.